Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo Endorses Michael Bloomberg For President

WBZ TV's Paula Ebben reports.

[desafinandoconhector]

As New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg defended stop and frisk to the end. When a judge ruled in 2013 that the NYPD's practice of patting down anyone deemed "suspicious" was "indirect racial profiling", Bloomberg responded, 'We go to where the reports of crime are. Those, unfortunately, happen to be poor neighborhoods and minority neighborhoods and minority neighborhoods". Police made almost 5 million such stops-82% of which involved black or Latino people-from 2003 to 2013, per the New York Civil Liberties Union. Six year later, as he mulls a presidential bid as a Democrat, Bloomberg has apologized. At a black church in Brooklyn on November 17, he acknowledged, "Far too many innocent people were being stopped". For some advocates, however, it was too little, too late. "Communities under siege for years..." tweeted Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. "But now-as he prepares to run for President-he's sorry" Which everyone says is not enough.

[Cizeeks]

Michael Bloomberg should just shut it down... & GO AWAY. !!!

[mattdoe]

A communist and someone who as governor of New York allowed stop and frisk practice under his watch ot was ok Lmao thanks Gina for the vote of Trump cuz Bernie Sanders won the state of Rhode Island but Gina raimondo gave it to Hillary Lmao so your vote dont count only our Governor. Lmao