Bloomberg says black neighborhoods are 'where the real crime is' in newly surfaced audio
Posted on AllSides February 11th, 2020
From The Right
Comments came as he defended NYPD 'stop and frisk' policy.
A newly surfaced audio recording of Michael Bloomberg in 2015 defending the racially controversial police tactic of “stop and frisk” went viral on Tuesday just as voters headed to the polls in New Hampshire’s presidential primary.
In the recording of a speech that the former New York City mayor gave at the Aspen Institute, Mr. Bloomberg is heard saying that the way to confiscate guns from young black males is to “throw them up against the walls and frisk them.”...
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