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Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged that President-Elect Donald Trump’s
proposal to implement the use of stop-and-frisk nationwide are not going
to fly with him—noting the federal government can threaten deny New
York City money, but can’t force it to change its policing methods.
On the campaign trail, Trump promised to restore law and order in the
United States and called for stop-and-frisk to spread across the map.
During the first presidential debate, then Republican nominee Donald
Trump said the policy was successful in New York, even as his opponent Hillary Clinton and moderator Lester Holt pointed out that a federal judge ruled it unconstitutional in 2013.
De Blasio promised that, so long as he is mayor, the city would abide by Judge Shira Scheindlin’s decision.
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Source: Observer (via The Empire Report)
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