A Hopkins mayoral candidate said this week that a proposed light-rail line would bring “riff raff and trash from Minneapolis” into the suburb, including people he called “ethnics” and “coloreds.”

The candidate, Bob Ivers, made the comments during a discussion about the Southwest line at a candidate forum held Monday by the League of Women Voters.

In the video clip, Ivers says: “You listen real close. All the Chicago and Detroit riff raff that have moved into welfare-apolis, they’re gonna get on that train. And you know where they’re gonna end up? They’re gonna end up down at the Depot [Coffee House], and they’re gonna end up with [your] — granddaughters and daughters and grandsons.