South Bend Police Union Trashes Buttigieg: Focus On Shooting Case Is ‘Solely For His Political Gain’

On Monday, the South Bend, Indiana, police union issued a press release absolutely ripping Mayor Pete Buttigieg, saying, “For Mayor and Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg to make disparaging remarks such as ‘All Police work and all of American Life takes place in the shadow of racism’ is divisive. Mayor Buttigieg’s focus on this incident is solely for his political gain and not the health of the city he serves.”

The incident the press release was referencing was the June 16 shooting of Eric Logan, who was black and was shot and killed by officer Sgt. Ryan O’Neill. Fox News explained, “O’Neill, who is white, was responding to a report of a suspicious person breaking into cars when investigators said he fired one shot that hit Logan and another that missed after Logan threatened him with a knife. The investigators said O’Neill’s body camera wasn’t automatically activated because he was driving slowly without emergency lights while looking through an apartment building parking lot.”