Fort Wayne Police Chief Addresses City Council

Fort Wayne Police Chief Addresses City Council

I'm hunter petroviak.

Thanks for joining us.

Fort wayne police chief steve reed tonight remains steadfast that his officers responded appropriately to protesters two weekends ago.

Reed tonight stood before city council members who've received dozens of complaints about officers' use of tear gas.

Fox 55's jentill neal is live now outside citizens square to tell us more about their conversation.

Jentill?

Hunter, tonight i asked chief reed if he had something to say to the protesters who were not agitators and his response ... "it's unfortunate."

But he did tell councilmen what he would've done differently.

Tonight police chief steve reed addressed all questions from city councilmembers after they told him they've received hundreds of emails from residents about what happened.

Bitewhen asked what he would 3 do differently... he says he'd work with protest organizers so that they could've assisted them on the bridge.

Bitesomething he says is in the works since it has come up is body cameras.

He's been looking into this for months.

Bite collectively they agreed there's still some work to do.

Bite 3 there were 40 public comment letters read at tonight's meeting and majority were about the police.reed says there will be a full debriefing once the department has had a chance to review everything from the weekend protests.

Councilwoman tucker is calling for a full review of what happened and looking into body cameras.they're looking at compromising a citizen review committee.

Reporting live ... jentill neal ... fox 55 news.