#BloombergIsRacist Trends As Second Resurfaced Clip Shows Dem Candidate Saying 'We Disproportionately Stop Whites Too Much And Minorities Too Little'

Democratic presidential candidate and billionaire businessman Mike Bloomberg is under fire after two clips of him defending his highly controversial "stop and frisk" policing strategy have circulated on social media, with the hashtag #BloombergIsRacist trending on Twitter.

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But the former mayor's record on championing a policing policy that disproportionately targeted minorities has angered many voters. Although the billionaire apologized for the policy before launching his campaign, the resurfaced clips show that he was ardently defending "stop and frisk" as recently as a few years ago.

"They just keep saying it's a disproportionate percentage of a particular ethnic group. That may be, but it's not a disproportionate percentage of those who witnesses and victims describe as committing the murder," the wealthy businessman, with an estimated net worth of $60 billion, said in a 2013 interview with WOR. "In that case incidentally, I think we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little."

Those old remarks also counter his recent comments, in which he has claimed that he worked to end the targeting of minorities at the end of his tenure as mayor. As he left office at the end of 2013, the resurfaced clip shows that he was still strongly defending police specifically going after minorities in the final year of his mayorship.