'It is as if one member of our family died at the hands of another,' Buttigieg observed to the Democratic audience in Columbia on Saturday.
2020 presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg made reference Saturday morning to the"challenging week" he and his fellow South Bend, Indiana, residents have endured in the wake of an officer-involved shooting of a black man in the Midwestern city.
The South Bend mayor returned home this week to lead a dialogue with residents about the death of Eric Logan, a 54-year-old black man who was shot and killed by Sgt. Ryan O'Neill after O'Neill was called to respond to reports of car burglaries downtown. When O'Neill arrived on scene, he claims, Logan was holding a knife and lunged at him with it, causing O'Neill to fatally discharge his weapon.
In a survey from May for the Black Economic Alliance, only 21 percent of black adults said they had a favorable view of Buttigieg, compared with a 68 percent favorability rating for former Vice President Joe Biden and a 58 percent rating for Senator Bernie Sanders. His return to the campaign trail ahead of next week's first Democratic primary debates in Miami highlights a delicate balance Buttigieg has had to strike between managing the day-to-day affairs of a city of 100,000 people as its chief executive and touring the country to compete in the 2020 race.
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