{"id":91749,"date":"2019-06-24T08:25:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T12:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/mayor-pete-buttigieg-faces-town-hall-outraged-over-south-bend-police-shooting-of-black-man-watch\/"},"modified":"2019-06-24T08:25:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T12:25:42","slug":"mayor-pete-buttigieg-faces-town-hall-outraged-over-south-bend-police-shooting-of-black-man-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/mayor-pete-buttigieg-faces-town-hall-outraged-over-south-bend-police-shooting-of-black-man-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Pete Buttigieg Faces Town Hall Outraged Over South Bend Police Shooting of Black Man: WATCH"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Pete Buttigieg Faces Town Hall Outraged Over South Bend Police Shooting of Black Man: WATCH<\/b><\/p>\n

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Mayor Pete Buttigieg left the campaign trail again over the weekend to face constituents in South Bend outraged over the fatal shooting of a black man<\/a> by a police officer.<\/p>\n

According to the South Bend Tribune<\/em>, Sgt. Ryan O\u2019Neill, a white officer, shot Eric Logan, an African-American man<\/a>, in the parking lot of an apartment complex responding to a call<\/a> that someone was breaking in to vehicles. According to O\u2019Neill, he discovered Logan with his legs halfway out of a vehicle. Upon approaching the vehicle, he says Logan lunged at him with a raised knife. The officer shot Logan twice in the abdomen. He was transported to the hospital in a police car. The officer\u2019s body camera<\/a> was not on, nor was the cruiser\u2019s dash cam<\/a>, because O\u2019Neill had not activated his emergency lights.<\/p>\n

Buttigieg has been criticized for not bringing enough diversity to the police force in South Bend. In remarks over the weekend, he admitted that the city\u2019s body camera<\/a> initiative had failed.<\/p>\n

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Watching this Town Hall on the police shooting in SB reminds that presidential races are a series of tests. Some, like debates, you can anticipate Others you cannot. @PeteButtigieg<\/a> faces one of those unanticipated tests now. Thru it, we will learn more about him.<\/p>\n

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The South Bend Tribune<\/em> reports<\/a>: \u2018Many made sure their voices were heard, often shouting over the mayor\u2019s answers, calling him a liar or demanding that Ruszkowski be fired. When the crowd was asked to hold its anger, Komaneach Wheeler stood up and shouted \u201cA mother of injustice cannot hold her anger!\u201d Some of the questions were pointed squarely at Buttigieg, whose run for president has put the Logan shooting and ensuing reaction in the national spotlight. \u201cHow can we trust this process?\u201d Blu Casey, a local activist, asked the mayor. \u201cHow are we supposed to trust you?\u201d Buttigieg at one point admitted that he had failed to bring greater diversity to the Police Department, where 5% of the officers are African-American, though he said it wasn\u2019t for a lack of effort as he mentioned some initiatives the city undertook or is exploring.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Said Buttigieg after the event<\/a>: \u201cYou can sense the pain not only around this incident \u2026 and not only around our city but what\u2019s happening everywhere, when it comes to the disempowerment that so many black Americans have felt in relation to the police. When you lead a city and it\u2019s hurting, you take that on board all the time, but you especially take that on board at a time like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis problem has to get solved in my lifetime,\u201d Buttigieg added<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t know of a person or a city that has solved it, but I know that if we do not solve it in my lifetime, it will sink America. And if nothing else, I hope people know that I am motivated, not out of some theoretical concern or some political imperative, but as somebody whose city is hurting. What I hope African Americans watching this see is that our city is facing this. We\u2019re not running away from it. This isn\u2019t theoretical for us, this isn\u2019t something being debated in Washington. This is our problem, as it is a problem in so many places. And we are on the front lines of it. And we\u2019re doing everything we know how.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mayor Pete Buttigieg Faces Town Hall Outraged Over South Bend Police Shooting of Black Man: WATCH<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n