. @MikeBloomberg ballooned the racially discriminatory, morally indefensible Stop-And-Frisk program in NYC and argued for it endlessly. At its height, NYPD was stopping twice as many young black/Brown men as there WERE black/brown men. #NEVERbloomberg mobile.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/opi…
This meant that many of these young men were being stopped and frisked multiple times a year. But about 1-in-10 was ever charged with anything, and often that charge was for having a small amount of marijuana.
No legitimate policy has a 90 percent failure rate. None! This was a pattern of racism discrimination championed by @MikeBloomberg. I will punch a hole in my keyboard before I stop writing about what Bloomberg did. #NEVERbloomberg
The @nytimes revealed that one mostly black neighborhood in NYC had 52,000 stop-and-frisk over four year, Enough for one of each resident each year. The arrest rate was less than 1%. Bloomberg was mayor and still defended it. ##NEVERbloomberg
And you know what would have happened if one of those boys had run, or flinched, or looked like they were reaching for something, or made an officer “fear for his life.” I raised two boys in this city under Bloomberg and his stop-and-frisk. Constant worry. Terror…
