Michael Bloomberg, bullshit artist

[marmar]

Mayor Michael Bloomberg lashed out Friday morning at two bills recently passed by the New York City Council that aim to check the NYPD's controversial use of stop and frisk.

"The racial profiling bill is just so unworkable," he told host John Gambling during his weekly radio appearance, Capital New York reports. "Nobody racially profiles."

The bill to which Bloomberg was referring allows New Yorkers to sue if they felt they've been profiled based on religion, sexual orientation, or race.

"There is this business, there's one newspaper and one news service, they just keep saying, 'Oh it's a disproportionate percentage of a particular ethnic group,'" Bloomberg added. "That may be, but it's not a disproportionate percentage of those who witnesses and victims describe as committing the murder. In that case, incidentally, I think we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little." ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/28/bloomberg-racial-profiling-nypd_n_3516901.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037&ir=Politics

[OneGrassRoot]

1. I really thought it was from The Onion. I'm stunned he said that. n/t