His message has been simple: his successes in revitalizing the rust-belt city of South Bend can be replicated across the US. But Logan’s death has spotlighted another area of Buttigieg’s record: his troubled relationships with the South Bend police and his city’s large minority population. All of these are symptoms of a larger issue of injustice,” South Bend resident Tiana Batiste-Wadell said. Instead, there’s a sense that his policies are failing lower-income and minority residents, and South Bend is a reflection of the nation’s larger problems. The calls revealed white officers using racial slurs, some of which were directed at Boykins.

Source: The Guardian June 27, 2019 06:00 UTC