Democratic Mayor Buttigieg faces growing fallout over police shooting in his city

A police shooting in South Bend, Indiana has laid bare anger among many in the city's black community who believe African American neighborhoods have been left behind while Mayor Pete Buttigieg has revitalized more affluent, whiter areas

SOUTH BEND, Indiana - Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Sunday faced growing fallout over a fatal police shooting in South Bend, an incident that has exposed simmering racial tensions in the Indiana city where he is mayor and which is complicating his presidential ambitions.

Buttigieg appeared a week after the fatal shooting of a black man, Eric Logan, by a white police officer exposed longstanding accusations among many African Americans in South Bend that elements within the city’s predominately white police force are racist. He also took to the stage just hours after another fatal shooting in the city, which left one person dead and nine injured in a bar early on Sunday morning.

The growing and racially-charged crisis in the city where he has been chief executive since 2012 threatens to stall the progress Buttigieg had been making in national presidential polls among the two dozen Democrats seeking to become the party’s candidate to take on Republican President Donald Trump in next year’s election.

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