buttigieg in the hot seat at last night s debate. the mayor getting grill body his handling of the deadly shooting of a black man by a white cop in his city. it has outraged residents. your community of south bend, international solidarity movement, has recently been in uproar over officer-involved shooting, the police force in south bend is 6% black in a city that is 26% black. why has that not improved over your two terms as mayor? because i couldn t get it done. my community is in anguish right now because of an officer-involved shooting, a black man, eric logan, killed by a white officer. i m not allowed to take sides until the investigation comes back, the officer said he was attacked with a knife, he didn t have his body camera on. it s a mess. we re hurting.
i don t want to run past stuff like that. there was another moment with mayor buttigieg that i want to play, which was he was asked about which we talked a little bit about before, the lack of diversity given the population of african-americans in south bend. i think the police force only has about 6% african-american officers on the force. 25% black town. right. so he was ask about that. let s play his response. your community of south bend, indiana has recently been in uproar over an officer-involved shooting. the police force in south bend is now 6% black in a city that is 26% black. why has that not improved over your two terms as mayor? because i couldn t get it done. my community is in anguish right now because of an officer-involved shooting, a black man, eric logan, killed by a white officer. and i m not allowed to take sides until the investigation comes back. the officer said he was attacked with a knife, but he didn t have his body camera on. it s a mess. and w
why has that not improved over your two terms as mayor? because i couldn t get it done. my community is in anguish right now, because of an officer involved shooting. a black man killed by a white officer. i m not allowed to take sides until the investigation comes back. the officer said he was attacked with a knife, but he didn t have his body camera on. it s a mess. and we re hurting. because i couldn t get it done. do you give him credit for at least being honest? absolutely. and i think that s the difference between new school politics and old school politics that you saw in joe biden. mayor pete was able to have a moment of vulnerability. i think he will get a lot of credit from everyone in the audience for that. whereas joe biden was unable to admit he evolved his position, he didn t want to admit a mistake. i think that s the difference between old politics and new
welcome back. one of the democratic candidates caught in the middle of a crisis back home as he took to the stage last night, mayor pete buttigieg addressing what s going on in south bend, indiana, as it raises questions about his record there. your community of south bend, indiana, has recently been in an uproar over an officer involved shooting. the police force is 6% black, why is that? because i couldn t get it done. a black man, eric logan, with was killed by a white officer and i m not allowed to take sides unand the officer was said he was attacked with a knife but he didn t have his body camera on. it s a mess and we re hurting and i could walk you through all of the things that we have done as a community. all of the steps we took from
have his body camera on. it s a mess. we re hurting. mayor pete s 2020 arrivals are wasting no time hitting him over his response to that incident. i think that the question they re asking in south bend, and across the country, why has it taken so long? i ve got to respond to that. look, we ve taken so many steps toward police accountability, fop denounced me for too much accountability. i accept responsibility. the camera wasn t on, that is policy and you should fire the chief. under indiana law, this will be investigated and there will be accountability. there is mayor, you should fire the chief if someone died. i think he glared at him, katie, he didn t want to fire the chief. juan: he said he was wrong, the facts, reality of the incident don t go away. i give mayor pete a lot of credit for taking a step back