use of force

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.

After months of review, the South Bend Board of Public Safety approved changes to the city’s Police Use of Force Policy Wednesday. The decision comes two…

After months of deliberation and community feedback, the city of South Bend has a new Police Use of Force Policy. The Board of Public Safety approved the…

Some South Bend faith leaders are calling for the city to strengthen its Police Use of Force policy, which will come before the Board of Public Safety…

Governor Gretchen Whitmer has rolled out proposals to address the excessive use of force by law enforcement. The plan calls for incentives for police…