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And you respond to bhwhat the community has been asking for for years, a citizens review board, period. thank you. >> thank you council woman. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> due to the interest of time, mayor, would you like to respond to that? we do have two more questions. we have been -- >> i'll be brief. first of all, i welcome the spirit of that suggestion. i'm always trying to get more voices to be heard. i don't want to seem defensive, but we've taken a lot of steps. there clearly haven't been enough, but i cannot accept the suggestion that we did nothing. if it were not for the conversa...

It is extremely important to make this point. he's not grappling with 20 years of history, although that cumulative pain can be heard viscerally seen there today. it's during his own administration. what he has failed to take note of. what brother ron talked about the blueing of urban america, how ironic. it's blue all right. not only in terms of its demographics in terms of republican versus democrats, it's thinned in urban america where black people are being policed, their bodies are vulnerable. not only to being rebuffed, handcuffed, batoned, but being tasered and sometimes ultimately kill...

Demote the good ones. how are we supposed to trust this? mayor, when that young man got killed, run over at the stop light, what did you say? what did you say, mayor? you dang near blamed him. how are we supposed to trust you? and you done partnered with a lot of the stuff we done did with my organization. i understand that. but when you mess up, we have to call that out, too. when the city mess up, we have to call that out, too. and our people is hurt. dr. king said, everybody out here want to be martin luther king scholars. i'm not encouraging a riot, but these people is unheard. that's why ...

White. you've got a number of people in this community, frederica, who feel there are members of the police department who are racist. they want them removed. the mayor and the chief of police tried to explain that there is a process for this. if there are allegations of police misconduct, if there are allegations that officers are racist or have used racially insensitive language, there is a process to remove them from the force. but there has been such a history of mistrust here in the community between the community and this police department that you've got folks here who are impatient, qu...

Is mayor pete buttiegieg handling this on a local level? and does this exemplify how he would be able to manage racial tensions that continue much more broadly on a national stage? >> yeah, you know, in my atlantic hat, we have had forums around the country on criminal justice reform. and it's very clear that there is no issue that is more volatile and explosive in our cities than police use of force, particularly in communities of color. and, you know, the kind of issues that you hear in south bend are really evident in cities everywhere. i think, you know, urban america is becoming more blue...