AOC endorses candidate for NYC mayor

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed a candidate ahead of the June 22 Democratic primary election for mayor of New York City.

Maya Wiley, the former counsel to the city’s current mayor, Bill de Blasio, and an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Education Fund “has been dedicating her life” to social justice, Ocasio-Cortez told supporters on Saturday.