U.S. presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, rising in public opinion polls in...
WASHINGTON - U.S. presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, rising in public opinion polls in recent weeks, found himself on the defensive on Tuesday over newly surfaced remarks from 2015 in which he said 95% of murderers and murder victims were minorities.
For years after his 2002-2013 mayorship, Bloomberg defended the tactic as an effective way to save lives, only to apologize for it a few days before announcing his candidacy in November. “The way you get the guns out of the kids’ hands is to throw them up against the walls and frisk them,” Bloomberg said in the recording.
Tom Steyer, another Democratic presidential hopeful, said Bloomberg’s comments were “deeply disturbing” and Symone Sanders, an adviser to Joe Biden’s campaign, told Fox News the remarks were “sad and despicable.” On Tuesday, he restated his apology over stop-and-frisk, saying he had reduced its use by 95% by the time he left office.
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