Archived How Badly Did Pete Buttigieg Mishandle a Police Shooting? (nymag.com)
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Archived How Badly Did Pete Buttigieg Mishandle a Police Shooting? (nymag.com)
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FTA: "Intelligencer staffers Zak Cheney-Rice, Benjamin Hart, and Ed Kilgore discuss the South Bend mayor’s shaky performance in the aftermath of a local tragedy.
Ben: Last week, a white police officer, Ryan O’Neill, shot and killed a black man, Eric Logan, in South Bend, Indiana, where Pete Buttigieg, wunderkind presidential candidate, is still the mayor. The shooting highlighted long-simmering tensions between black residents and the police force (the officer who fired the shot has been accused of racist remarks in the past) as well as between black residents and Buttigieg. The mayor went home to address the crisis, skipping an important campaign event, but his presence doesn’t appear to have pacified many. Some people shouted at Buttigieg to reform the police department during one appearance; the mayor then hosted a sometimes-chaotic town hall in which he remained calm but appeared overmatched by what was unfolding in front of him."
If you can't handle a simple police shooting, how you gonna handle NK and Iran?