Councilwoman Michelle Chambers holds town hall
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Councilwoman michelle chambers got feedback from fort wayne residents tonight during a townhall called "where do we go from here?"
Their main concern-- the police departments approach to the protests.
Fox 55'sjentill neal has more.trt:1:44outcue: standard> 07-24> 36-1:03> 1:13-1:31 molly link is one of many on the zoom call looking for answers on why the police handled the protests- arresting her eighteen year old daughter.>00:00:05-00:00:18 "my daughter is one of the protesters that was wrongfully arrested with accessive force last weekend for excercising her right to protest and not doing anything innapproriate or violent so we're currently dealing with those criminal charges, so i'm hoping someone from the community helps to get those dropped."
Councilwoman michelle chambers plans to meet with chief steve reed this wednesday to see if charges can be reduced or dropped.people on the call say protestors are facing charges of failure to leave the area, and disorderly conduct.>"the community doesn't feel validated in, i can't even say the apology, they don't feel they've been heard from our mayor from our police chief.
We need to take a look at is there a way to legally lesson the charges or drop the charges.
We need to find a way to combine these mental health situations which is really a county situation, but how do we do that?"they say protesters were held without bond all weekend.link says her daughter received a $1,000 bond last monday.>"there were only a few people that actually got charged with rioting, but it appears that anyone that was caught on video breaking windows or actually vandalizing or anything like that didn't get arrested.
It was people running from gas grabbed from behind."councilwoman chambers says she and councilwoman sharon tucker are also looking into buying body cameras for police to protect both officers and defendants..in fort wayne, jentill neal fox 55 news.
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