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The donation brings a legal battle with the city of Chicago to an end, after Smollett allegedly staged a hate crime in 2019.

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Cuomo also proposed a city-run scholarship fund that would offer a full ride to officers without a bachelor’s degree. Sweetening the pay — which would cost $250 million over five years — and offering other perks would help the city hire 5,000 more police officers, Cuomo said. “It’s time to build a new New York City based on what we are dealing with and what we’ve learned,” Cuomo said. The former governor also devoted a significant portion of his press briefing to attacking Mamdani and poring over the state legislator’s past support for defunding the police. Mamdani has said during his campaign he would maintain funding for the department while creating a new Department of Community Safety that would handle tasks like mental health emergencies. “Either you were telling the truth then or you’re telling the truth now, but you cannot justify those two statements,” Cuomo said. 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