Pete Buttigieg Reinforces Bodycam Order After Officer-Involved Shooting In South Bend

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Sherika Logan lights candles for her uncle during a vigil for Eric Logan on Washington Street in South Bend, Ind.

South Bend, Indiana Mayor and 2020 Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg requested the city’s police chief to issue an order reaffirming the city’s police department’s policy on body cameras. According to a release pertaining to the general order, the policy requires authorities to “activate their body cameras during all work-related interactions with civilians.”

The decision comes days after 53-year-old Eric Logan, an African American man, was shot and killed by a white police officer on Saturday. The officer, South Bend Police Sgt. Ryan O’Neill, alleged Logan approached him with a knife, CBS South Bend affiliate WSBT reports.
Officials later found O’Neill did not activate his body camera during the encounter. Authorities claim the camera wasn’t on because the squad car O’Neill arrived in did not have its emergency lights on; both are part of an inter-connected system that includes the vehicle’s dashboard camera.

 


Post time: Jul-11-2019
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