The South Bend Police Department is responding to questions regarding why no arrests were made after the large brawl that broke out during the Washington vs. Riley basketball game at Washington High School on Thursday, Feb. 2.
The department’s response is below:
Simply put: our top priority was to ensure the safety of each person in the building and to direct all attendees to a safe exit point. While all 2nd Detail Officers did ultimately respond, our officers were outnumbered by the large crowd inside the gymnasium.
We commend the work of our 2nd Detail Officers, as well as our School Resource Officers, to ensure there were no serious injuries.
Two of our officers did suffer minor injuries while responding, but did not require further medical treatment.
We want to thank Mishawaka Police, IU South Bend Police, Pokagon Tribal Police and the St. Joseph County Police Department for assisting our officers with our calls as we responded to the school.
Below, we will share the statement from South Bend Schools Superintendent Dr. Todd Cummings regarding last night’s incident.
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๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ท๐ช๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ต ๐๐ข๐ด๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ช๐จ๐ฉ ๐๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ฉ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฅ๐ข๐บ ๐ฏ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฐ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ถ๐ญ๐ต ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ด. ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด, ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฏ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ค๐๐ถ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐๐ถ๐ฑ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ข ๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ-๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ต๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ธ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฉ๐ช๐ฃ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ด๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐ฉ๐ช๐ฑ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ง๐ข๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐บ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ข๐ง๐ฆ๐ต๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ข๐ต ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ด ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฅ.
๐๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฆ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ค๐ฆ ๐๐ง๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด, ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐ค ๐ฅ๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ, ๐ญ๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐ฏ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ตโ๐ด ๐ท๐ช๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข ๐ด๐ค๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ข๐ณ๐ช๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ข๐ฃ๐ด๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ด๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต.
๐๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ฅ๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ท๐ช๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ: ๐๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ. ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต-๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ค๐ฐ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ค๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ. ๐๐ถ๐ณ ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ด๐ถ๐ค๐ค๐ฆ๐ด๐ด. ๐๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐ฏ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ตโ๐ด ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ดโ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ดโ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ.
๐๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ง๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ท๐ฐ๐ญ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐น๐ต ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ด.
๐๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ข๐ณ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐ค ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ข๐ง๐ฆ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ช๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ค๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด. ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ฅ๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ด ๐ฆ๐น๐ฉ๐ช๐ฃ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ณ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด.
๐๐ฏ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆโ๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ข๐ด๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฑ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐บ.
๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐ค ๐ฅ๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ด, ๐๐๐๐ด, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ธ๐ช๐ง๐ต๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ข๐ง๐ฆ๐ต๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด. ๐๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ง๐ถ๐ญ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐๐ข๐ถ๐ญ ๐๐ฆ๐ช๐ฅ๐ช๐จ, ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ช๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐ข๐ด ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ช๐ด๐ด๐ถ๐ฆ.
๐๐ด ๐ข๐ญ๐ธ๐ข๐บ๐ด, ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ญ๐บ ๐ท๐ช๐ข ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐ถ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ๐๐ช๐ฑ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ช๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ข๐ฏ๐ข ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐๐ต๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ข๐ต 574-288-๐๐๐๐.
– Dr. Todd Cummings, Superintendent
2 comments
So their explanation was no explanation!
So zero accountability. And people wonder why our society continues to circle the drain. Maybe, just maybe, if people were held accountable for their actions they might think twice the next. Great role models ๐