independent | Churchgoers in Alabama turned their backs on Michael Bloomberg
as the billionaire former mayor of New York and presidential hopeful
joined Democrats vying for the party's nomination in Selma, where
memorial events have been commemorating the 55th anniversary of a
landmark moment of political violence in the Civil Rights movement.
Mr Bloomberg has faced mounting criticism for a range of
controversies while in office and as a company chief, from sexual
harassment allegations and settlements to his continued defence for his
police department's practice of racially profiling through "stop and
frisk" measures, which he only publicly apologised for as he entered the
presidential race.
He failed to satisfy his critics and other Democratic opponents
during his first-ever debate appearance last month, when he fumbled his
explanation for allowing the policy in the first place.
During a church service in Alabama on Sunday, a group of
black worshippers inside the historic Brown Chapel AME Church silently
stood and turned their backs on Mr Bloomberg as he delivered his remarks
recognising "Bloody Sunday", when white police
brutally attacked hundreds of voting rights activists marching through
town at the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement on 7 March 1965.
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