据报道，迈克尔·布隆伯格正在考虑参加2020年民主党总统竞选，他周日向黑人教徒道歉，因为他长期支持一项有争议的“拦截搜身”警务策略。
布隆伯格曾在2002年至2013年担任纽约市市长，他道歉并谴责自己倡导的警察策略，该策略允许执法部门搜查任何轻微涉嫌犯罪的人。激进的拦截搜身政策遭到民权组织和民主党议员的广泛嘲笑，他们引用的统计数据显示，这一政策主要针对黑人和拉丁裔居民。
周日，布隆伯格出现在纽约布鲁克林的一个大教堂，道歉并收回他数十年来对停车搜身的支持。
“我错了，”布隆伯格周日早上对基督教文化中心的观众说，纽约时报第一据报告的。“我很抱歉。”
根据监狱政策倡议，布隆伯格在周日的推特上立即得到了包括阿尔·夏普顿在内的黑人社区领袖的温和赞扬，但许多人仍对这位前市长在导致数千人入狱的政策上突然改变主意持怀疑态度。黑人和拉丁裔居民成为警察使用拦截搜身政策的目标的可能性是白人的九倍，仅在2009年就有575，000人被拦截。
根据a倍分析显示，纽约警察局在2011年拦截并询问了684，330名纽约人，其中87%是黑人或拉丁美洲人。
“我现在明白了，我们应该行动得更快，行动得更快，”彭博继续说道。“随着时间的推移，我逐渐明白了一些我一直努力向自己承认的事情:我犯了一些重要的错误。那时我不明白停止对黑人和拉丁裔社区的全部影响。我完全专注于拯救生命，但正如我们所知:良好的意图是不够的。”
正如许多评论家所指出的，布隆伯格直到去年9月才坚定地站在停车搜查一边在采访中其中他还嘲笑了“# MeToo”运动。
根据皮尤研究中心2018年的一项分析，非裔美国选民约占民主党全国基础的20%。纽约市长办公室的继任者比尔·白思豪在2014年1月宣布撤销该市的停车搜查政策。
“前市长布隆伯格刚刚为他担任市长期间的停车搜查政策道歉。不管他的动机是什么，我很高兴看到这一点。伤害他人...这是正确的立场，动机将受到质疑，”夏普顿周日在彭博评论后不久在推特上评论道。
“你不能指望像我们这样的人在一次演讲后会原谅并忘记，”夏普顿在给彭博新闻社的电话中补充道倍报道。
周日，美国国家广播公司BLK记者贾内尔·罗斯在MSNBC发表讲话，对彭博的政策逆转提出了更为怀疑的态度，比较他与民主党候选人南本德、印第安纳州市长皮特·巴蒂吉的“温和”脱节。
“人们对黑人社区的犯罪行为非常担忧，但是，我认为黑人选民希望看到这些问题得到解决的解决方案或方式可能与彭博直到今天一直倡导的激进、高度关注的警务方式不一致。”
民主党总统候选人迈克尔布隆伯格周日向黑人教徒道歉，因为他长期支持一项有争议的“拦截搜身”警务策略。
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG APOLOGIZES FOR 'STOP-AND-FRISK' POLICY WHILE AS NYC MAYOR, SAYS 'I WAS WRONG'
Michael Bloomberg, who is reportedly mulling entering the 2020 Democratic presidential race, apologized to black churchgoers Sunday for his longtime support of a controversial "stop-and-frisk" policing tactic.
Bloomberg, who was mayor of New York City from 2002 through 2013, apologized and denounced his advocacy of the policing strategy that allowed law enforcement to search anyone even mildly suspected of a crime. The aggressive stop-and-frisk policy was widely derided by civil rights groups and fellow Democratic lawmakers who cited statistics that it overwhelmingly targeted black and Latino residents.
On Sunday, Bloomberg appeared at a Brooklyn, New York megachurch to apologize and pull back his decades-long support of stop-and-frisk.
"I was wrong," Mr. Bloomberg told the Christian Cultural Center audience Sunday morning, The New York Times first reported. "And I am sorry."
Bloomberg immediately received mild praise from black community leaders including Al Sharpton in a tweet Sunday, but many remain skeptical of the former mayor's sudden change of heart on a policy that led to the imprisonment of thousands, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. Black and Latino residents were nine times as likely as white people to be targeted by police using the stop-and-frisk policy, with 575,000 stops being made in 2009 alone.
According to a Times analysis, the New York Police Department stopped and questioned 684,330 New Yorkers in 2011, with 87 percent of those people being black or Latino.
"I now see that we should have acted sooner, and acted faster," Bloomberg continued. "Over time, I've come to understand something that I long struggled to admit to myself: I got something important wrong. I didn't understand back then the full impact that stops were having on the black and Latino communities. I was totally focused on saving lives, but as we know: good intentions aren't good enough."
As many critics have noted, Bloomberg adamantly stood by stop-and-frisk as late as September of last year in an interview in which he also derided the "#MeToo" movement.
According to a 2018 Pew Research Center analysis, African American voters make up about 20 percent of the Democratic Party's base nationwide. Bloomberg successor in the NYC mayoral office, Bill de Blasio, announced the reversal of the city's stop-and-frisk policy in January 2014.
"Former Mayor Bloomberg just apologized for stop and frisk policy while he was Mayor. Whatever his motive, I'm glad to see this. Hurt people...It's the right position, motive will be questioned," Sharpton remarked on Twitter Sunday shortly after Bloomberg's comments.
"You can't expect people like us to forgive and forget after one speech," Sharpton added in a call to Bloomberg, the Times reported.
Appearing on MSNBC Sunday, NBC BLK reporter Janell Ross offered a more skeptical approach to Bloomberg's policy reversal, comparing his "moderate" disconnect to that of fellow Democratic candidate, South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
"There is a lot of concern about crime in black communities, however, I think that the solutions or the ways that black voters would like to see those issues addressed might not align with say, really aggressive, hyper-focused policing which Bloomberg until today had been an advocate of."
Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg apologized to black churchgoers Sunday for his longtime support of a controversial "stop-and-frisk" policing tactic.
