Gilmore race-baiting?

You don't have to feel the air getting colder or see the lawn signs cropping up to know that an election is nearing.
Just listen to the tone of rhetoric coming from Hamilton Mayor Glen Gilmore.
His recent pledge to open a can of whup-ass on anyone who happens to look shady in Hamilton public spaces is a thinly veiled attempt to make himself look tough on crime ahead of November's voting.
While the idea of putting cameras in a crime-ridden area is sound, Gilmore's comments smacked of race-baiting.
By "outsiders," he meant people from Trenton, and by people from Trenton, he meant black people.
It's silly and small-minded for many reasons, but also because Hamilton is a pretty diverse community itself, with its own problems, created by its own residents.
The other thing that was kind of ridiculous about his comments was that he wants to prevent loitering at a public park.
What are you supposed to do at a park besides loiter? Work?
Isn't loitering the point of a park?

Gilmore race-baiting?

You don't have to feel the air getting colder or see the lawn signs cropping up to know that an election is nearing.
Just listen to the tone of rhetoric coming from Hamilton Mayor Glen Gilmore.
His recent pledge to open a can of whup-ass on anyone who happens to look shady in Hamilton public spaces is a thinly veiled attempt to make himself look tough on crime ahead of November's voting.
While the idea of putting cameras in a crime-ridden area is sound, Gilmore's comments smacked of race-baiting.
By "outsiders," he meant people from Trenton, and by people from Trenton, he meant black people.
It's silly and small-minded for many reasons, but also because Hamilton is a pretty diverse community itself, with its own problems, created by its own residents.
The other thing that was kind of ridiculous about his comments was that he wants to prevent loitering at a public park.
What are you supposed to do at a park besides loiter? Work?
Isn't loitering the point of a park?