More Calls for Mayor Pete’s Resignation

Six shootings occurred the weekend of his town hall. In one instance, a witness reported that the shooter was aiming specifically at police. "To start with trying to heal, the mayor just needs to resign," activist and pastor Mario Sims told the Washington Free Beacon, adding that Buttigieg should demote Police Chief Scott Ruszkowski to cleanse the department of bad blood.

Sims also added that he believes Buttigieg is racially "tone-deaf" and should consider retiring from politics until he has "spent some time evaluating this."

"I understand political ambition, I understand that," Sims said. "But you're playing games with the lives of the people here, and innocent police officers."

Sims has clashed with Buttigieg in the past, speaking out against the mayor's decision to demote Boykins. That decision, coupled with Buttigieg's lack of transparency following it, Sims said, has opened a rift between South Bend's police and its black communities that disqualifies Buttigieg from political legitimacy.

"Right now there's no way he can stand on the stage and honestly talk about the issues pressing this country when he can't even successfully address the dire issues of race, lack of diversity, and poverty, not to mention the homeless issue in this city," Sims said. "If you can't even address those issues in a city of 100,000, my God, how can you address those issues in 50 states?"

Former president of South Bend's Board of Public Safety Pat Cottrell also told the Free Beacon that Buttigieg should resign and that the mayor should "definitely not" be running for president after this latest incident.

Cottrell said that in addition to Buttigieg’s checkered record on racial issues, the mayor has been a poor administrator when faced with internal disagreements in city government.

"Pete is a fraud," he said.

Maybe mayor Pete should spend more time in his city, doing the job he was elected to do. How much time does he spend in his city doing his day job? Or is he absent much of the time as he runs for president?

“nothing would go farther in driving black and Hispanic voters toward Trump that if the Democrats forced Buttplug down their throats.” Don’t forget the southern evangelicals. Some of them clutch on to their old-time Rat roots and have found it hard to let go their party. This would do it.

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