Bloomberg Seeks to Move Past ‘Stop and Frisk’ Controversy
- Former New York mayor says comments don’t reflect how he lives
- Sanders surrogate Ocasio-Cortez says policy hurt her family
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Michael Bloomberg sought Wednesday to move past a controversy about comments he made in 2015 that crime in minority communities justified stop-and-frisk policing when he was New York mayor. He predicted black voters will still support him.
“Those words don’t reflect the way that I’ve governed, or the way that I run my company or the way that I live,” Bloomberg told reporters after a campaign stop Wednesday in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He said he was re-elected twice in one of the most diverse U.S. cities. “I think we’re going to do very well in the African-American community.”