Bloomberg racist or factual?

Bloomberg's not a racist and was instrumental in lowering racial tension in NYC.

Trump's campaign will repeatedly attack Democratic candidates in order to weaken them. Nobody is more racist than Trump who is running with the support of David Dukes, KKK and other hate groups and who has been an inspiration and motivation for mass killers who slaughtered innocent people in synagogues, shopping malls and Mosques.

Democrats have to be smart and not take the bait. Bloomberg is everything Trump wishes he could be. A successful businessman, a real multi-billionaire, intelligent, effective at creating jobs and helping the economy. NYC is still thriving from Bloomberg's leadership even with DeBlasio in office.

He apologized for it while he was running for president. He explained and I don't blame him for doing so, at the time, a high crime rate was from people of color (think mostly blacks or hispanics) hence the increase in stop and frisk on that race group. It did drive crime down as well but blacks don't see it that way. They play the victim in that regard imo (think due to the mishandling of the central park 5 incident). Maybe there were better ways of handling it (can't think of one atm) but it seemed the logical way to go about trying to tackle an issue at the time. Nowadays criminals sorta get more rights than cops in NYC.

IE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YrSvmBVTw8

There needs to be a balance to hold to account the cops that do bad and the thugs/gangbangers that do bad. When you're on the job, you can get some bias when you're arresting mostly a particular race group so in turn your mind can get a little warped (even if it holds some truths to the problem at hand).

What I can't wrap my head around is how people flinch (mostly black from the video's I have seen on just Usain Bolt tactic) at the sight of police because they're afraid. Don't they know they make the situation worse by doing that? Like whose teaching them to just run or cross their mind thinking so? Or maybe it's something else... Beyond me. They need to teach what to do when a cop approaches you and not escalate these situations in school and cops need to be taught not to descalate situations when encountering people of interest.

What I learned from cops approaching you from videos of people getting gunned down:
-Keep your hands out of your pockets (stop fidgeting like your trying to take something out like a gun or knife or other).
-Keep open communication with the officer on what you're going to do if they ask for identification or other.
-Keep your hands on the steering wheel unless directed so since they can't see when your back is turned to get something below or other.
-Announce if you are carrying on you or near you
-Record encounter with phone or cam as evidence for your safety and theirs. Sometimes dirty cops can plant shit or go on a power trip depending on how you handle it.

Basically be friendly, keep your hands in plain view (calms trigger happy) and announce what you're doing out loud. I'm sure it's nice to argue with cops or exercise your rights in front of their faces but not everyone can do that well. Seen so many idiots try it and it didn't work out well. If they abuse, you got evidence and get nice sums of money.

I think it was a stupid comment but I think he's less racist than Buttigieg if the South Bend Tales are any indication.

It was hyperbole apparently meant for private rather than public consumption. It came off as a little callous or even unconcerned about black citizens, but the essential point he was making, that the liberal academic argument that "blacks are disproportionately arrested for (insert mundane crime here)" is nonsense, is absolutely correct.

Those BS "studies" claiming "racial discrimination" peddled by leftists from racial activists to Eric Holder are wrong because they fail to take into account the fact that predominately black neighborhoods tend to have sky high violent crime rates and, as Bloomberg said, police flood the zone to combat that crime. I'll add that they do that mostly to protect black citizens, but while there they also enforce more mundane laws on marijuana and traffic. Weighing the need to fight crime with not having Americans of any color feel an overbearing police presence is another topic with legitimate points on both sides.

I'd caution Republicans against tagging Bloomberg a "racist" over this, sacrificing principle for short term perceived political opportunism. He may very well be a racial bigot, but these comments don't prove that.

There are far better reasons to criticize Bloomberg as an unworthy, potentially disastrous leader, including his flip flop on effective search and frisk policies and his craven apologies for this recorded stance.