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In reply to the discussion: Bernie co-chair Ro Khanna just called Pete Buttigieg "intellectually dishonest" [View all]JonLP24
(29,929 posts)Pete Buttigieg Fired South Bends 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 Bends 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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/us/politics/buttigieg-black-police-chief-fired.html?searchResultPosition=1
I think TYT went down and learned additional information relating to this according to their sources. In any case I'm just the messenger.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided