And audience members will be asking questions about race intentions, policeinvolved shooting, a white Police Officer a week a ago and a black man. Eric dyson joining me now about how the black Police Officer was let go soon after the mayor took office. The mayor the chief. Through our own cnn reporting, that police chief was replaced by two other Police Officers, both white, and cnn was also able to uncover the makeup the makeup of the police force in terms of diversity has gone down, about 5 in an eightyear period. In fact, this is the sound bite from the mayor who says, work has to be done, still has yet to be done, but also had this acknowledgment about his own failings. The effort to recruit more minority officers to the Police Department, and the effort to introduce body cameras have not succeeded. And i accept responsibility for that. We have tried but not succeeded to increase diversity in the Police Department, and we need help. And while body cameras were implemented across th
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officers by name and that s a man in the audience mentioned, aaron nepper, that s somebody we looked into in our piece, get into the many allegations against aaron nepper and the fact he remains on the force and how it impacts people in the community to this day. the other factor that we write about is that the police department doesn t reflect the african-american community in south bend. in 2014, 10% of the police force was african-american. that number in 2019, according to the south bend police department, is now at 5%. so this is a pivotal moment for pete buttiegieg. not only as his tenure as mayor, but nationally, he is asking people across the country to vote for him for president because of his eight years experience as south bend mayor, using that as a validater on the campaign trail, talking about it often. that s why i think you see him during events like this saying we need help, i made mistakes, facing up to the things that he
activists in the south bend community. and a lot of that has been brought to the surface by this shooting of a black man at the hands of a police officer last week. and you ve seen that play out over the past week in south bend. but clearly it s something deeper going on. you can t watch the video that s happening right now in south bend and think that s just something that s been created over the last week. it s something deeper than that and clearly something mayor buttigieg has to address in his hometown. i mean, he is from south bend. he notes that often. this is his home and that s why these matters mean so much to him. but it s also something that now he is asking people for their vote. he is campaigning for president. it will impact his candidacy. it is significant because he announced his candidacy to very little fanfare and then very quickly got a lot of momentum and took off. and largely unabated, has risen from 1% candidate to a candidate who is in the top five. and on the v
jason, this audience not holding back. they ve been very anxious about addressing these things with the mayor. what s the perception in the room about how the mayor is handling this? well, look, this audience is angry. there s no question about it. they re angry with the mayor, angry at the chief of police here, and not listening to the head of the naacp, the man who is moderating this town hall. there have been several outbursts throughout this entire town hall from people who are simply fed up. one woman told me she doesn t feel as though there is enough transparency with this department. you ve heard a number of people shouting down the head of the naacp, shouting down mayor buttigieg as well as they try to explain what they re trying to do to get this department back on track. the mayor has already made it very clear at the top of this meeting, he said, look, we ve not done enough he s not done enough to try to get this department to be more diverse. the department is predomina