Woke NYC congressional favorite avoids answer on imprisoning murderers

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54% : Darializa Avila Chevalier, 32, won this week's Democratic primary for the Big Apple's 13th congressional district on a far-left socialist platform, with some of her most extreme views drawing mounting scrutiny.
46% : Among the Democratic Socialist-backed candidate's stated beliefs is abolishing police and prisons entirely, and she once declared that she hopes to see 'no more police at all, ever' in society.
38% : Darializa Avila Chevalier, 32, a socialist who won this week's Democratic primary for New York's 13th congressional district, is facing backlash after she refused to answer whether she believes murderers should be imprisoned The socialist, who is backed by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, has faced scrutiny for some extreme views, including wanting to abolish all prisons and police, get rid of the border, and seizing all properties from landlords and handing them to the government 'I work at a public defender's office where most of our clients are incredibly poor black and brown New Yorkers.
38% : Chevalier (pictured being handcuffed by an NYPD officer during an anti-Israel protest in April 2026) skirted the question several times when pressed over what she would do with murderers Social media posts from 2019 shared by Chevalier resurfaced during the campaign, including one where she ranted about interracial relationships and called white women 'ugly colonizers' '

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