South Bend Police Scorch Buttigieg After Pizza Stunt: ‘Drop the Politics’
South Bend Police Scorch Buttigieg After Pizza Stunt: ‘Drop the Politics’
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By C. Douglas Golden
Published July 13, 2019 at 9:36am
Mayor Pete Buttigieg seemed destined to escape the provincial orbit of his political life in South Bend, Indiana, when his opponents in the Democrat nomination process finally figured out a way to score points against him: A white police officer back in his home city had shot a black suspect purportedly armed with a knife while his body camera was off.
This led to predictable triangulations. Before his exeunt from the race due to generating not even the slightest amount of interest, Rep. Eric Swalwell of California suggested that Buttigieg should fire the police chief without even conducting an investigation.
Most politicians weren’t willing to go that far, but back in Indiana, there were plenty of former South Bend officials and current activists calling for his resignation.
So, Buttigieg did what any good Democrat nominee in 2019 would do and tracked to the left, more or less abandoning the police to their own devices and insinuating they were racist. Then the police revolted, so he bought them pizza. No, really. This is a guy running for president of the United States, too.