Tag: systemic racism

Though Pete Buttigieg has made a dramatic rise in the Democratic Presidential primary — hauling in $24.8 million in second quarter fundraising, making an impressive showing in the first TV debate and even beating Trump in a general election poll — he still has a sore spot on his mayoral record that could undermine his candidacy unless he pays serious attention to it: His handling of racialized police violence in his hometown of South Bend, Indiana. We’re not just talking...

At an Iowa Democratic Party barbecue in Carroll County on Thursday, a man named Dave Bagley told South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg that recent troubles between South Bend, Indiana’s police department and its local black community would improve if black people would just “stop committing crime and doing drugs.” During a Q&A portion of the barbecue, Bagley said, “Mayor Pete, there has been some controversy in South Bend between the police and the black community, and I have a solution...