Bloomberg: throw them up against the wall and frisk them

[bluewater]

Link to tweet

Abby D. Phillip

@abbydphillip
@CNN
Political Correspondent, former
@washingtonpost
@abcnews
@politico

It will be interesting to see what happens to Bloomberg's support among African American voters once this information goes national.

[redqueen]

2. What I find astounding is how many DUers are fine with it

I wish this had been out sooner.

[bluewater]

4. ikr

But there is plenty of time for it to disseminate. The nomination contest is a marathon.

[Quackers]

24. It's the money.

People are selling their values, even dismissing these racists acts, as long as Bloomberg brings his money to oust Trump. I want Trump out too. But damn, excusing racism?

[squirecam]

33. I agree with you but

If AA voters eventually decide on him.....then who am I to go against their choice.

[Quackers]

37. You're right, that is their choice. We all have that choice.

I just believe everyone should have all of the information available to them when they make that choice. You wouldn’t believe how many post I’ve seen today saying they don’t care what Bloomberg has done or said as long as he wins against Trump. I want Trump out. I just think we have other candidates that can do it without our party selling it’s soul.

[squirecam]

38. There will be debates before the votes

Bloomberg will have to answer for this on stage. Not with tv ads.

[CentralMass]

25. Well he's rich and he isn't Bernie.

[totodeinhere]

31. It has been out for sometime.

Last edited Tue Feb 11, 2020, 03:09 PM - Edit history (1)

As recently as 2016 Bloomberg has been recorded defending stop and frisk.

[redqueen]

32. "defending stop and frisk" is whitewashing what he actually says in these clips. nt

[totodeinhere]

53. I was trying to make a point without being too hard on the person who could very well

end up being our nominee. I also corrected a typo in my OP.

[Butterflylady]

51. This isn't new.

Anyone that follows politics already knew this. I remember hearing about this when he first came out with the program. It will some damage until the next big news story comes along.

[George II]

3. Holy CRAP! See who those two people are????

Tim Murtaugh: Director of Communications for @realDonaldTrump 2020 re-election campaign
Brad Parscale: Campaign Manager for @realdonaldtrump 2020 Presidential Campaign

[honest.abe]

5. They are now afraid of Bloomberg.

GOP smear machine reset to take out Mike instead of Biden.

[BusyBeingBest]

6. They're shitting their pants on the Trump side over Bloomberg.

They're going to use this quote probably more than anyone in the Dem primary. Will be interesting to see if it causes Bloomberg to stall out.

[George II]

10. Apparently tweets from two of trump's upper echelon are now acceptable.

[bluewater]

12. It's a tweet from a CNN national political reporter.

Abby D. Phillip

@abbydphillip
@CNN
Political Correspondent, former
@washingtonpost
@abcnews
@politico
. Relapsing road warrior. Tips, kind notes: [e-mail]

[George II]

15. Now, but first you posted tweets from Tim Murtaugh and Brad Parscale.

[bluewater]

20. editing mistake. Cut and pasted in wrong url address.

Those comments are still in the CNN political reporter's tweet on the Stop and Frisk Issue. It shows how Trump and the rThugs will use the Stop and Frisk issue against Bloomberg while being hypocrites themselves.

[Baclava]

49. More than one quote

Bloomberg: “Ninety-five percent of murders — murderers and murder victims fit one M.O. You can just take a description, Xerox it, and pass it out to all the cops. They are male, minorities, 16-25. That’s true in New York, that’s true in virtually every city…And that’s where the real crime is.”

“These kids think they’re going to get killed anyway because all their friends are getting killed,” Bloomberg said during the speech. “So they just don’t have any longterm focus or anything. It’s a joke to have a gun. It’s a joke to pull a trigger”

“We put all the cops in minority neighborhoods,” said Bloomberg. “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.”

“Yes we’re arresting minorities for marijuana” but “that’s where the crime is”

[BusyBeingBest]

50. Yes, I saw these too.

[redqueen]

7. Right? This is just a taste. Maybe we shouldn't be rallying behind a racist.

Talk about doing the GOP's work for them.

This is viral btw.

[JudyM]

16. Astonishing how we're selling out. Truth used to matter, regardless of the source.

[redqueen]

18. It really is a very eye opening time to be on DU. nt

[bluewater]

35. The actual source is a CNN political reporter.

I cut and pasted the wrong url from that tweet previously.

