it s just not going to happen on a national level for somebody like me. unless i was willing to change my views and go on an apology tour. joe biden went out and apologized for being male, over 50, white, whatever his name is as apologized for being born. dana: what do you make of this change of heart by michael bloomberg? he must be serious about jumping into the race? i agree. i think it shows he is serious about getting in. the biggest critique of him getting into the race. and that the u filing in alabama and arkansas, the one major criticism is the stop and frisk policy. so he saw it as his biggest vulnerability and obviously is trying to get ahead of it and try to tamp down opposition based on that. dana: do you think his apology would be taken sincerely
should have acted sooner and acted faster to cut the stops. i wish we had. i m sorry that we didn t. but i can t change history. however today, i want you to know that i realize back then i was wrong. and i m sorry. joining me now, host of politics nation reverend al sharpton. i was in local news covering stop and frisk. you were battling mike bloomberg against stop and frisk. this collectively blew a lot of folks minds that he would apologize for something that he so aggressively defended during his tenure. and i think as recently as last fall. yes, you know, not only were we marching, you had people going to court. center for constitutional rights, new york itself liberties union, proved in court the racism involved in the stop
way to go. buttigieg also says he counts his rise in the poll from the meeting earlier in the month in iowa. today former mayor bloomberg spoke at a predominantly black megachurch in brooklyn and apologized for his long-time support of the nypd s stop and frisk policy. i got something important really wrong. i didn t understand that back then, the full impact that stops were having on the black and latino communities. now, hindsight is 20/20, but as crime continued to come down as we reduced stops, and as it continued to come down during the next administration, to its credit, i now see that we could and should have acted sooner and
their past. it would like make us take a step back and think about where we re i like that one. yeah, no, that s good. so admit it. you knew it was only a matter of time before we talked about the criminal justice system. and milwaukee has black folks so caught up in the system that it has the most incarcerated zip code in the country, with 62% of the black men there imprisoned by 34 years old. 62%. and in milwaukee county as a whole more than half of all black men in the 30s and 40s have at some point been behind bars. this pipeline to prison can partly be traced to the milwaukee police department s stop and frisk policy. luckily the chapter of the aclu took notice, sued the city and won the case. i met with some of the plaintiffs and wisconsin state representative jared crowley along with ar aclu rep jared english at the wisconsin black historical society. there s a perception of the
african-american men. joining me now from indianapolis, nbc news road warrior vaughn hillyard at the national urban league conference where both candidates spoke today. vaughn, help us understand this. we know that the feud began yesterday. is it living on? reporter: no, both men appeared here in indianapolis earlier today and cory booker was making the case here to folks in indianapolis of what electability means. he said that you should turn to a candidate who has been there representing folks on the issue of criminal justice not just this year but going into the past. and it was joe biden, though, as you just heard in that bite, who said he d be happy to go on that debate stage and go through each other s records saying that, hey. folks should maybe even look at cory booker s tenure as the newark mayor and the police department s stop and frisk policy. the doj opened up an investigation into the department in newark in 2011. polling indicates there is, polling out of south carol