Activists with Black Lives Matter, who met privately with Buttigieg in the weeks after police shot and killed Eric Logan, say the 37-year-old mayor brushed off their concerns about police violence in the city he has led since 2012.
After a fatal police shooting threatened Pete Buttigieg's presidential ambitions, the mayor talked with representatives from the activist group Black Lives Matter over the summer.
Members of Black Lives Matter, who met privately with Buttigieg in the weeks after the shooting, say the 37-year-old Democratic mayor brushed off their concerns about police violence in the city he has led since 2012. Buttigieg has faced questions about his record on race on the national stage. Pressed in June during the first Democratic debate on the diminishing diversity of South Bend's police department throughout his tenure as mayor, Buttigieg said that "I couldn't get it done."
"Those discussions have included residents who have been supportive of our efforts and those who have been critical of our efforts, because we strongly believe in the value of working through community challenges through good-faith, productive conversations," said the spokesman.Buttigieg, who has struggled to regain his early momentum in national polls, has failed to attract the support of black voters amid scrutiny of his record on race in South Bend.
She added: "My attitude is trying to give somebody another chance, and I'm sure that they feel like he's run out of chances, but the bottom line for me is that I believe he is an honest man and he tries his best."The biggest disagreement between the Black Lives Matter activists and Buttigieg concerned his refusal to fire South Bend Police Chief Scott Ruszkowski.
Instead, they said they were met by police officers openly carrying weapons, a sight they felt was meant to intimidate them, and which Eric Logan's brother, Tyree Bonds, said was "triggering" inUltimately, the South Bend chapter of Black Lives Matter issued a call for Buttigieg to resign, penning a letter to the mayor that accused him of claiming "to be an ally to people of color but you have not acted like one.
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