BREAKING: Buttigieg leaves campaign trail; will skip DNC's LGBTQ gala in NYC

[brooklynite]

“Mayor Pete Buttigieg has stepped off the presidential campaign trail following a deadly shooting by a police officer in his city and canceled a planned appearance Monday at an LGBTQ gala in New York hosted by the Democratic National Committee,” the Washington Post reports.

Said Buttigieg: “We’ve had prior cases of use-of-force incidents and officer-involved shootings where I hesitated, frankly, to get in front of cameras because we didn’t know very much, and it was out of our hands. What I was told by people in the community is that it is important to open channels of communication to try to be clear on where the city is, even if we don’t find ourselves in a position to be able to say or do much right away.”

https://politicalwire.com/2019/06/17/buttigieg-returns-home-after-police-shooting/

[Botany]

1. Mayor Pete is thoughtful

n/t

[Glorfindel]

2. Doing the right thing. I'd love to have him (or any Democrat) as president

but in the meantime, he has a job he was elected to do. I admire him for doing his duty.

[crazytown]

3. A white police officer rally shoots a 53yo black man, Eric Logan.

The Logan's widow says 'In 30 years of marriage I've never seen him resist an officer'. The police officer says Logan was rifling through a car, then approached him with a knife. The family will be holding a vigil at the site of the shooting.

https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/south-bend-police-shooting-sparks-investigation

[brer cat]

4. TY

I respect Mayor Pete's decision to pause his campaign to deal with what will be a painful period for his city.

[Blue_playwright]

12. I'm horrified

Not only at the fact that it happened again but also that any woman would describe it that way. She never saw him resist an officer. That means he has been targeted, likely, his whole life and this isn’t an isolated incident. My journalist background tells me to think “allegedly” and that maybe he was a bad guy who lunged with a knife. But history tells me that the “other side” is rarely the case. 🤨

Where are we as a culture that a wife would need to describe her husband that way? And where are we that repeated opportunity to “resist” - implying Times he was held/talked to on baseless allegations is a real thing?

[crazytown]

13. Mayor Pete instituted a program of always on body cams.

Hopefully the truth will out
https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/publicsafety/south-bend-police-on-track-to-equip-body-cameras-by/article_f63c95e6-d01f-5d00-a239-d1779e5fd13c.html

[JustAnotherGen]

14. I saw it too

Thank you for expressing it so clearly.

[TygrBright]

5. Mayor Pete demonstrates a thing called "priorities" and how to do them correctly. n/t

[mountain grammy]

6. I have faith in this man.

[marylandblue]

7. I love Pete, but he had no choice, politically speaking.

This could make or break him with the AA community.

[crazytown]

8. At Mayor Pete's initiative, Officers have been fitted with body cams

to be always on. That is something.

South Bend police on track to equip body cameras by June 1
https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/publicsafety/south-bend-police-on-track-to-equip-body-cameras-by/article_f63c95e6-d01f-5d00-a239-d1779e5fd13c.html

[Amaryllis]

18. He may have had no choice, but I believe he is committed to doing what is right, regardless

of what is politically correct. His city needs him. They need his empathy and compassion, both of which he has. He will be a great comfort to them. Like Obama, he knows what is needed and does it because it's just who he is.

[think4yourself]

9. Total respect.

I wish him all the best in finding solutions to this horrible epidemic of police brutality. If he chooses to get back on the trail, I support him there, too.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

10. He is a good leader. Blessings.

[Nanjeanne]

11. A thoughtful response to a terrible tragedy.

[BigOleDummy]

15. How can anybody

Not like this man? I respect and support his decision. He's doing the right thing regardless of the consequences that this absence will do to his campaign. Could do to his campaign I should say. Much much respect for Mr. Buttigieg.

[corbettkroehler]

16. This Issue Needs Improvement On Both Sides

We're seeing innocent (often unarmed) people either shot or killed (murdered) by cops all too often and, at the same time, dedicated first responders falling like flies all over the country in the normal course of their duties protecting and serving the public.

I appreciate Mayor Pete's efforts here and hope that they lead to an open dialog on both sides of this tragic issue.

[VarryOn]

17. He had no choice nt

[ecstatic]

20. Good move. County/State sanctioned murder is way out of control

The video/ audio from many of these encounters consists of cops threatening deadly force, giving conflicting orders and/or pretending to see a gun.

And when you look at the actions of the Parkland school cop, it's clear that some cops are more concerned about preserving their own lives at the expense of civilians. That's not fair. They signed up for all the risks, we did not.

So whether it's a case of over the top risk aversion or outright sociopathic behavior, something has to be done, finally, to protect innocent civilians. Even when people aren't innocent, they deserve a day in court as opposed to one cop playing judge, jury, and executioner.

I hope Pete gets to the bottom of whatever happened in this latest case, and that he crafts a specific plan for police reform that would be federally enforced.