NYPD denies that it will provide a police security escort for Rama Duwaji, the wife of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, during an upcoming trip to Syria and Lebanon. The dispute centers on whether the department will assign personnel to accompany her, with the mayor’s office and NYPD offering competing accounts.
Fox News and The New York Post report that City Hall previously said the NYPD “strongly” recommended that Duwaji be accompanied by officers. The NYPD’s position, according to the outlets, is that it does not send officers to those countries as part of such details. After the denial, Mamdani’s team points to internal confusion and attributes the discrepancy to staff communication.
Across the coverage, the main difference is how each outlet frames responsibility and the certainty of the claim. Both describe the same underlying timeline: an asserted security arrangement by the mayor’s office, followed by a public NYPD denial and subsequent clarification from City Hall staff.
