{"id":177117,"date":"2019-12-19T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/12\/19\/if-this-comes-up-in-the-debates-buttigieg-is-toast\/"},"modified":"2019-12-19T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T00:50:00","slug":"if-this-comes-up-in-the-debates-buttigieg-is-toast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/12\/19\/if-this-comes-up-in-the-debates-buttigieg-is-toast\/","title":{"rendered":"If This Comes Up in the Debates, Buttigieg is Toast"},"content":{"rendered":"

I say, with no exaggeration, that Pete Buttigieg has the most racist record of any mainstream Democratic Presidential candidate since \u2026\u2026\u2026 Checks notes \u2026\u2026\u2026 George Wallace.<\/p>\n

He took homes from black people to give to (largely white) developers in the name of “Redevelopment”, and he has studiously refused addressing the deep, entrenched, and extreme racism of the South Bend police force, such as when he fired a black police chief who uncovered incontrovertible evidence of racism in the ranks.<\/p>\n

In the latest incident, his police force was literally quoting KKK quotes from the movie Django Unchained<\/i> while they were busting down a black man’s door<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pete Buttigieg may have inherited a racist police department, but he has chosen to do nothing to fix the problem:<\/p>\n

While the South Bend Police Department arrested a black resident on Wednesday, officers gleefully quoted a scene from Quentin Tarantino\u2019s \u201cDjango Unchained\u201d in which hooded KKK members bicker amongst themselves while riding to kill Jamie Fox\u2019s character, Django.<\/span>

<\/span>The individual being arrested, 21-year-old African American Marko Mosgrove, broadcasted his arrest to Facebook. Multiple officers with guns and shields over their faces rammed into the man\u2019s home before they discovered his phone was livestreaming.<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cHey, that phone is recording,\u201d an officer says, six minutes and 17 seconds into the livestream. The officers then turn the phone around, resulting in the screen going black.<\/span>

<\/span>But the audio continued broadcasting throughout the arrest as officers reenacted the film\u2019s scene.<\/span>

<\/span>18 minutes and 23 seconds into the livestream, an unknown officer giggles while asking: \u201cYou know what\u2019s a good idea for your kid? Is a skull mask in case you have to shoot a guy.\u201d<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cDude, this is how you rob banks, alright?\u201d another officer responds. A few seconds later, an unknown officer imitates a KKK member from the film struggling to see through his Klan hood.<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cI can\u2019t see fu**king sh*t out of this thing!,\u201d the officer says while laughing, mimicking the scene from Tarantino\u2019s Western bloodbath where KKK members argue with one another over their Klan hoods not fitting their faces.<\/span>

<\/span>An officer responds by asking if the quote was from the film \u201cThe Boondock Saints.\u201d<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cNo, Django Unchained,\u201d the other officer responds. An officer then continues to quote from the KKK scene, mimicking a Klan member who defended his wife who worked for hours making the hoods for the KKK members.<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cMy wife was up all\u2026\u201d the officer says before audio temporarily cuts out. Another officer responds by continuing the reenactment, quoting theKKK member from the scene who tried to diffuse the situation.<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cI think we all agree that these were a nice idea,\u201d the officer imitates.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t care what is in Buttigieg’s heart, I care what he does, and it’s clear that he does not give a flying f%$# about the minority residents of his town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I say, with no exaggeration, that Pete Buttigieg has the most racist record of any mainstream Democratic Presidential candidate since \u2026\u2026\u2026 Checks notes \u2026\u2026\u2026 George Wallace. He took homes from black people to give to (largely white) developers in the name of “Redevelopment”, and he has studiously refused addressing the deep, entrenched, and extreme racism …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[526,405,398],"class_list":["post-177117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}