Bloomberg Defends Perp Walk

New York Magazine reports:

Mayor Bloomberg sounded almost Giuliani-esque when he defended the NYPD's decision to have IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn — known back home as "the Hot Rabbit" — do a "perp walk" for allegations that he raped a maid at a Times Square hotel. Bloomberg fired back at French critics saying:

"I think it is humiliating, but if you don't want to do the perp walk, don't do the crime," adding, "I don't have a lot of sympathy for that."

We're sure he meant to preface that statement with some version of "innocent until blah blah guilty blah." Bloomberg also said he supported the judge's decision to put the man heralded as a frontrunner for the French presidency in a cell in Rikers without bail.

"He would be the kind of person who has a good chance of fleeing and France does not have an extradition treaty with the United States," Bloomberg said.