‘Throw them up against the wall’: Leaked recording of Bloomberg defending stop and frisk resurfaces

Published February 11, 2020 3:18pm ET



Newly uncovered audio of 2020 presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg depicts the former New York City mayor defending the controversial stop-and-frisk policy, which he enacted while in office.

The 2015 recording comes from a speaking event Bloomberg attended at the Aspen Institute, during which he acknowledged that the policy disproportionately affected minorities and defended it.

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