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And audience members will be asking questions about race intentions, policeinvolved shooting, a white Police Officer a week a ago and a black man. Eric dyson joining me now about how the black Police Officer was let go soon after the mayor took office. The mayor the chief. Through our own cnn reporting, that police chief was replaced by two other Police Officers, both white, and cnn was also able to uncover the makeup the makeup of the police force in terms of diversity has gone down, about 5 in...

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Officers by name and thats a man in the audience mentioned, aaron nepper, thats somebody we looked into in our piece, get into the many allegations against aaron nepper and the fact he remains on the force and how it impacts people in the community to this day. the other factor that we write about is that the police department doesnt reflect the african-american community in south bend. in 2014, 10% of the police force was african-american. that number in 2019, according to the south bend poli...

Activists in the south bend community. and a lot of that has been brought to the surface by this shooting of a black man at the hands of a police officer last week. and youve seen that play out over the past week in south bend. but clearly its something deeper going on. you cant watch the video thats happening right now in south bend and think thats just something thats been created over the last week. its something deeper than that and clearly something mayor buttigieg has to address in his hom...

Jason, this audience not holding back. theyve been very anxious about addressing these things with the mayor. whats the perception in the room about how the mayor is handling this? >> well, look, this audience is angry. theres no question about it. theyre angry with the mayor, angry at the chief of police here, and not listening to the head of the naacp, the man who is moderating this town hall. there have been several outbursts throughout this entire town hall from people who are simply fed up....

Back in the day. you were making the point of acknowledgment goes a long way. >> right. >> and here you have this mayor who is admitting to the failings and also acknowledging those failings and committing to do something about them. does that count for something, particularly when were talking about the leader of a city and now one on a national stage who is vying for an even bigger office at 1600 pennsylvania? >> right. well, it remains to be seen. yes, but it does make a difference. to acknow...

That many of these cities are achieving economic growth that they have not seen in decades and yet very little of it is benefiting their own kids from low income and minority neighborhoods. and its become, i think, a kind of very volatile combination that is evident even in south bend. dan can probably speak to that more than i, but certainly something you see behind kind of underneath the kind of immediate flash point like theyre experiencing there right now. >> right, left behind, not somethin...