Not buying it, Toure.
Via Mediaite:
MSNBC host Touré condemned the New York City policing strategy known as “stop-question-and-frisk” on Monday. He dismissed the NYPD’s claims that the program has been found unconstitutional unfairly by a New York district court. Touré reported that NYPD officers have informed him that “racial profiling” is a major part of that program and police are “discouraged” from stopping suspicious individuals who are white.
Touré began by playing a clip of New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly defending the practice on NBC’s Meet the Press, saying that most of the lives saved by that program are minority lives.
“He’s saying lots of crimes are committed in black and brown neighborhoods so it’s going to treat everyone in those neighborhoods like criminals,” Touré asserted. “That is a justification for racial profiling, which the Mayor [Michael] Bloomberg says in his Washington Post editorial today he has zero tolerance for.”