Retired Port Authority officers demand Mamdani, Hochul skip 9/11 Ground Zero ceremony

The 9/11 attacks killed 37 Port Authority police officers and 47 other Port Authority employees, with ongoing impact on victims' families and survivors.

As the 25th anniversary of September 11 approaches, a group of retired Port Authority police officers — who lost 37 colleagues in the attacks — has formally asked New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul to absent themselves from the Ground Zero commemoration, arguing that their presence would deepen rather than heal the wounds of that day. The request, rooted in grief and a fierce sense of custodianship over sacred ground, raises a question as old as public mourning itself: who has the right to stand beside the dead, and who decides? Both officials have declined to step aside,

Retired Port Authority officers demand Mamdani, Hochul skip 9/11 Ground Zero ceremony

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