Buttigieg aiming to redeem himself

2020 presidential hopeful and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) called out a man at an Independence Day campaign stop in Iowa who suggested the black residents of his hometown “stop committing crimes and doing drugs.”

“Sir, I think that racism is not going to help us get out of this,” Buttigieg responded.

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The man said his comment had “nothing to do with race” after being booed by the crowd, but Buttigieg responded by arguing that the difference in arrest rates between black and white Americans is evidence of “systemic racism.”

“The fact that a black person is four times as likely as a white person to be incarcerated for the exact same crime is evidence of systemic racism,” Buttigieg said.

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“It is evidence if systemic racism, and with all due respect, sir, racism makes it harder for good police officers to do their job too. It is a smear on law enforcement,” Buttigieg said.

  The Hill