text: BREAKING: Buttigieg Changes Campaign Schedule To Return To South Bend For Friday Night March | WVPE
  L-R: South Bend Councilman Oliver Davis, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Chasten Buttigieg at a gun violence memorial held Wednesday, June 19 in South Bend in the aftermath of the police shooting of Eric Logan.
  BREAKING: WVPE has learned from Mark Bode, the South Bend spokesman for Mayor Pete Buttigieg, that Buttigieg will be back in the city for tonight's planned march in response to the police shooting of Eric Logan.
  Buttigieg returned to campaigning this morning with an appearance in Miami. However, he is planning on participating in the march this evening that will start at 6:30pm at the South Bend Police Department. Saturday Buttigieg's campaign schedule calls for him to head to South Carolina.
  WVPE has confirmed through Eric Logan's mother that the funeral will be Saturday at noon at Power and Praise Church in Mishawaka.
  Apparent vandalism at the site of the makeshift memorial to honor Eric Logan, the South Bend man killed by a police officer Sunday
  Friday mid-afternoon, apparent vandalism was found at the site of the makeshift memorial for Eric Logan that has sprung up near where he was killed. Someone spray painted the words "Good Shoot" at the location.
  Police were called and it is expected that a crew from the city's Parks, Venues and Arts department will come out to powerwash the paint off.
  In a campaign email issued last night, Buttigieg spoke to what the South Bend community has endured in the last week.
  Right now, my hometown of South Bend is hurting. This past weekend, a member of our South Bend community – a Black man named Eric Logan – lost his life at the hands of another member of our community – a white police officer.
  While the case is still being investigated, we do know this: a South Bend family is enduring the crushing and inconsolable anguish that far too many Black and Latino families across the country have shared. Our city, and our nation, demands answers about the dynamic between our police officers and the communities they are sworn to protect.
  I am not from a community of color, and I pray that I'll never get the terrible phone call that Eric Logan's family received last Sunday. But Eric's death – no matter what details emerge about the circumstances and the actions of the officer involved – shines a bright light on a subject that impacts my life, your life, and the lives of Americans from all walks of life. All police work and all of American life takes place in the shadow of racism, which hurts everyone and everything it touches. Historic racism, present-day racism, and generational racism – they all secrete a kind of poison into the bloodstream of this country. And we must join together to make things right, no matter how demanding that process may be.
  When someone sees police car lights in his neighborhood and is filled with fear instead of reassurance, that should move all of us to demand a change in how policing is done. When someone gets followed around a store by a security guard because she committed the sin of shopping while Black, that should spark outrage in all of us, whether we know her or not. When a parent is forced to discuss with their child how they – differently than their white peers – must be cautious in how they move and speak when confronted by a police officer, that should break all of our hearts.
  There is a direct relationship between what happened in our nation's past and what's happening now. We cannot take racist policies and replace them with neutral policies and expect things to even out; the consequences of racial hurt for the economic and physical security of all Americans, and especially Black Americans, shape our times.
  We must do more. Here at home, building on past work that has included civilian oversight, police data transparency, bias and civil rights trainings, we are now taking further steps to end the divide of distrust between police and those they serve – with transparency and accountability as our central guides.
  In new ways, we will elicit community input on the policies that decide how the police department does its work – policies on body cameras, the use of force, and the prevention of bias – and we will empower community members to help shape how these policies are put into practice.
  No diverse community – least of all our country as a whole – can move forward without directly confronting how racism undermines everything we work to achieve. In our past and our present, we have innumerable moments in which racial injustice came at the hands of those trusted with being instruments of justice, and this fact burdens all of us.
  I believe that if there is any place that can overcome the things that are pulling people apart, it's here in America, especially my hometown.
  I thank you for your moral support in these efforts as we seek to build a safer and more just city and country.