Justice
Pete Buttigieg and the Police Department: Race Record Under Scrutiny
After a speech surfaced with Pete Buttigieg saying "All Lives Matter" in 2015, racial issues in the South Bend police department, and Buttigieg's role in them, are being scrutinized.
In a 2015 State of the City speech, amid a police department controversy and after calls for impeachment, Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg made an appeal for citizens to respect the police while acknowledging the implicit biases at play in the criminal justice system.
“We need to take both those things seriously,” he said, according to a transcript of the speech reproduced in the South Bend Voice, “for the simple and profound reason that all lives matter.”