His mother called it murder.
She asked Mayor @PeteButtigieg for help. He told her to call the office, and then never called back.
Here’s the story.
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Jeff spoke to officials and obtained police records.
@TYTInvestigates asked him to finish the story for us.
None of what he found has been made public until now.
These include the death certificate, coroner and police reports, and a letter written by Jiha'd's sister claiming that his classmates knew about the death before police showed up.
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Jiha'd was hanged with a portion of the bedsheet he had brought for a sleepover at a friend's. But the rest of the sheet is unaccounted for.
And there was no note.
Here are the minutes showing she told her story at an August 2012 meeting attended by Buttigieg:
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Buttigieg had demoted the city's first black police chief over secret tapes that allegedly captured other SBPD using racial slurs.
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was the very coroner whose findings Jones was now asking Buttigieg to help her challenge.
And a fellow city employee back then...city attorney Rich Hill...had been instrumental in ousting the black chief, after Buttigieg brought Hill in as outside counsel to help with the tapes issue.