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Former NYPD Lt. Darrin Porcher also had some things to get off his chest, telling PIX 11, “If you’re a leader you need to stand behind your policies. This is something he stood behind, and as we progress to now, he’s now flip-flopping—or he’s folding—based on a political sentiment for his perspective of running for president.”

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And when asked if he believes Bloomberg’s apology was sincere, Porcher responded, “Absolutely not.”

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio shared a similar sentiment.

“We have had plenty of inflection points where he could have said, ‘You know what, I was wrong,’” de Blasio told CNN. “He has never cared to do that. And I think that says something about the veracity of this.”

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De Blasio also added, “To wait six whole years and only when it is a matter of need, I think that raises eyebrows. This is a deathbed conversion.”

To put how incredibly racially bias stop-and-frisk was into context, Forbes dropped this startling statistic:

At its peak in 2011, 685,724 NYPD stops were recorded, with nearly 90 percent of people stopped being innocent. Of those stopped, 87 percent were black or Latino, and more than half were under the age of 24.

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If Bloomberg has any desire to atone for his sins of the past, he’s gonna have to do a lot more than offer half-ass apologies, as nobody is buying his fake remorse, even for a second.