Buttigieg Criticized on Racial Grounds at Emotional Town Hall After Shooting

Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg looks on during a town hall community meeting, in South Bend, Ind., on June 23, 2019. Robert Franklin/South Bend Tribune via AP

SOUTH BEND, Ind.—Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg faced criticism on June 23 from angry residents of South Bend, Indiana, at an emotional town hall meeting a week after a white police officer fatally shot a black man in the city where he is mayor.

Buttigieg said he would call for an outside investigation of the shooting of 54-year-old Eric Logan by Sgt. Ryan O'Neill.