Bloomberg faces new backlash over 2015 remarks defending police targeting of black and Latino men
A recording of Bloomberg’s comments in 2015 to nearly 400 people in Aspen, Colo., have been posted online for five years, but began circulating widely this week on social media.
“Ninety-five percent of your murders and murderers and victims fit one M.O.,” Bloomberg told the Aspen Institute audience. “You can just take the description, Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops: They are male, minorities, 16 to 25. That’s true in New York. It’s true in virtually every city.”
An unintended consequence of frisking young black and Latino males, he continued, is people saying, “Oh, my God, you are arresting kids for marijuana that are all minorities.”
“Yes, that’s true,” Bloomberg said. “Why? Because we put all the cops in minority neighborhoods. Yes, that’s true. Why do we do it? Because that’s where all the crime is.” One of the ways to get guns from those who are stopped, he added, “is to throw them against the wall and frisk them.”
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-02-11/bloomberg-police-stop-frisk-minorities-presidential-campaign