Michael Bloomberg’s comments on racial profiling are a problem for the Democratic Party

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Hours after a national poll showed Michael Bloomberg gaining among black voters, a 2015 video surfaced in which Bloomberg made troubling comments about racial profiling and how it affected New York’s stop-and-frisk policy.

“Ninety-five percent of your murders, murderers and murder victims, fit one M.O.,” Bloomberg said, according to the audio. “You can just take the description, Xerox it, and pass it out to all the cops. “They are male, minorities, 16 to 25. That’s true in New York. That’s true in virtually every city. And that’s where the real crime is.”

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