It was horrible, if you were a young black in the city. On your way to school in the morning there would be a undercover police on the streets. Suddenly you'd see a badge in your face and you'd be told to walk around a corner or to some other area where police were holding other youths. You'd be searched, your ID taken and held and for the next 30 or 40 minutes you could do nothing but wait and hope you'd be let go. Occasionally some young man, after having been stopped several times in the last hour or so, would express his exasperation the Police would then place him under arrest for assaulting an officer and resisting arrest. It was terrifying. Blacks had to live with that for the Bloomberg years. Stopped going to and from school, stopped on you way home or to work, stopped while going to visit friends and/or family. Stopped, stopped, stopped and you dare not complain about it and even so you might still be arrested and charged with a crime, just because some officer decided to do so. It was terrifying and terrible and I watched it play out on the streets everyday. Bloomberg had all the information he needed to know better than to continue it, but he chose to keep it going. Racist politicians never, ever admit they are racist! So you cannot take their word for it, all you can do is judge them by their actions.
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