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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 9h

Oh what's that, the son of the former sheriff is a piece of shit nepo fuckboy bastard????? NO WAY!!!!

‘Grossly inappropriate’: Allen County Sheriff seeks firing of Cpl. Fries for alleged comments making light of police shootings

Sheriff Hershberger filed a petition seeking the termination of Cpl. Ben Fries, the son of former sheriff and current County Councilman Ken Fries, for immoral conduct.

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social

“I am sure by now, many of you are aware of a video with Fort Wayne Police and an individual that is circulating around the community on social media, and now picked up by the news outlets depicting some behavior and language that causes me to feel uncomfortable with the language." THE LANGUAGE

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Mayor Sharon Tucker addresses viral FWPD arrest video

Mayor Sharon Tucker addressed the city of Fort Wayne in the wake of a viral video showing Fort Wayne Police Department officers beating a man whom they then arrested.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 9h

You have to be the worst bastard cop imaginable for your fellow bastard cops to get so fucking scared of you that they go to IAD about it fuckkk real I learned it by watching you, Dad hours

Cpl. Fries first joined the department full-time in July of 2011. He was later selected to serve on the SWAT team in September 2021, and was then promoted to Corporal in the Patrol Division two months later.

In the petition, Hersherberger listed four charges to be sent to the merit board against Cpl. Fries.

Count 1
While at an on-duty work lunch at Pizza Hut on Aug. 13, 2026, with several other officers and one employee present, Cpl. Fries allegedly said, “I haven’t shot anyone with my new Glock, yet.”

In December of 2024, the department said Cpl. Fries shot and killed an armed man while responding to a mental health crisis in Huntertown. The Allen County Prosecutor’s Office later found that he was justified in the shooting.

According to the petition, one corporal said the comment made him so uncomfortable that he got up and left the table. Another officer said the statement concerned him so much that he submitted a complaint to internal affairs.

During the investigation into the comment, the petition says Cpl. Fries admitted to saying it.

He said it was just “shop talk” and was just a joke, the document says. He then agreed that the conversation was not appropriate to have in public or in general.

Count 2
The petition says that following a SWAT training operation in May 2026, Cpl. Fries was talking with SWAT members about moving patrol shifts.

Cpl. Fries allegedly told several other team members, “Come to second shift if you want to get into a shooting and you’ll get some time off.”

Documents say one SWAT member responded, “Who the f*** wants to shoot somebody?” Cpl. Fries then said, “Who doesn’t. Like the new guys,” and pointed to other SWAT members, the petition says.

The SWAT member who responded to Fries then reported the comment, saying it upset him especially because it was said in front of new officers and that an officer-involved shooting was not something to joke about.

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social

The press i got before the press became FWPD ARREST PROTESTERS PLANNING VIOLENCE was so good 😭 I don't want to run for office again 😭 but if it did it would be on the explicit platform of physically attacking and dethroning the existing government 😭 filtermag.org/running-for-...

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Running for Office as a Prison Abolitionist in Deep-Red Indiana

An abolitionist's council candidacy sets up a fascinating contest with a former sheriff in a place where officials have boasted of high incarceration rates.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 9h

"In the spring of 2025, the petition says Cpl. Fries was at a dinner during a SWAT Training Conference. He allegedly told another corporal, who has recently been involved in an officer-involved shooting, “At least I killed my guy.”" Cops gonna cop especially when their dad was also a cop

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Allen County Sheriff’s Department identifies officer who shot, killed armed man at Huntertown home

The Allen County Sheriff’s Department has identified the officer who they say shot and killed an armed man while responding to a mental health crisis earlier this month.

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