Pete Buttigieg regrets saying ‘All Lives Matter’

South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg said Thursday he regretted using the phrase “all lives matter” in 2015, explaining that he did not know it was used to “devalue” the Black Lives Matter movement.

“At that time, I was talking about a lot of issues around racial reconciliation in our community. What I did not understand at that time, was that phrase, just early into mid-2015, was coming to be viewed as a sort of counter slogan to Black Lives Matter,” the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate said, according to CNN. “And so, this statement, that seems very anodyne and something that nobody could be against, actually wound up being used to devalue what the Black Lives Matter movement was telling us.”