The Long Run: Pete Buttigieg Fired South Bend's Black Police Chief. It Still Stings.

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' Pete Buttigieg had been mayor just 13 weeks when he faced a leadership crisis. . .

“It felt stomach-churning,” Mr. Buttigieg recalled of the night of the 2012 protest, speaking in an interview. “To know that that same day, we were at what even then I understood was going to be the beginning of an incredibly painful and divisive moment of race relations in my city.”

At that time, Mr. Buttigieg said he removed his police chief because he had lost faith in him after discovering the F.B.I. was investigating him for secretly taping officers’ phone calls. The chief sued the city for racial discrimination over his firing and won $50,000 in 2013. Four white officers sued the city for invasion of privacy and defamation and won a $500,000 payout the same year. . .

In a political memoir released this year, Mr. Buttigieg wrote that the police tapes case “affected my relationship with the African-American community in particular for years to come.” . .

At issue in the police taping story are some of the most charged issues in municipal and national politics, including surveillance and personal privacy, government transparency and allegations of racism and unlawful behavior by the police.

Kareemah Fowler, the South Bend city clerk and a political ally of Mr. Buttigieg, said she believed the mayor had worked hard “trying to bridge the gap” between African-Americans and whites in the city.'