Posted on 06/29/2019 10:03:59 AM PDT by conservative98
Pete Buttigieg returned to South Bend on Saturday to attend events in memory of Eric Logan, an African American man shot dead by a white police officer in the small Indiana city.
It will be the Democratic presidential candidate’s first visit to the city he runs as mayor since a contentious town hall event last weekend threw a national spotlight on the shooting, Buttigieg’s record in office and his relationship with black voters.
After consulting with people close to Logan’s family, Buttigieg will not attend the funeral. He will instead participate in a peace walk and a community event including faith leaders and police representatives.
Logan, 54, was shot dead on 16 June, after police responded to a call about someone breaking into cars. Sgt Ryan O’Neill, the officer who shot Logan, said he came at him with a knife. O’Neill had not turned on his body camera. He was placed on leave. An independent prosecutor will investigate.
Early in his term in office Buttigieg, 37, demoted South Bend’s first black police chief. In a city that is 27% black and 15% Latino, 90% of officers are white.
In Thursday night’s Democratic debate, Buttigieg was asked about his failure to bring greater diversity to South Bend police. He said he “couldn’t get it done”.
He also said he “could walk you through all of the things that we have done as a community, all of the steps that we took, from bias training to de-escalation, but it didn’t save the life of Eric Logan. And when I look into his mother’s eyes, I have to face the fact that nothing that I say will bring him back.”
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He handled this subject extremely well and responsibly at the debate.
Pete Buttplug what?
Pete Butterbutt who?
Flaming Faggots from Fairyland?
What kind of world do we live in these days? The End is definitely near.
He looks like a really faded version of Mr. Bean.
Will this Mayor Pete topic become a trash magnet?
Butti is still learning the ropes. Grease the right “community organizer” palms with that heavy donor money and it’ll keep them quiet until the election. After which, you can pay them from the public purse. Anyone who doesn’t know the game by now hasn’t been paying attention.
South Bend/Pete Buttigieg...
There’s a joke in there...
Isn't that the town he's currently the mayor of?
Media: @vyurkevitch to @FWhitfield on @PeteButtigieg in #SouthBend today: "A very different tone" from last week in a third annual "peace walk" -- "sitting, praying with different pastors, singing along ... to bring this community back together." pic.twitter.com/nfIE5RDea4— Porter Anderson (@Porter_Anderson) June 29, 2019
Did the Butt Boy mayor ever visit and offer help to his citizens whose property was destroyed in the recent tornado that hit portions of South Bend?
“Do you not feel hope today” - Mayor @PeteButtigieg at the South Bend peace march this morning pic.twitter.com/dqvZqHvzSd— Chris Meagher (@chrismeagher) June 29, 2019
Logan, 54, was shot dead on 16 June, after police responded to a call about someone breaking into cars
I wonder if he reached out or said anything to all the VICTIMS of this thug????
“...all of the things that we have done as a community, all of the steps that we took, from bias training to de-escalation, but it didn’t save the life of Eric Logan.”
That’s because it had nothing to do with bias you putz and the shooting was the de-escalation. As long as there are shitheads like Logan, Michael Brown, etc roaming around this is going to happen.
Look at the silly pandering faggot, dressed as casually as he dares while everybody else is in shorts and t-shirts. His situation is what you get when you have no principles and need to constantly be squaring one lie with another.
I wish you were being facetious in post 7, but alas, you have accurately summed up the “politics of race” in a nutshell.
This is another reason Trump is such a threat to the left. His undeniable economic success for everyone, including minority communities, has made people look beyond whatever Jackson, Sharpton, and other shysters are peddling.
Objectively, he has been the best President in my lifetime for minorities in the US based on the metrics.
He looks like a really faded version of Mr. Bean.
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good one
His first visit to the city since......?
The city where he lives?
He’s described as visiting his hometown?
This makes it sound as if he doesn’t spend a lot of time there, what with running around the country running for president and everything.
Crime will drop when law-abiding black people start siding with the police instead of any black criminal they see. When a black thug gets shot and the law-abiding blacks all rally around the cop, smiling and saying “Good shot! Another one bites the dust, hell yeah! By the way, my brother-in-law deals meth, can you shoot him too? Here’s his address, have a good time.” ... that’s when you’ll see crime drop.
This is one of the reasons I am voting for Pete. Because he unites people where Trump would divide them./s
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