BY MICHAEL VAN DER
GALIEN | PJ Media
(Photo by Jonathan Raa/Pacific Press)
Audio of Mike Bloomberg's 2015 speech at the
Aspen Institute has gone viral.
In his talk, the former New York Mayor who's
now running for the Democrat presidential nomination, says that "you can
just Xerox (copy)" the description of the murderers and their victims
(male, minorities, ages 16-25) and hand it over to the cops.
As is always the case with Bloomberg, he had
the video of the speech blocked.
Sadly for him, however, there are people who
have the audio recording.
Bloomberg said:
"95 percent of your murders -- murderers
and murder victims fit one M.O. You can just take the description,
Xerox it and pass out to all the cops. They are male, minorities,
sixteen to twenty-five. That's true in New York, that's true in virtually every
city."
And Bloomberg, the man who's running for the nomination of the supposedly anti-racist Democrat party went on to say:
"And that's where the real crime
is. You've got to get the guns out
of the hands of the people that are getting killed. You want to spend the money
on a lot of cops on the streets."
Once you've got more cops, he argued,
you have to "put the cops where the crime is, which means in minority
neighborhoods."
Bloomberg even responded to those who'd pull
the race card on him by saying:
"One of the unintended consequences is people say,
'Oh my God, you are arresting kids for marijuana that are all minorities.' Yes,
that's true. Why? Because we put all the cops in minority neighborhoods.
Yes, that's true. Why do we do it? Because that's where all the crime is."
And he wasn't done quite yet.
He added that
"[the] way you get the guns out of the kids' hands is to throw them up
against the walls and frisk them... And then they start... 'Oh, I don't want to
get caught.' So they don't bring the gun. They still have a gun, but they leave
it at home."
Even though it appears the murder statistics Bloomberg cited were correct, good luck
trying to win the nomination as a progressive once Democrat voters listen to
this audio.
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Bloomberg ‘s Leaked 'Racist' Audio Goes Viral
BY TYLER O'NEIL | PJ Media
On Monday evening, a liberal podcaster leaked audio from
a February 2015 address former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave at
the Aspen Institute. Bloomberg bragged
about how he supported the controversial "stop-and-frisk" policing
strategy in order to keep guns out of the hands of young black males who are
disproportionately likely to commit murder and to be victims of murder.
Bloomberg had blocked the release of video footage from
the event.
According to the audio, the former mayor went further
than stop-and-frisk, however. He appeared to advocate for disarming the young
black men who are victims, not just the perpetrators.
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. They are
male, minorities, 16 to 25," Bloomberg says in the audio. "That’s
true in New York, that’s true in virtually every city and that’s where the real
crime is. You’ve got to get the guns out of the hands of the people that are
getting killed."
Bloomberg's comments went viral and "#BloombergIsRacist" started trending on Twitter.
Regardless of the truth of these claims, the former mayor
appears to be advocating the disarming of future murder victims.
His strategy? Stop-and-frisk.
Bloomberg also said:
"You
want to spend the money on a lot of cops in the streets. Put the cops where the
crime is, which is in the minority neighborhoods. One of the unintended
consequences is, people say, ‘Oh my God, you are arresting kids for marijuana
that are all minorities.' Yes, that’s true. Why? Because we put all the cops in
minority neighborhoods. Yes, that’s true. Why do we do it? Because that’s where
all the crime is."
"And the way you get the guns out of the kids' hands
is to throw them up against the walls and frisk them," Bloomberg added.
When they expect to be frisked, "they don't bring the gun."
The former mayor's outright linkage of crime with racial
minorities drew swift condemnation.
"This is disgusting. Every cable news show should be
leading with and discussing this today," Bakari Sellers, a former member
of the South Carolina House of Representatives, tweeted.
"This is horrible as hell!" tweeted Nina
Turner, an Ohio state senator and national co-chair of the Bernie Sanders
campaign.
…
Dilbert creator Scott Adams had a field day. "If you are a Trump supporter who wants some laughs today, check out the [Bloomberg is racist] hashtag to see what spending $350 million buys you in 2020. [Cancelled] [No refunds]," he tweeted with laugh emojis.
Dilbert creator Scott Adams had a field day. "If you are a Trump supporter who wants some laughs today, check out the [Bloomberg is racist] hashtag to see what spending $350 million buys you in 2020. [Cancelled] [No refunds]," he tweeted with laugh emojis.
Scott also wrote “If liberals had not already soured on
Bloomberg over the Xerox video, they might "cancel" him entirely
after hearing these remarks on policing: "I think we disproportionately
stop whites too much and minorities too little."
Benjamin Dixon, the podcaster who released the Xerox
audio, also dredged up Bloomberg's horrific classist remarks about taxing
the poor for their own good.
Dixon wrote, “Of course
Bloomberg apologized for #StopAndFrisk, but
his racist explanation and justification of it in the video he had blocked
shows that he operates from a deeply troubling framework that he would
undoubtedly bring to the White House.”
Now on to Bloomberg’s
classism.
I’ve shared this before, but it needs repeating. In this clip, the Democratic Establishment’s knight in oligarch’s armor explains why regressive taxes are necessary to help poor people from their bad habits of drinking sugary sodas.
Dixon also complained about the video showing
Bloomberg's smarmy
condescension against Midwesterners for not accepting transgender
bathrooms. The liberal Dixon did not complain about the classism in that video,
but rather about the fact that Bloomberg described a "transgender
woman" as "a man in a dress."
…
Bloomberg also supports many liberal causes, especially gun control, a $15
minimum wage, and radical climate proposals — although far short of the Green
New Deal.
When it comes to race, some analysts have predicted
that black
voters in swing states may buoy President Trump to re-election. Trump
had delivered near-record-low
black unemployment, rising wages, and criminal justice reform.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has long dominated among
black voters in the Democratic race, but his support appears to be dropping.
A recent
national poll suggested that as black voters sour on former Vice
President Joe Biden, they flock to Bloomberg. These stop-and-frisk remarks may
seriously undercut that support.
Tyler O'Neil is the author of Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law
Center. Follow him on Twitter at @Tyler2ONeil.
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