Allen County Prosecutor Karen Richards responds to protesters outside Fort Wayne home

Allen County Prosecutor Karen Richards responds to protesters outside Fort Wayne home

Allen County Prosecutor Karen Richards met with protesters in her driveway Sunday while they demanded she drop charges against hundreds of protesters.

Thank you for joining us tonight.

Dozens of people stood outside the fort wayne home of allen county prosecutor karen richards today ... all demanding she drop charges against those arrested in last month's downtown protests.

Fox 55's mallory beard was there when they were greeted by richards herself.

She tells us what happened next.

Trt: 2:42 : "drop the charges karen" a tranquil sunday afternoon in the historic forest park neighborhood of fort wayne interrupted by dozens of protesters outside the home of allen county prosecutor karen richards.

"don't be a karen."

All demanding richards drop misdemeanor charges against more than a hundred protesters.

Ben schoch//protester "that's why people are so upset and that's only one incident.

I mean a hundred plus people were arrested so there's a lot of voices to be heard..."

Flanked by police richards came out to her driveway and told the crowd her team still needs 3 to 4 more weeks to process all the video.

Sot when you're talking about a series of days with thousands of hours of video it doesn't happen overnight.

I am assuming there are going to be people who are going to get their charges dismissed.

I assume there are people who are doing things who are going to get arrested.

Protesters demanded to know why some of them are still being arrested including the organizer of today's event for being in the street a month ago.

Ben "where he was charged with blocking traffic which is a ticket.

I mean, and realistically, you can just give someone a warning- hey don't block traffic."

Clip 3 2:10-2:29 if you peacefully stand over there and behave yourself and exercise your first amendment right you have a perfect right.

Protester: i tried but they teargassed me multiple times.

But if you walk into the street and you keep people from walking in street you're probably going to get arrested."

Richards argued not everyone was peaceful ..

Pointing to a handful of broken windows and graffiti during the first night of protests.sot i think what you're assuming is everyone who got arrested did nothing wrong and after reviewing i can already tell you that's not necessarily true and there are some things that happened that night that should make all of you uncomfortable.

While some neighbors watched from afar and others simply went on with their day a few took issue with protesters bringing the fight to their street.

3:15 -3:30 you know you want to do this go to the public square.

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Don't go out to the neighborhoods.

No one wants this in your neighborhood so don't bring this to anyone else's neighborhood.

But protesters had one more pressing question for richards asking would any police officers be charged for violence against them.

Richards says she has no cases against officers and encouraged people to report any cases to internal affairs or the community review board.

Many of the protesters left unsatisfied with her answers.

Protester "she never answered anything very clearly.

One example of that is when she was asked about the three year old child who was attacked by the police and gassed, her immediate response was, 'what were the circumstances?'

There are no circumstances where a three year old child deserves to be gassed.

None whatsoever."

In fw, mallory beard,