That was corrected in a minute, but DU-ers jump in fast. lol

So there is absolutely no reason anyone should question the source at all.

[honest.abe]

21. I do not think Mike is a racist. That is unfair.

I dont know all the details but clearly the stop and frisk issue was ugly and should not have been enforced that way. However, as the Mayor of huge cosmopolitan city he represented all the people and Im sure there was huge pressures on him to combat crime. That's not an excuse but an explanation for what he did and said... and that does not make him a racist.

[redqueen]

22. Have you seen / listened to these clips?

[honest.abe]

23. Yes.

[Hearthrob]

34. Yes, Yes, Yes

We've already compared his and Trumps clips.

Guess who wins!

[cherryinpa]

27. 100%

If we sell out our values for $$$ then we've lost even before the game has started.

This is so dismaying so many people are going down the Bloomberg route without understanding who he is.

[redqueen]

28. What's even worse is they're defending him even knowing who he is.

Heartbreaking.

[bluewater]

30. +1000

[Skya Rhen]

45. All they see are the best ads that $$$ can buy and they fall for it hook, line and sinker. Why

doesn't Bloomberg put out an ad boasting about his brainchild, stop and frisk. We are so easily fooled by slicksters.

[honest.abe]

29. Racism.

Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to physical appearance, and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another.

I do not think Mike is that.

[Hearthrob]

39. "Genocide in Chief"

The United Nations Genocide Convention, which was established in 1948, defines genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such" including the killing of its members, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, deliberately imposing living conditions that seek to "bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part", preventing births, or forcibly transferring children out of the group to another group.[4][5][6]

Compassion will return in November, as long as we still have a democracy to repair.

[honest.abe]

42. I disagree. In fact he trying to stop a racist political party from taking over this country.

If Trump wins again you will see racism like you have never seen it before.

[Skya Rhen]

43. Trump will win because Bloomberg's entrance will guarantee a Bernie victory. The moderate base will

be split between him and Biden and Bernie will skate right to the top. As a black person, who knows a thing or two about being on the receiving end of racism, this spoiler situation scares me.

[honest.abe]

44. No way Bernie wins this.

He simply does not have enough support of AA voters and will never get it.. imo.

[Skya Rhen]

46. There are only so much AA votes to go around and it can go 50/50 Biden and Bloomberg. Thanks

Bloomberg.

[honest.abe]

48. Yes, that could be what happens but..

I think its more likely one or the other takes the majority especially if one of candidates starts to lose support.

[bluewater]

8. Yep, the rThugs ALREADY have Bloomberg's number.

not good.

that's a CNN national political correspondent reporting THAT.

Abby D. Phillip

@abbydphillip
@CNN
Political Correspondent, former
@washingtonpost
@abcnews
@politico

[bluewater]

11. And CNN is already picking up on it! That tweet is from a CNN national reporter.

Abby D. Phillip

@abbydphillip
@CNN
Political Correspondent, former
@washingtonpost
@abcnews
@politico

[George II]

13. Your OP originally had tweets from Murtaugh and Parscale.

[bluewater]

17. editing mistake. Cut and pasted in wrong url address.

Those comments are still in the CNN political reporter's tweet on the Stop and Frisk Issue. It shows how Trump and the rThugs will use the Stop and Frisk issue against Bloomberg while being hypocrites themselves.

[Tiggeroshii]

9. This is absolutely fucking disgusting.

[MenloParque]

14. We are high information voters

As an African-American Democrat voter with family members in all 5 NYC Boroughs, I can tell you that they are high information, strategic voters. With that said, they all do intend to vote for Mike. In my opinion, this post was created to be divisive, and does not help in removing the incumbent.

[redqueen]

19. Welcome to DU nt

[tonedevil]

40. So you are a...

Democrat voter? That's very interesting to me.

[Fresh_Start]

26. should help with crossover voters

does trump realize he's helping weaken his base?

adding sarcasm alert

[JudyM]

36. Disgusting.

[highplainsdem]

47. See this thread for the actual NYC homicide statistics explaining the focus on

minorities:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287501392

[Fiendish Thingy]

52. This should disqualify Bloomberg, period. Nt