Dianne Morales: ‘I don’t think New York City is as progressive as we’d like to think’

The former non-profit executive, who would be the city's first female mayor, goes the furthest of her competitors in wanting to defund the police

It's a blustery day in the New York city neighborhood of Astoria, Queens, where the mayoral candidate Dianne Morales is due to speak to the crowd.

By the time she arrives, the pitching of Morales' tent, branded in her colors of purple, pink and orange, has already been abandoned due to the wind, and volunteers have been sent sprinting across Astoria park to retrieve hundreds of white campaign pamphlets sent flying across the grass.