De Blasio: Biden Has to Be Accountable for 1994 Crime Bill Vote – IOTW Report

De Blasio: Biden Has to Be Accountable for 1994 Crime Bill Vote

WFB: New York City mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Bill de Blasio said former vice president Joe Biden must be accountable for his vote in favor the 1994 crime bill during an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday.

“Your fellow Democratic candidate Kamala Harris recently split with the front runner Joe Biden over his vote in 1994 for the crime bill. Biden says that that did not generate mass incarceration. Harris disagrees. Who’s right?” host Dana Bash asked.

“That crime bill was one of the foundations of mass incarceration in a very painful era in our nation’s history. Look, the vice president and anyone else has to be accountable for every vote they take and what’s on their record. I think that was a huge mistake,” de Blasio said. “Look, we have a mass incarceration crisis still in this country. In our city we’ve reduced our jail population about 30 percent already. We’re going to close the infamous Riker’s Island jail. We are ending the era of mass incarceration in New York City.” read more

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