President Donald Trump briefly attempted to jump on Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg, calling the billionaire and former New York City mayor “a total racist” before deleting the tweet not long afterward on Tuesday.
Bloomberg, whose net worth is about $60 billion, has come under fire for his highly controversial “stop and frisk” policing strategy, which was implemented when he was New York’s mayor from 2002 to 2013. The policy is now known to have disproportionately targeted and harmed minority communities.
Although Bloomberg has apologized for the policy and claimed he worked to end stop and frisk by the end of his time as mayor, recently resurfaced clips from 2013 and 2015 show that he strongly defended the policy in his final year in the job and years later. In the 2015 remarks, Bloomberg said: “Ninety-five percent of your murders—murderers and murder victims—fit one M.O. You can just take the description, Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops.”
This racist rant is shocking.
— Trump War Room – Text WOKE to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) February 11, 2020
Mike Bloomberg thinks "all the crime" is in "the minority neighborhoods."
He bragged about targeting minorities and "kids," saying "throw them up against the wall and frisk them." pic.twitter.com/kC913pyNLb
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