Vermont Business Magazine Today, Mayor Miro Weinberger released the following statement:
“I made a mistake and I am now sharing a plan to fix it.
“As Mayor, our community looks to me to lead with our City’s values, including sincerely championing racial justice in both words and actions.
“An operational and functional assessment of the Burlington Police Department has been planned since last summer, and it is an important document for the future of the City, for achieving racial justice in our law enforcement, and for maintaining public safety. My initial decision regarding management of the project would not have fully served these critical goals. This decision was wrong and reveals my own bias, and I must work transparently to address that. Specifically, I see now that my focusing with this decision on achieving “neutrality” in the way that the process was managed was wrong and reflected the wrong priorities.