FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — A non profit serving food in downtown Fort Wayne is calling out the city’s police department for using their weekly meals to serve arrest warrants.
For the past 15 years, hungry people could expect a hot meal in Freimann Square every Sunday at 2 p.m., thanks to Food Not Bombs Fort Wayne. But on Tuesday, the agency posted on its Facebook, explaining how the Fort Wayne Police Department had weaponized their service for the second time. It said police are waiting until a person with active warrants comes to get food. Then the officers would make an arrest.
An organizer with a nonprofit who did not want to share their name described the most recent arrest, which happened Sunday, to WANE 15:…