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Officers by name and that's a man in the audience mentioned, aaron nepper, that's 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 doesn't 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 police department, is now at 5%. so this is a pivotal moment for pete buttiegieg. not only as his ten...

Question, but from the scene itself, metro homicide is immediately called. they come to the scene and we relinquish the scene. those officers that are on scene, whoever the commanders or supervisors are relinquish to metro homicide. homicide does what they do with any investigation, which is to transport witnesses down and whoever may be involved and take statements at the metro homicide unit. immediately, our south bend offer certificates, unless they're involved in an actual incident, will not be involved in the investigation. >> south bend police chief there taking the first question really...

>> we are going to go ahead and move on unless you have anything else you want to add, chief, mayor. i'll move on to the next resident. >> no, no, i want to know who wrote that -- >> right. >> who wrote the loophole? you're the policy writer, right? you're the policy expert. >> the policy was approved by the board of safety. >> wrote who it? >> i do not know who drafted it, but i believe that it was drawn from model policies from around the country. and, again -- >> so it was copy and paste, right? >> per the general order, my view is that under the current policy, when an officer on a call en...

It's at the officer's discretion if the cameras turn on, turnoff, headlights have to be on, they have to felipe switch. all this stuff, right? then it's like, maybe they could, maybe -- maybe if it's bad enough they could record. you know, record the situation. why wasn't it already mandatory in the policy that you record every interaction with citizens? it makes no sense. it makes no sense. it's paid for. you already knew people were upset about it so it should have been dealt with. and -- one last thing, i'm sorry. one last thing. since you fired boykins for federal investigation -- if there...

>> yes. >> no, we don't need her to speak. >> please, everyone. >> the truth will never want to get heard, but we're going to speak it today because in order for justice to be served in the appropriate manner, the truth must go forward. since we want to have church for our churchgoers -- hold on, that's going to be the first -- i'm going to sum this up real quick. in the book of proverbs -- >> audience members are continuing to ask questions of the mayor directly about their frustrations. i want to bring into our panel, we have michael eric dyson who is with us and cnn senior political analyst...