On a Sunday in mid-November, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg took a car out of Manhattan

across the East River to the outer limits of Brooklyn. He had an appearance scheduled at the

Christian Cultural Center, a black mega-church in East New York. There was something the former mayor wanted

to get off his chest. Over time I've come to understand something that I long struggled to admit

to myself. I got something important wrong. I got something important really wrong. A little more

than six years after leaving office, Bloomberg apologized for a policing tactic he championed,

known as Stop and Frisk. I didn't understand that 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. But I can't change history. However, today,

I want you to know that I realized back then I was wrong. And I'm sorry. And then one week later,

I'm glad to announce that I am running for president to defeat Donald Trump and to unite and

rebuild America. He announces his run for the presidency. As a former three-term mayor of America's

largest city who wants govern New York as a Republican, Bloomberg is entering the Democratic

primary in a new era. The party has moved left on criminal justice issues, and candidates are now

having to account for policing policies that devastated some American communities.

Part of the reason they have to address this type of criticism is because they know the importance

of the black vote. It's not a monolith, but it's essential to capturing the democratic nomination.

So Michael Bloomberg goes to East New York. He apologizes for this thing he did as mayor. He announces

he's running for president and boom, he's addressed it. Turns out, for voters, it's more complicated

than that. I rather somebody knew that I don't know come lie to me. I don't care what he says. He's

not getting my vote. I'm tremendously, and this is into America, a podcast about politics,

about policy, and the power that both have in shaping the lives of the American people.

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