Michael Bloomberg vs The Hip-Hop Flag

Published: Feb. 26, 2020, 9:11 p.m.

New York Times article by Maggie Astor Feb. 19, 2020 Days before he announced his presidential campaign in November, Michael R. Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City from 2002 through 2013, renounced one of his signature policies: stop-and-frisk, in which police officers stopped and searched millions of New Yorkers, the vast majority of whom were black or Hispanic and had not committed a crime.