Past comments by longtime former Republican Michael Bloomberg — including one speech on video obtained by POLITICO — risk alienating key liberal constituencies
Bloomberg’s 2015 description of the policy seems to contradict his remarks in the 2013 video. Speaking to NYPD brass, he rejected claims that stop and frisk is racially biased.
It wasn’t the only time Bloomberg drew fire for comparing local groups on the left to the NRA. In 2007 and 2013, Bloomberg did the same with the local teachers’ union. The teachers union was irate over Bloomberg’s NRA comparison in part because it came just a month after the Sandy Hook elementary shootings in Newtown, Conn., Weingarten noted that two members of her union were among those gunned down.
“In New York there’s a lot of fierce comments,” she said. “I don’t think he believes that anymore and I would hope he didn’t believe it when he said it.” The two have mended fences: In 2018, she and Bloomberg penned a“What it said to me is that he viewed us as responsible for the hostility and opposition he was facing and the police department was facing over stop and frisk,” NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman added on Saturday.
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