How Will Mayor Pete Answer questions

[sagesnow]

about his firing of South Bend's Police Chief at the request of his donors? I'm worried this will be a problem for him in the General Election.

[George II]

1. "At the request of his donors"? C'mon man......

Pete Buttigieg Fired South Bend’s Black Police Chief. It Still Stings.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Pete Buttigieg had been mayor just 13 weeks when he faced a leadership crisis.

It was March 2012, and 300 residents of South Bend, Ind., solemnly marched to the Martin Luther King Center to protest the killing in Florida of a black teenager, Trayvon Martin.

A prominent figure at the demonstration was Darryl Boykins, South Bend’s first black police chief. Admired for teaching tennis and boxing to young people, he had been promoted to chief five years earlier after winning the respect of both black and white officers in a department that sometimes divided along racial lines.

Mr. Buttigieg addressed the protesters, but seemed not to interact with Mr. Boykins. What no one in the crowd knew was that the police top brass were in turmoil — shaken by allegations that Mr. Boykins had improperly taped phone calls of senior white officers who were said to have used racist language, including about him.

With federal prosecutors scrutinizing Mr. Boykins, the 29-year-old mayor fired the veteran police chief just before the Trayvon Martin protest. No action was taken against the officers. Precisely what they said on the tapes of their department phone calls is unknown to the public: Mr. Buttigieg has refused to release them, saying the matter is still being resolved in court.

(more....)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/us/politics/buttigieg-black-police-chief-fired.html

[MineralMan]

2. No worries. I don't think he needs to worry about the General Election

at all. Really.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Right. Because you're pretty sure he won't be the nominee.

[MineralMan]

7. Yes. Pretty sure.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. If you're a mayor or whatever in city government, you're going to probably fire people, as well...

as hire people, etc. Using this one event to determine one's presidential campaign direction? Come on now, be reasonable. No impact.

[babylonsister]

4. Concern noted. nt

[madville]

6. Was he fired or demoted?

Because I recall him being demoted to detective so he could finish out and receive full retirement credit.

Also, it has been reported that the US Attorney for Indiana at the time (an Obama appointee) made a deal with the mayor to demote the Chief in order avoid the spectacle of charging him with multiple wiretapping felonies.

[Mr.Bill]

8. I'm thinking about 99.9% of the country

doesn't really care about the police chief in South Bend.