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Place in south bend, indiana, and the mayor of south bend, indiana, pete buttiegieg, who is a presidential candidate. right now there are generic questions being asked about the procedures of police-involved shootings. the reason why they have this town hall meeting is because there was a police-involved shooting one week ago. a white police officer, a black man, the black man died, and in addition, separately, a shooting that took place at a bar earlier this morning. ten people have been shot. one died, and so the mayor opened up by saying, you know, this is a city that is hurting. this is a ...

Question and answer. we have about ten minutes or so left. there we go. we're on. >> yes, thank you so much. we are going to take a few more questions and, blue, would you like to have a question? >> yes, ma'am. >> all power to the people. all power to the people. my name is blue casey, founder of new black power in south bend and youth foundation. i'm a shooting victim of last month on mother's day. she shot my recording studio up two times. i caught two of them. one in my backside, came out. one in my foot, i had a bullet in my foot a whole week. i worked with the city numerous occasions. i ...

This is something that's swept across the country, continues to and has for decades historically. but how this mayor addresses it and how he's able to either bring promise or bring results, i mean, what can the expectations be while he's also on the campaign trail for national office? >> that's a great point. look, being cute, liberal, progressive, gay are tremendous attractions and appeals to us, but it can't absolve you of the responsibility of dealing with tough questions. neither can joe biden being wise, grisleed wise in the tooth address the issue of race. young and old have to understan...

>> it's a difficult process to do to even conceive. again, when it comes to law, legalities, contract, it's difficult to give information out. however, and i've heard this and i'm glad you mentioned this as well. when officers say that they were wrongly dismissed or wrongly whatever the police department, as you saw this internal affairs or administrative advisory is floating around all over the place. >> sure, sure. >> those cannot be released except for court order or subpoena or if the officer -- any officer -- say, for example, an officer left the police department and they say how they we...

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 we're 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 acknowledge the problem is critical because if you try to pretend it doesn't exist, if you do the proverb...