Really Mayor Bloomberg? Really? Or were you talking about Manhattan Kansas? He must have been.
Bloomberg's legacy under fire for police tactics in NY City
NEW YORK (AP) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday that police "disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little" as compared to murder suspects' descriptions, sparking criticism from activists and some politicians in a city that has been immersed in a debate about law enforcement and discrimination.
So Black New Yorkers are being stopped and frisked because they are the same race and gender as Bloomberg's generic murder suspects.
On Friday, Bloomberg appeared to double down.
"And you know, everybody'll say, 'Oh, you're overstating it.' I don't know if you're overstating it or not, but I'm not willing to find out," Bloomberg told a radio program. "I don't know what you'd say at the eulogy if a cop got killed, and say, 'Well it turned out we weren't overstating it. Sorry."
Nobody who lives in New York would make such a preposterous claim unless its part of a stand-up comedy routine.
Bloomberg: Police stop minorities 'too little'
"Our mayor's comments prove he just doesn't get it," said Councilman Robert Jackson, who co-chairs the council's Black, Latino and Asian Caucus.
Bloomberg spokesman Marc LaVorgna said the critics were "fabricating outrage over an absolutely accurate comment."
I hope this will motivate the billionaire Mayor's supporters to give Bloomberg a second more critical look.