Breaking: Pete Buttigieg drops out of the Democratic presidential race ahead of Super Tuesday
for his handling of the city’s police department.
Shortly after arriving in office in 2012, Buttigieg fired the city’s black police chief, who was accused of improperly recording police colleagues who were allegedly making racist remarks. The number of black officers in the department dwindled dramatically during Buttigieg’s tenure. Those tensions exploded into the open in dramatic fashion during Buttigieg’s campaign in June 2019, when a white officer shot a black man who the officer said threatened him with a knife. But the officer’s body camera had not been turned on, leaving the incident shrouded in uncertainty.who sat somberly on stage and who acknowledged that his efforts to address residents’ concerns about policing “clearly haven’t been enough.
“You might as well just withdraw your name from the presidential race,” said a woman at the raucous June meeting. “His presidential campaign is over. ... I believe that today ended his campaign.”
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