Bloomberg now balks on perp walks
nypost.com

French critics who angrily denounced the US justice system for subjecting former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn to a humiliating “perp walk” found an unlikely ally yesterday: Mayor Bloomberg.

Reversing his position of just seven weeks ago, the mayor denounced as “outrageous” and a “circus” the long-standing practice of marching criminal suspects before photographers and TV cameras when they are transported from station houses to courthouses.

“I’ve always thought perp walks were outrageous,” Bloomberg said yesterday, when asked about Strauss-Kahn’s walk of shame following his arrest on charges of sexually assaulting a hotel maid. “That’s only my view.”

Except on May 17, Hizzoner said, “If you don’t want to do the perp walk, don’t do the crime.”

What a tool.