Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forum#BloombergIsRacist Trends As Second Resurfaced Clip Shows Dem Candidate Saying...
Democratic presidential candidate and billionaire businessman Mike Bloomberg is under fire after two clips of him defending his highly controversial "stop and frisk" policing strategy have circulated on social media, with the hashtag #BloombergIsRacist trending on Twitter.
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But the former mayor's record on championing a policing policy that disproportionately targeted minorities has angered many voters. Although the billionaire apologized for the policy before launching his campaign, the resurfaced clips show that he was ardently defending "stop and frisk" as recently as a few years ago.
"They just keep saying it's a disproportionate percentage of a particular ethnic group. That may be, but it's not a disproportionate percentage of those who witnesses and victims describe as committing the murder," the wealthy businessman, with an estimated net worth of $60 billion, said in a 2013 interview with WOR. "In that case incidentally, I think we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little."
Those old remarks also counter his recent comments, in which he has claimed that he worked to end the targeting of minorities at the end of his tenure as mayor. As he left office at the end of 2013, the resurfaced clip shows that he was still strongly defending police specifically going after minorities in the final year of his mayorship.
https://www.newsweek.com/bloombergisracist-trends-second-resurfaced-clip-shows-dem-candidate-saying-we-disproportionately-1486722
MSM has picked this up from the twitterverse.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)Why is he immune from vetting?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)still. Doesn't everyone have something in the past that could be done differently, perhaps? I get tired of seeing the same old dirt, shown again, and again, and again, and again...perhaps something new for once?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)2015 doesn't seem that old to me. YMMV.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)This is hardly "old news" to me.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)... Nov of this year cause mostly political geeks are paying attention
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)is "digging up old stuff from the past..."
I reject it as absurd, biased and irrational. But I get it.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
HarlanPepper
(2,042 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
HarlanPepper
(2,042 posts)Which is why you see Russian bots working hard to resuscitate the meme.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
redqueen
(115,103 posts)But not sure if anyone has welcomed you
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Skya Rhen
(2,701 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Let's see how he deals with the new realities of campaigning in the modern age.`
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)Or outright deflection.
Old news! Why is this being brought up now? He's changed! Etc...
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)A Bloomberg nomination would alienate a large portion of the base, damaging the Democratic Party for years to come.
He's not been in debates or really campaigned, but that's not sustainable even with his money. Once he has to actually compete, his true colors will be known.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided