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While campaigning at a staged event in Iowa an audience plant urged him to tell the black people of South Bend to stop committing crime and doing drugs,<ref>https://townhall.com/columnists/sheriffdavidclarke(ret)/2019/07/16/mayor-pete-gets-dragged-into-the-deep-end-of-pool-on-race-politics-n2550133</ref> Buttigieg stated: "The fact that a black person is four times as likely as a white person to be incarcerated for the exact same crime is evidence of systematic racism." However, though liberal "Politifact" tried to provide support for it (from liberal sources), even they could not validate it, finding that that the liberal biased [[ACLU]] study the Buttigieg campaign stated he was referring to "does not support what Buttigieg specifically said in Iowa."<ref>[https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/jul/10/pete-buttigieg/viral-moment-pete-buttigieg-fumbles-line-racial-di ] In viral moment, Pete Buttigieg fumbles line on racial disparities in criminal justice</ref>
While campaigning at a staged event in Iowa an audience plant urged him to tell the black people of South Bend to stop committing crime and doing drugs,<ref>https://townhall.com/columnists/sheriffdavidclarke(ret)/2019/07/16/mayor-pete-gets-dragged-into-the-deep-end-of-pool-on-race-politics-n2550133</ref> Buttigieg stated: "The fact that a black person is four times as likely as a white person to be incarcerated for the exact same crime is evidence of systematic racism." However, though liberal "Politifact" tried to provide support for it (from liberal sources), even they could not validate it, finding that that the liberal biased [[ACLU]] study the Buttigieg campaign stated he was referring to "does not support what Buttigieg specifically said in Iowa."<ref>[https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/jul/10/pete-buttigieg/viral-moment-pete-buttigieg-fumbles-line-racial-di ] In viral moment, Pete Buttigieg fumbles line on racial disparities in criminal justice</ref>
Steve Patton, the Chicago city attorney who spearheaded efforts to block the release of video footage showing the 2014 police shooting death of black teenager Laquan McDonald, donated the maximum amount of $5,600 to the Buttigieg campaign and headlined fundraising events.<ref>https://freebeacon.com/blog/pete-buttigieg-rahm-emanuel-police/</ref>
Steve Patton, the [[Chicago]] city attorney who spearheaded efforts to block the release of video footage showing the 2014 police shooting death of black teenager Laquan McDonald, donated the maximum amount of $5,600 to the Buttigieg campaign and headlined fundraising events.<ref>https://freebeacon.com/blog/pete-buttigieg-rahm-emanuel-police/</ref>
==2020 Presidential campaign==
==2020 Presidential campaign==