Pete Buttigieg Silent as His Police Chief Deflects Blame for South Bend Officers Imitating KKK

After a controversial arrest where South Bend police officers were caught on tape reenacting a KKK scene from “Django Unchained,” South Bend police chief Scott Ruszkowski, a close ally of presidential candidate and Mayor Pete Buttigieg, made questionable claims to a local activist insinuating the officers on tape mimicking Klansmen were not from the South Bend Police Department.

As Status Coup first reported, during an arrest of 21-year-old black male Marko Mosgrove on December 18th, Mosgrove livestreamed his arrest (the original livestream was taken down on Facebook but an activist clipped it).

After realizing they were being taped, South Bend police officers turned around his phone, turning the video black with the audio still running. At the tail end of the arrest, officers begin imitating Klansmen from the Quentin Tarantino film “Django.”

“I can’t see fu**king sh*t out of this thing!,” an officer says while laughing, mimicking the scene where KKK members argue with one another over their Klan hoods not fitting their faces.

“I think we all agree that these were a nice idea,” the officer says, further imitating a Klansmen during the “Django” scene trying to diffuse the argument.