Leaked Audio Of Bloomberg Talking About High Crime Rates In Urban Communities, Defending Stop & Frisk Policing

Whoops, this leaked audio has the potential to undermine Bloomberg’s status with minority voters.

As Fox News reported:

A newly-surfaced recording from a 2015 speech by Michael Bloomberg, in which the former three-term mayor of New York City gives a full-throated defense of the controversial policing procedure known as “stop and frisk,” is threatening to undermine the 2020 presidential candidate’s subsequent apologies for backing the policy and hurt his status with minority voters.

When Bloomberg spoke in 2015, he wasn’t being racist in regards to simply speaking facts about crime in the African-American communities.

HOWEVER. There is a degree of cultural appropriation that becomes such a slippery-slope in minority communities, where, even though ‘stop, question, and frisk’ has been effective, Bloomberg’s mention of ‘unintended consequences’ and his problematic explanation of the policy are not going to be well received by the minority communities.

More from Fox News:

In an audio clip of a 2015 speech, the billionaire gave to the Aspen Institute, Bloomberg acknowledged that “stop and frisk,” targeted minority “kids” who cops must throw “up against the wall” to disarm. The Aspen Times reported at the time that Bloomberg representatives asked the Institute not to distribute footage of his appearance.

In the audio, you’ll hear him say, “You’ve got to get the guns out of the hands of people that are getting killed.”

Wait, what? Uhh. Pretty sure taking the guns away from people that are being targeted by people with guns isn’t the side you should be focusing on.

Yeah, he said that.

Also, from a grammatical perspective, if you take the guns from people who are getting killed, I feel like you got to the scene a little too late.

More from Fox News:

“So 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,” Bloomberg is heard saying on the recording. “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 wall 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.”

Bloomberg’s recording reveals he was vigorously defending his stance back then, but now he’s repudiating it?

Once he starts feeling the heat from being grilled about the policy, the pander panda awakens from hibernation.

Omg! Leaked audio of Mike Bloomberg talking about the high crime rates among urban minorities.

“And the way to get the guns out of the kids hands is to throw them up against the wall and frisk them” #BloombergIsARacist pic.twitter.com/MkONUhQQpX

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 11, 2020