South Bend Police Department

“I personally think it’s very important that people on this board be able to see the police video: bodycam, car cam, et cetera,” said community police review board member Cheryl Ashe.

Girl yells, 'You can't touch me, fool!' while officer Sam Chaput replies, 'Yes, I sure can.'

“I don’t have enough information to make a determination on any legal strategy or legal moves," said civil rights attorney Andrew M. Stroth. "I just want to know what the heck happened.”

“There’s a million ways that could’ve been handled,” Fred Teague told the South Bend Community Police Review Board on Thursday. “That should’ve been deescalated.”

South Bend Common Council member Oliver Davis says the juvenile's family and activists like Black Lives Matter South Bend are even angrier after hearing Police Chief Scott Ruszkowski's defensive tone and words at a press conference Wednesday.

South Bend Police Chief Scott Ruszkowski says Internal Affairs must still conclude its investigation, but he and the department's Use of Force Committee finds nothing wrong with the level of force that Patrolman Samuel Chaput used while detaining a 14-year-old female juvenile Friday outside the downtown McDonald's.

In four unrelated shootings across South Bend Friday night through Sunday, two adults were killed, two adults suffered injuries that weren't life-threatening, and two children were hurt, one with critical injuries.

South Bend Police Chief Scott Ruszkowski has said he'll release the officer's body camera video but his spokeswoman, Ashley O'Chap, said they weren't ready to release it yet on Monday.

Critics of the bill worry that the people who interact most with police can't afford the new fees to monitor police officer behavior. But city legal staff hope the fees will incentivize people to more carefully craft public records requests because redacting confidential information takes so much time.

The South Bend Common Council expects to vote Monday night on a bill creating new fees, up to $150, for police dash and body cam videos that people request under the Indiana Access to Public Records Act.