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U.S. NEWS Monday 24 June 2019

Buttigieg criticized at emotional

town hall after shooting

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — black. "Get the people that who came from the pub
Democratic presidential are racist off the streets," to the hospital where the
candidate Pete Buttigieg one woman in the audi- wounded were taken. It
faced criticism Sunday ence said. "Reorganize was not immediately clear
from angry residents of your department. You can what prompted the shoot-
South Bend, Indiana, at an do that by Friday." ing. Asked after the town
emotional town hall meet- Buttigieg left the campaign hall meeting about the lat-
ing a week after a white trail for several days to deal est shooting, Buttigieg de-
police officer fatally shot a with the reaction to the scribed it as a "reversal" af- Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend Mayor
black man in the city where shooting, holding a late ter progress in curbing vio- Pete Buttigieg answers questions during a town hall community
he is mayor. night news conference, lence in South Bend earlier meeting, Sunday, June 23, 2019, at Washington High School in
Buttigieg (BOO'-tuh-juhj) meeting with the family of this year and in 2018.q South Bend, Ind. Associated Press
said he would call for an the man killed and address-
outside investigation of the ing a protest rally where he
shooting of 54-year-old Eric was heckled by some in
Logan by Sgt. Ryan O'Neill. the crowd.
The 37-year-old mayor said The June 16 shooting hap-
he would send a letter to pened after O'Neill re-
the federal Department of sponded to a call about
Justice's civil rights division a suspicious person going
and notify the local pros- through vehicles, a pros-
ecutor that he'd like an ecutor investigating the
independent investigator case said. O'Neill spotted
appointed. He conceded Logan leaning inside a car.
that his administration had When confronted, Logan
failed on two key initiatives. approached O'Neill with
"The effort to recruit more a 6- to 8-inch knife raised
minority officers to the po- over his head, the prosecu-
lice department and the tor said. O'Neill fired twice,
effort to introduce body with the other shot hitting a
cameras have not suc- car door.
ceeded and I accept re- Violence flared again in
sponsibility for that," Butti- South Bend early Sunday
gieg said. when a shooting at a pub
Prosecutors investigating left one man dead and
said that the shooting was 10 people injured, the St.
not recorded by O'Neill's Joseph County Metro Ho-
body camera. micide Unit said. Five of
The town hall grew conten- the wounded remained in
tious when some commu- hospital in stable condition
nity members questioned later Sunday. County Sher-
whether the mayor had iff William Redmond said
done enough to reform his officers assisted South
the police department in Bend police in controlling
the city of 100,000 people, a crowd of more than 100
which is about a quarter "upset and angry citizens"
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