Democrat Pete Buttigieg is confronted at a town hall on a white police officer who killed a black man:
“Look at the man who’s talking to you, Peter!”
“Stop Lying! Stop lying!”
“It’s not a joke, Pete!”
“Answer The Question!”
Buttigieg just stares with a blank look on his face pic.twitter.com/aftPSZd0op
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) June 23, 2019
Incredibly poorly handled.
Via Fox News:
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.