NYPD Commissioner Bratton Slams Ted Cruz Over Call to Patrol 'Muslim Neighborhoods'

[TomCADem]

Source: NBC

New York City's police commissioner slammed Ted Cruz Saturday for suggesting police step up patrols of "Muslim neighborhoods" after the terror attacks in Brussels, and accused the Republican presidential hopeful of exploiting the tragedy.

"We already patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods, the same way we patrol and secure other neighborhoods," Commissioner William Bratton wrote in an op-ed in the New York Daily News. "But no, we do not single out any populace, black, white, yellow or brown for selective enforcement."

"We do not 'patrol and secure' neighborhoods based on selective enforcement because of race or religion, nor will we use the police and an occupying force to intimidate a populace or a religion to appease the provocative chatter of politicians seeking to exploit fear," Bratton continued.

Bratton, along with President Barack Obama, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and the Council on American-Islamic Relations all condemned Cruz' proposal shortly after he made it Tuesday.


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1. Interesting

That Cruz equates the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights, with political correctness!

[TomCADem]

2. Super Genius Cruz Also Thinks the President Can't Nominate A Justice...

...in his last year notwithstanding the plain language of the Constitution.

[Sunlei]

3. Republicans exploit tragedy to ramp up bigotry in America. Harrassment of a religion.

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[LuckyLib]

4. Good on Bratton. Since the Repugs don't seem to be able to respond to the

whack-jobs in their party, other pubic figures will have to do so: