Mayor Pete’s Policing Problem

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🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Eric Logan, a black resident in South Bend, Indiana, was shot and killed by a police officer in the early morning hours on Father’s Day. Mayor Pete Buttigieg returned to the city, putting a halt to his presidential campaign, to deal with the fallout. The return home hasn’t been so welcoming. Guest: Adam Wren, contributing editor at POLITICO and Indianapolis Monthly Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When Mayor Pete Buttigieg needs to speak to his black constituents in South Bend, Indiana,
0:09.9	he has this place that he shows up.
0:11.6	He goes to this little sort of scrappy radio studio.
0:16.9	It's called WBS.
0:18.9	It's in his hometown.
0:19.9	It plays gospel music.
0:22.0	Politico's Adam Ren was listening when Buttigieg showed up there last week.
0:26.0	It's run by kind of a local black pastor who has some influence in the community.
0:31.7	Mayor Pete joined that local black pastor, Reverend Williams, because he wanted to talk about
0:37.2	the shooting of Eric Logan, a 54-year-old black man who was killed by South Bend police
0:42.6	on Father's Day.
0:44.0	We have with us Mayor Pete Buttigieg here today, he's running two campaigns.
0:52.4	One is for the presidency of the United States of America, and the other is damage control.
1:00.6	Welcome Mayor.
1:04.6	When Mayor Pete arrives in the studio last week to do this interview, the Reverend sort
1:09.9	of reads this two to three-minute statement about how black Americans have endured police
1:16.4	violence for months and months and years and really holds Pete Buttigieg's feet to
1:23.5	the fire on this issue.
1:25.6	The question I'd like to ask you today for our listeners is why are you here?
1:33.2	Well, I'm here because this is my home.
1:37.1	If all you know about Pete Buttigieg is that he has a funny name and he's running for
1:41.2	president, the strong reactions he's getting in his hometown after this police shooting
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