New audio shows the Michael Bloomberg who once cared about saving minority lives

Published February 11, 2020 5:11pm ET



Michael Bloomberg has been rising in polls, but the former New York City mayor is now coming under fire over newly surfaced audio in which he defended his stop-and-frisk policy. But the person in the audio sounds a lot more like the real and unapologetic Bloomberg that Democrats need in the presidential primary.

The audio was posted Monday on Twitter by liberal commentator Benjamin Dixon, and it purports to be a clip of Bloomberg speaking at a 2015 conference about the effects stop and frisk had on minorities.

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