South Bend, Indiana’s Fraternal Order of Police union is accusing Mayor Pete Buttigieg of politicizing a recent officer involved shooting for the sake of his 2020 presidential campaign.

Buttigieg returned to South Bend from the campaign trail earlier this month after white officer Sgt. Ryan O’Neill shot and killed Eric Logan, a 54-year-old black man, after O’Neill alleged Logan threatened him with a knife. O’Neill’s body camera was not turned on during the altercation.

Buttigieg has since ordered all of the city’s police to turn on their body cameras at all times and reported the incident to the Justice Department’s civil rights division, though it hasn’t quelled intense criticism from South Bend’s black community over his seeming inability to prevent police violence.

On Monday, Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #36 posted a press release to social media accusing Buttigieg of “driving a wedge between law enforcement officers and the community,” after St. Joseph County Prosecutor Kenneth Cotter filed a petition asking for the appointment of a special prosecutor in the case at the request of the mayor.

“For Mayor and Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg to make disparaging remarks such as ‘All Police work and all American life takes place in the shadow of racism’ is divisive. Mayor Buttigieg’s focus on this incident is solely for his political gain and not the health of the city he serves,” the union wrote.

“Mayor Buttigeg’s comments have already and will continue to have a detrimental effect on law enforcement officers and law enforcement officers nationwide. Mayor Buttigieg’s comments and actions are driving a wedge between law enforcement officers and the community they took an oath to serve.”

The letter points out that the recent officer involved shooting is one of several recent shootings in the city, but seems to be the only one Buttigieg is interested in addressing.

“Mayor Buttigieg has in no way unified the community. Mayor Buttigieg continues to only focus on one incident and one family. Buttigieg has yet to comment on the largest mass shooting in the recent history of South Bend or on one juvenile killing another earlier in the week,” the FOP letter read.

“Buttigieg’s focus on one family has left several others ostracized,” it continued. “He has not spoken to the families involved with the Kelly’s Pub Shooting, the South Bend Police Family or the family of Sgt. O’Neill, all of whom are suffering greatly.”

The letter follows a tense town hall on Sunday, when Buttigieg faced angry South Bend residents who criticized his leadership and claimed he hasn’t done enough to reform the police department during his two terms as mayor. During his first term, Buttigieg fired the city’s first black police chief, the Associated Press reports.

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Cotter’s petition for a special prosecutor cites accusations that O’Neill made “inappropriate racial remarks” while on patrol over a decade ago. The prosecutor’s chief investigator, Dave Newton, also reported O’Neill in 2008 after two officers “voiced a concern of inappropriate racial remarks made by Ryan O’Neill,” the news service quoted from the petition.

The violence and racial issues in South Bend underscore a serious problem that’s plagued “Mayor Pete’s” campaign, and the recent officer-involved shooting is certainly making matters worse.

Videos of angry residents protesting and yelling at Buttigieg in recent days will undoubtedly erode what little support he has from black voters, which wasn’t a whole lot to begin with.

“Pete has a black problem,” Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, told the Daily Beast. “I don’t know of one black person out of Indiana that supports him.”