Thread by @PushBidenLeft

🧵 THREAD: Joe and Kamala aren't the only members of the Biden administration who enable and empower racist cops.

Here's a brief look at Pete Buttigieg's similarly terrible track record on policing - it's even worse than you might think. 1/13

After Mayor Pete lied about demoting South Bend’s first black police chief for exposing racism in the force, he fired those calling for an investigation.

Buttigieg's inner circle then loaned money to the racist cops while the black folks they arrested remained in jail. 2/13

One of the racist cops w/ a history of fireable offenses that Mayor Pete let stay on the force without a body cam then shot and killed an elderly black man.

Buttigieg spoke to media before the victim’s family and gave a speech to police instead of attending the vigil. 3/13

Mayor Pete refused to fire the racist cops who 1) posted video of themselves torturing a disabled man and 2) beat and tased an innocent black teen after breaking into his house.

The family received an insulting $18 in compensation. 4/13

Mayor Pete said he had "a lot of concerns" about mandating body cameras and did nothing when South Bend cops turned theirs off before pretending to be KKK members while arresting a black man. 5/13

After Mayor Pete's racist cops refused to examine the apparent lynching of a black teen, the boy's mother begged Buttigieg to investigate.

He ignored her cries for help. 6/13

When a South Bend cop began selling shirts mocking Eric Garner's "I can't breathe" quote, Mayor Pete defended it as a statement about police safety.

When his city council demanded the sales be stopped, Buttigieg defended the racist vendor's "free speech." 7/13

Buttigieg responded to the outrage over his mishandling of police racism by saying "all lives matter." 8/13

Buttigieg also stood alone in supporting the Jim Crow laws specifically enacted to suppress black voting rights with incarceration. 9/13

Mayor Pete also doubled South Bend's eviction rate, sending cops to push 3x more (disproportionately black) people out of their homes than the national average. 10/13

Instead of working to decrease police brutality, Mayor Pete wanted cops to emulate Israeli occupation forces that regularly massacre civilians, just like the Memphis police department that murdered Tyre Nichols was trained to do. 11/13

South Bend had to pay a shocking $1,300,000 in settlements over police misconduct just in Mayor Pete's first term alone.

Meanwhile, half of the city's nonwhite cops left the force due to the racism they experienced under Buttigieg. 12/13

As racial disparities in Mayor Pete's police force rose ~40% higher than the national average, Black Lives Matter demanded he resign.

Instead, he failed up, running for president before endorsing Biden in exchange for the bribe of yet another job he's unqualified to hold. 13/13