“To this day, [former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg] still defends his policy of stop-and-frisk, which impacted families like mine,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is campaig…
First she took the former mayor to task for his support of NYC’s stop-and-frisk policies that have been criticized for being ineffective, discriminatory and racist. And she spoke about how the measures affected her personally.
“To this day, he still defends his policy of stop-and-frisk, which impacted families like mine,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “It was my cousins and my friends that were stopped on the New York City subway system and racially profiled and patted down and thrown into jail for low-level marijuana offenses.” Then she went on to agree with Sanders’s take on the super rich entering the presidential race.
“I don’t think billionaires should be president right now,” Ocasio-Cortez added. “I don’t think that that’s what this country needs, and I think that is going to take us further in the direction of wealth and political power concentrating at the very, very top of our country. And I think that our democracy should be for everyday people, not for purchase.”
The reporter also asked if the congresswoman were old enough to run, would Sanders ask her to join his ticket. Ocasio-Cortez laughed and Sanders showered her with praise, then said, “If I am in the White House, she will play a very, very important role, no question, in one way or the other.”
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