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South Bend Police Department video associated with an incident McDonald's near downtown
Indiana state bodycam | 2025-08-21
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Information in the 911 call Police released a 3-minute 911 call that was placed at 12:58 p.m. — the caller was a McDonald's employee — in which the employee described the situation as a juvenile inside the restaurant becoming loud and aggressive. The juvenile demanded the restaurant give them money ...
Information in the 911 call Police released a 3-minute 911 call that was placed at 12:58 p.m. — the caller was a McDonald's employee — in which the employee described the situation as a juvenile inside the restaurant becoming loud and aggressive. The juvenile demanded the restaurant give them money for a meal they’ve already had, the caller said. The juvenile was threatening employees and using profanities, the caller said. The caller described the juvenile as a boy around 11 or 12 years old, wearing a grayish-white sweater with a green backpack. The caller said the juvenile was still in the restaurant at the front counter, South Bend Police Director of Communications Ashley O’Chap said. Chief of Police Scott Ruszkowski later said this girl did not attend South Bend schools, which started the school year Aug. 20, after the incident. A McDonald's employee reported the girl — who they believed was a boy — had been there for hours. Chaput responded to the McDonald's restaurant at 416 N. Michigan St. at 1:08 p.m., as shown by the footage released from his body camera. The video included a timestamp to show the video was not edited, O'Chap said. She said the time taken to release the information included redacting the video by blurring the faces of the people involved and redacting phone numbers and addresses. Chaput was given three pieces of information regarding the call he was on: disorderly conduct, intimidation and trespass. Officers can only use force that is objectively reasonable, while protecting the safety of officers and others, under the department's use of force policy, which is in accordance with uniform statewide policy determined by the Indiana Law Enforcement Training Board. The body camera footage shows the girl attempting to hit Chaput twice, Ruszkowski said. Chaput can be heard telling the girl not to hit him, the footage showed. Ruszkowski said the use of force was the minimum force needed to reach compliance. He said use of force committee members who are involved in the investigation said the amount of force used was needed to reach compliance from the girl. When asked what the girl’s resistance, according to the department’s use of force policy, could be described as, Ruszkowski said her actions fall under active resistance, defined by the policy as "physical action(s) that prevent(s) an officer from being able to lawfully exercise their duties (e.g., subject walking away after being told to stop, subject fleeing from arrest, or subject tensing/pulling away/breaking officer's grip involving force demonstrated by the individual's use of power, strength, or violence directed at or against the officer)."
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