In a bid to cut down on crime in America’s inner cities, Donald Trump on Wednesday embraced the idea of allowing police to more aggressively “stop-and-frisk” people on the streets, even though those tactics were ruled unconstitutional several years ago in his home town of New York, as a federal judge said it amounted to racial profiling.
“I would use ‘stop-and-frisk,'” Trump said in a Fox News town hall in Ohio. “I think you have to.”
While Trump said stop-and-frisk in New York “worked incredibly well,” that call an drew immediate and furious push back from the Mayor of New York,
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