The recent unrest in South Bend — triggered by the fatal shooting of Eric Logan, a black man, by a white police officer a week ago — has become the most profound hurdle for Buttigieg’s candidacy to date.
SOUTH BEND, Indiana — As he soared from obscurity to top-tier presidential candidate this year, Mayor Pete Buttigieg rooted his unlikely campaign in an argument he hoped would fit both the moment and his relatively thin resume: that what a nation fed up with big government truly needs is to “get Washington to look more like our best-run cities and towns.
Buttigieg has tried to explain to his constituents that laws spell out exactly how officer-involved shootings must be handled and potential police misconduct investigated — and that no amount of grief or anger, however warranted, can justify circumventing that process to punish people before the investigation is complete.
"This problem has to get solved in my lifetime. I don't know of a person or a city that has solved it,” Buttigieg said after the crowd dispersed. “But I know that if we do not solve it in my lifetime, it will sink America." While another mayor is running in the Democratic primary this year — New York’s Bill de Blasio — his candidacy has yet to attract anywhere near the level of attention as Buttigieg’s.
“You don’t get to control all of the messaging,” added Adler, who has endorsed Buttigieg. “All you get to control is how you do your job.”For Buttigieg, the spotlight on his handling of issues of policing and race is one he had invited upon himself long before the shooting in South Bend. Compounding problems for Buttigieg, the incident in South Bend just so happened to overlap directly with his biggest obstacle as a candidate — his thus-far limited appeal to black voters. After spending weeks honing his message and economic plan for African Americans, Buttigieg was just starting to see the fruits of those efforts in the way of improved poll numbers with black voters in South Carolina when the Eric Logan shooting occurred.
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