Bloomberg mocks minorities, transgender people, overdose deaths in resurfaced videos

As New York mayor in 2011, Bloomberg went on a press tour to promote a $127 million initiative to help minorities gain employment.

To explain why they needed assistance, Bloomberg said that black and Latino men “don’t know how to behave.”

“This enormous cohort of black and Latino males” who “don’t know how to behave in the workplace” and “don’t have any prospects,” he said in the video, which came out Feb. 18.

Bloomberg continued, saying crime generally takes place “in minority neighborhoods.”

“If you look at who the victims and the perpetrators are, it’s virtually all minorities,” he said. “This is something that has gone on for a long time. I assume it’s prevalent elsewhere but it’s certainly true in New York City. And for many, many years, people said there’s just nothing you can do about it.”

The candidate has come under fire for his use of stop and frisk, which primarily targeted people of color while he was mayor of New York. Since entering the 2020 race, Bloomberg has apologized for the policy.

Earlier this month, a 2015 audio clip of Bloomberg defending stop and frisk also surfaced.

In the recording, Bloomberg said the majority of murderers and murder victims “fit one M.O. — you could just take the description, Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops. They are male, minorities, 15 to 25 [years old].”

Article source: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/25/mike-bloomberg-mocks-minorities-progressives-overdoses-in-resurfaced-videos.html