Some minority leaders in South Bend say the case is an example of tone deafness on the part of a rising star in the 2020 Democratic field. Four white officers sued the city for invasion of privacy and defamation and won a $500,000 payout the same year. The chief sued the city for racial discrimination over his firing and won $50,000 in 2013. was investigating him for secretly taping officers’ phone calls. Buttigieg said he removed his police chief because he had lost faith in him after discovering the F.B.I.
“To know that that same day, we were at what even then I understood was going to be the beginning of an incredibly painful and divisive moment of race relations in my city.”Īt that time, Mr. Buttigieg recalled of the night of the 2012 protest, speaking in an interview. Boykins’ dismissal and its messy aftermath raise questions whether the mayor either misunderstood or mishandled sensitivities surrounding race and policing in the place he knew best, a city which is 37 percent black and Latino. Buttigieg seeks the Democratic nomination in a party whose base is anchored by minority voters, his handling of Mr. Buttigieg extols in his presidential bid.Īs Mr. The events played out against a backdrop of frustration among some African-Americans that they have not benefited equally from an economic resurgence in South Bend, which Mr. Boykins’s dismissal, he was applauded at a gathering of 100 officers, council members and clergy. Boykins unleashed a blizzard of claims, counterclaims and lawsuits, as well as anguish among South Bend’s minority residents over whether an ambitious white mayor had sided with white police officers against a black chief. In the weeks, months and years that followed, the removal of Mr. Buttigieg has refused to release them, saying the matter is still being resolved in court. Precisely what they said on the tapes of their department phone calls is unknown to the public: Mr. No action was taken against the officers. Boykins, the 29-year-old mayor fired the veteran police chief just before the Trayvon Martin protest. With federal prosecutors scrutinizing Mr. Boykins had improperly taped phone calls of senior white officers who were said to have used racist language, including about him. What no one in the crowd knew was that the police top brass were in turmoil - shaken by allegations that Mr. Buttigieg addressed the protesters, but seemed not to interact with Mr. Admired for teaching tennis and boxing to young people, he had been promoted to chief five years earlier after winning the respect of both black and white officers in a department that sometimes divided along racial lines. It was March 2012, and 300 residents of South Bend, Ind., solemnly marched to the Martin Luther King Center to protest the killing in Florida of a black teenager, Trayvon Martin.Ī prominent figure at the demonstration was Darryl Boykins, South Bend’s first black police chief. Pete Buttigieg had been mayor just 13 weeks when he faced a leadership crisis. The account added that Carlson is “pathetic.”Īctor George Takei wondered if Carlson “was abandoned as an infant and stayed that way.SOUTH BEND, Ind.
VoteVets, an organization that works to get former servicemembers elected, tweeted, “Tucker belittles a Navy vet for being a good dad, throwing not-so-thinly veiled homophobic jabs, and lying through his teeth about current affairs.” Others criticized Carlson for emasculating a veteran, posting photos of Buttigieg in his military uniform. “Fox & Friends First” host Todd Piro also took six weeks of paternity leave earlier this year, which is the amount of paid time Fox News Media offers all parents. The piece details how Fox News host Jesse Watters became pro-paternity leave after the birth of his third child. “Did mock his own colleagues in the same fashion?” asked MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, linking to an article from April. Pete Buttigieg Welcomes Twins With Husband Chasten, Colleagues Celebrate: ‘Happy News We All Can Use’
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