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Buttigieg Town Hall Devolves Into Shouting Amid Anger Over South Bend Police Shooting
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A town hall featuring South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg devolved into chaos Sunday as the city struggled to respond to a deadly police-involved shooting last week.
In his opening remarks, the 37-year-old Buttigieg, a Democrat and candidate for president, said he would send a letter to the Justice Department requesting that its civil rights division look into the June 16 shooting of 54-year-old Eric Logan, who was black. The mayor added that he would notify the local prosecutor that he'd like an independent investigator appointed.
Buttigieg also admitted that the city's efforts to recruit more minority police officers and require officers to use body cameras "have not succeeded and I accept responsibility for that." Prosecutors said the shooting of Logan was not recorded by Sgt. Ryan O'Neill's body camera.
O'Neill, who is white, was responding to a report of a suspicious person breaking into cars when investigators said he fired one shot that hit Logan and another that missed after Logan threatened him with a knife. The investigators said O'Neill's body camera wasn't automatically activated because he was driving slowly without emergency lights while looking through an apartment building parking lot. O'Neill has since been placed on administrative leave.
Logan's death prompted Buttigieg to cancel much of his out-of-state campaigning this week. Buttigieg returned to campaigning Friday with a trip to Miami but skipped a South Carolina event attended by 21 other presidential candidates to fly home for a Friday evening community march.
The town hall was interrupted frequently by outbursts and heckling. At one point, a man yelled at Buttigieg: "You gotta get back to South Carolina like you was yesterday? Talk about 'all lives matter' in South Carolina?" Another man approached the stage to yell at Buttigieg and South Bend Police Chief Scott Ruszkowski, ignoring the moderator's attempts to restore order.
"I don’t want to seem defensive, but we have taken a lot of steps," Buttigieg said at one point. "They clearly haven’t been enough. But I can’t accept the suggestion that we haven’t done anything."
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He's really presidential material.
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RE: Buttigieg Town Hall Devolves Into Shouting Amid Anger Over South Bend Police Shooting
DOA.
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RE: Buttigieg Town Hall Devolves Into Shouting
Every time I see this guy's name all I can think of is Bettlejuice.
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RE: Buttigieg Town Hall Devolves Into Shouting Amid Anger Over South Bend Police Shooting
Its an impossible situation for a white mayor.
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RE: Buttigieg Town Hall Devolves Into Shouting Amid Anger Over South Bend Police Shooting
(06-24-2019 01:25 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote: Its an impossible situation for a white mayor.
What does his race have to do with it?
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RE: Buttigieg Town Hall Devolves Into Shouting Amid Anger Over South Bend Police Shooting
(06-24-2019 01:25 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote: Its an impossible situation for a white mayor.
I bet Marion Berry woulda knocked this one out of the park.
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RE: Buttigieg Town Hall Devolves Into Shouting Amid Anger Over South Bend Police Shooting
(06-24-2019 01:43 PM)gdunn Wrote: (06-24-2019 01:25 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote: Its an impossible situation for a white mayor.
What does his race have to do with it?
The anger have been taken over by street gangs who hijacked the Black Lives Matter movement that is causing all of this. The street gangs already had a war with law enforcement for years, and BLM just added a new tool for them even when the person the police killed were a violent felon who injured or kill others.
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RE: Buttigieg Town Hall Devolves Into Shouting Amid Anger Over South Bend Police Shooting
(06-24-2019 02:06 PM)CG_Hawk06 Wrote: (06-24-2019 01:25 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote: Its an impossible situation for a white mayor.
I bet Marion Berry woulda knocked this one out of the park.
Kill whitey, down with the blue eyed devil
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