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And audience members will be asking questions about race intentions, police-involved 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 an eight-year period. in fact, this is the sound bite from the mayor who says, work h...

Would believe is better that might lead to more trust, we should explore that. the fourth out of the six is the investigative process more generally. when there is a complaint about an officer, who do you complain to? how do we determine if that complaint is valid? there is a process for that. we can explain and describe that process. perhaps we can also improve it. the board of safety, the way that works, is in the state law, but that doesn't mean that that's all there is to the story. there are things we can do before or after or around it. for that matter, we could -- including -- >> all ri...

Warrant. and so if that is indeed the case that he was making reference to, you know, it is still a deep wound. i don't know the outcome of it because i haven't been able to discern the path, you know, during this three-year span. but if what people are trying to have addressed with the mayor is it's not just the police-involved shooting from one week ago, but while you were mayor three years ago, almost four years ago, there were other issues that arose involving police-involved shootings, white police officer, black subjects and victims of the investigation. so he is being asked to address, ...

Our police force? >> fire the chief. >> mayor pete, if we could address that, because it's going to be important as i look at our community. obviously our police department is here to serve and protect. but if we can't trust our police department, that's difficult for them to do and it's difficult for us to have a relationship of any kind when there's no trust. and so i believe that trust has been broken in our community and we have to do something about it to regain the trust. we can't just have this kind of a meeting and we walk away and not commit ourselves to a process that will bridge thi...

Trying to address is not being dealt with. so mayor pete, again, is avoiding doing a kind of wiggle free from the central issue here. how do we adjudicate competing claims between the police department and the citizens of this city, south bend, who claim that they have been victims of racial bias. and let me say this furthermore. the man who was accused, the police person who killed mr. logan, was already cited for vicious behavior and out of control behavior to begin with toward african-american people. so we have a history here that has to be acknowledged. you can't just dismiss it, you have...