Presidential candidate and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg spoke at an emotional town hall where residents demanded change at the police department.
Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg said he takes responsibility for the South Bend police department's failed efforts to hire more minority officers and implement the use of body cameras.
He said the issues raised at the town hall are part of a conversation that has to happen, as painful as it is.Buttigieg, along with South Bend Police Chief Scott Ruszkowski, answered questions from several upset residents who shouted questions and concerns at the two city leaders."Get the people that are racists off the streets," one resident told Buttigieg on Sunday."Reorganize the department and get those people off the streets now.
A police officer confronted a man in a vehicle at an apartment building parking lot. The man, later identified as Logan, got out of the vehicle and allegedly approached the officer with a knife raised, and the officer opened fire, the prosecutor's office said. Logan died at a hospital.Police Sgt. Ryan O'Neill is on paid administrative leave while the shooting is under investigation.
He has had a sometimes-bumpy relationship with African Americans in South Bend, where he demoted the city’s first black police chief and demolished hundreds of dilapidated homes in predominantly minority neighborhoods.Buttigieg said he has implemented policies such as bias training and civil-rights training for police officers and will continue to work to make sure the department meets them.
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