'Racist' TYT reporter continues smear campaign against Buttigieg

[Celerity]

A must read, this backs up what I have been saying since spring. It also does a great job at fully fleshing out the Boykins (the SB demoted police chief) issue in some depth. The whole Sirota/JD/TYT/DSA/BoBer/Jacobin/Nina Turner etc etc crowd has been camping down in South Bend for 8 months or so in various and sundry permutations, trying to dig up dirt and smear Buttigieg. This was often done with the aid of small local disaffected partisan hacks and outright cranks, many with dodgy personal agendas and reasons (which I also have documented in the past, including a rabidly homophobic SB councilman (now ex) who posted man/dog sex pics to condemn gays in the military), who were then amplified at times by the national press after the far left penumbra had already baked them into the cake.


'Racist' TYT reporter continues smear campaign against Buttigieg

https://orderofthecoif.wordpress.com/2019/10/25/racist-tyt-reporter-continues-smear-campaign-against-buttigieg/

The Young Turks today published the latest in a series of articles about Pete Buttigieg that they’ve characterised as “investigative reporting”. As will be shown in this article, these articles by Jonathan Larsen constitute nothing less than a sustained smear campaign that breaks all the basic rules of good, objective journalism. Mr Larsen consistently relies upon anonymous sources with suspect motivations, and often misleads his readers about the nature of documents on which he purports to rely.

The articles have also consistently pressed the most slanted and unfavourable interpretation against Mr Buttigieg, and relied substantially on innuendo and conspiracy theory dressed up as searching questions. The articles have sought to create an impression that Mr Buttigieg is engaging in racist policies or corrupt conduct, while failing to establish corroborated facts that actually support such an interpretation. This article will also set out Mr Larsen has questions to answer about his own conduct, which has been alleged in open court to include racist bullying, harassment and racial discrimination. Cenk Uygur should explain why a reporter credibly accused of racist conduct is allowed to continue on his staff while the issue remains unresolved.

Secret Tapes

The matter begins in January 2012 when Mr Buttigieg commenced his first term as Mayor of South Bend. Upon taking up a mayoralty, an Indiana mayor will determine who their chief of police shall be. The incumbent is not guaranteed to be appointed to continue under the new mayor. The incumbent chief in South Bend was Chief Darryl Boykins, an African-American police officer who enjoyed the confidence and respect of the community. Mr Buttigieg interviewed three candidates from the South Bend Police Department; Chief Boykins and division chiefs Steve Richmond and Tim Corbett. Mayor Buttigieg decided, based on his performance as chief and his good relations with the community, to reappoint Chief Boykins.

It has been alleged that six days after Mayor Buttigieg took office, on 6th January, 2012, Chief Boykins called division chief Richmond into his office and, “berated him for having been disloyal to him by seeking his job and for being a ‘backstabber'”. Chief Boykins also told Richmond that he had been wiretapping his and other senior officers phone lines, and that “he would fire anyone he determined to be disloyal”. It is also said that on 17th January, Richmond spoke to Karen DePaepe, SBPD Director of Communications, and asked her whether it was true that his line had been tapped. DePaepe responded that the chief requested a line tap “the day he promoted you to division chief”.

Richmond and other officers whose phone lines it transpired had been tapped by DePaepe at the request of the chief since 2010, went to the US Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, a Democrat Mr David Capp (who was incidentally later fired by Donald Trump), to complain about the taps which they interpreted to be illegal breaches of their constitutional 4th amendment rights. The FBI commenced an investigation of Chief Boykins, and Mayor Buttigieg was informed. Prior to this the mayor was unaware of the existence of the tapes. The US Attorney informed the mayor that if Chief Boykins was quietly dispensed with as head of the SBPD, they would agree not to press charges.

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a lot more at the link, all documented, including the court documents showing the all The Young Turks and their reporter's alleged racism

[George II]

1. Everything and everyone associated with TYT is sleazy.

[OldRed2450]

2. Yep.

Sleazy propaganda. The people that like them only do because they have trouble hearing anything but loyal voices. Just like FOX viewers.

[cwydro]

3. Rec

[TheFarseer]

4. First off

I have no idea who is right. Aren’t you just believing the other side of the he said she said? How can we know what is correct unless the tapes are released? Also, I may have missed where the reporter is racist. If he’s racist, why would he be on the side of the black police chief? Again, not taking a side, just trying to understand.

[Celerity]

5. did you read the article? It goes into great detail (and linked documentation) on all that.

The tapes btw, (which almost no one has heard, including Buttigieg) have been ruled by every controlling legal authority so far to be illegal wiretapping. Not only would have Buttigieg been breaking the law by releasing them, but he would have opened up to city to multi-millions in potential civil lawsuit liability.