The interview has not yet aired. Many have opposed the practice during its use by New York City police as minorities were disproportionally targeted. “We did it in NY, it worked incredibly well and you have to be proactive”, Trump said at a town hall in Cleveland. Trump has as of late also been an ardent supporter of profiling regarding immigration, believing it is a helpful tactic in stopping terrorism. The former mayor is founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News parent Bloomberg LP. De Blasio cited the city’s dropping crime numbers since stop-and-frisk shut down. She, too, piped up: “Stop and frisk was not beneficial”, she said. The year before the mayor took office there were 649 murders in New York City.
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Concerns about stop and frisk aren’t limited to NY.
“Those peddling the narrative. share directly in the responsibility for the unrest that is afflicting our country and hurting those who have really the very least”, he said.
Second, and most importantly, Trump’s promise to create a nationwide stop-and-frisk program targeting black and brown people is red meat for the “basket of human deplorables” that is his base. The ACLU’s March 2015 report also found “African Americans represent almost 72 percent of all the stops in the city of Chicago, as compared to the reality that African Americans represent only about 32 percent of the city’s population”.
The New York billionaire then suggested violence in Chicago is worse than that of Afghanistan, and endorsed a policing method that has been struck down by a New York judge as a violation of minority residents’ civil rights. “I don’t know what she was thinking but I’m very, very troubled by that”, Trump said, calling it a “terrible situation”. “Was she choking? What happened?” Wouldn’t the public feel safer if officers patted down every white guy in a trench coat who has that Keanu Reeves-in-“The Matrix” look?
Donald Trump was asked by a member of a Fox News town hall audience this week what he would do to reduce violent crime in the country’s inner cities.
King, dressed in a jacket decorated with sparkling sequins, called Trump fearless “and bold enough to take on the system”. Amid protests, legal challenges, and mayoral campaigns that promised to end the anti-crime tactic, however, opponents have said stop-and-frisk policing is unconstitutional because officers disproportionately target minorities.
But those comments were overshadowed by King’s choice of words when making his appeal to African-Americans.
In recent weeks Trump has made overt pitches to black voters, who have largely shunned his campaign.
“If you’re poor, you are a poor negro”.
“The issue with stop-and-frisk in the NY area was the widespread, indiscriminate use of that practice, particularly when it was not generating success from a law enforcement perspective, in either leads or tips or firearms, and the resulting lack of trust that it generated”, she said. “But if you’re rich, you are a rich negro”.
Scott spoke glowingly on Trump’s behalf at the Republican National Convention in July, and has served as a liaison between Team Trump and other black clergy. But he was joined Trump at another stop in Toldeo and was expected to join him at an appearance in Dayton, too.
Yet upon being asked in a town hall Wednesday night how he’d tackle black-on-black crime, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump said stop and frisk was the answer.
Trump’s campaign rejected the interpretation that he was talking about the protests seen on cable news the last few nights. “There are many wrongs that still must be made right”, he said. It’s hard to imagine many black Americans embracing that approach.
“We are victims”, he said, adding that he had walked out of the meeting.
At the end of the OH church event organized by members of his diversity coalition, Trump was asked about recent high-profile police shootings in Oklahoma and North Carolina.
Of course, as president, Trump would not be able to unilaterally implement the policy in a single city; he would have to defer to local officials and law enforcement. But when you have 3,000 people shot and so many people dying.
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“They’re great people, great people”. “It’s a awful thing that we’re witnessing”.
