Last Friday night in Cincinnati, Ohio, after leaving a jazz concert, three people, including a woman, were assaulted by a large group of thugs on the street. There was no official comment about the attack until Monday, leaving three days for viral videos of the assault to circulate.
In fact, Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge said that of the estimated 100 people watching, recording, and cheering on the assault, only one person called 911. She lamented: “That is unacceptable to not call the police. People saw this. They were fighting in front of traffic. Why didn’t people call us?”
Actually, the videos would not have gotten so much traction except for the fact that the victims were white and the assailants were black. The politically inconvenient truth about race and violence is that a grossly disproportionate percentage of violence in Demo urban centers is black-on-black and black-on-Hispanic. Nothing newsworthy about that.
Had the race of the assailants and victims been reversed, the whole universe of Demos’ race-bait hustlers and their Leftmedia antagonists would have covered this incident wall-to-wall. But CNN, ABC, CBS, The New York Times, The Washington Post, MSNBC, NPR, and the Associated Press all blacked out the attack.
It is not clear what started the altercation, but after reviewing the assault, DOJ Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon said: “Every American is entitled to the equal protection of our laws. Nobody in our great nation should be the victim of such crime, and where race is a motivation, federal law may apply.”
In response, Cincinnati Demo Mayor Aftab Pureval said the suggestion that race was a factor is “wildly irresponsible,” adding: “There’s no indication at this point that race was a motivation in this violent act. I think these Cincinnatians here locally deserve the truth, and deserve kind of non-politicized information to further any kind of specific agenda. … Let me be clear: Cincinnati is an inclusive city where all can come together to enjoy major events in our urban core.”
Anyone viewing these videos knows that there was clearly a racial component to this attack, and Pureval’s asinine assessment is typical of the kind of diversionary nonsense you would expect from any Demo mayor nationally — this is not just a Cincinnati problem.
Chief Theetge, announcing five arrests, blamed the attack on social media culture: “I think it’s part of the culture that we’re in right now where we want to record everything, and I don’t know what people do with those recordings.”
That’s the kind of diversionary nonsense you would expect from any Demo police chief nationally — this is not just a Cincinnati problem.
Coincidentally, Theetge is being sued for discrimination by Cincinnati police officers for her Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion practices. According to the complaint: “The City and Chief Theetge have actively and systemically undertaken efforts to promote, advance, and make promotion and assignment decisions that are preferable to women and minorities, and to the exclusion of white men, including through hiring, diversity initiatives, outreach programs, promotional processes, and other steps that demonstrate both a systemic practice of discrimination against white males…”
Cincinnati/Hamilton County prosecutor Connie Pillich also jumped on the social media wagon: “When you get a bunch of people [together] sometimes people disagree — people might disagree with you when you’re driving down the highway. So, we’re just seeing that kind of temperature being stoked a little bit, probably through, in my mind, through social media, through gossip transmitted across social media. So, we need to step that down a little bit.”
That’s the kind of diversionary nonsense you would expect from any Demo prosecutor nationally — this is not just a Cincinnati problem.
However, their assessments met with some stiff rebuttals.
JD Vance, who represented Ohio in the Senate before joining President Donald Trump’s ticket, said: “I hope every single one of those people who engaged in violence is prosecuted to the full extent of the law. When you have a grown man sucker-punching a middle-aged woman, that person ought to go to jail for a very long time. And frankly, he is lucky there weren’t some better people around because they would handle it themselves… We’ve had way too much lawlessness on the streets of great American cities.”
Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) called for Mayor Pureval’s resignation: “It’s a heinous attack. The mayor of Cincinnati is a disgrace.”
Rep. Michael Rulli (R-OH) said: “Name one major city in America where you’d feel safe letting your kids walk alone. You can’t, and that should alarm every one of us. For too long, we’ve accepted fear and chaos as normal while left-wing politicians push sanctuary cities, slash police funding, and let violent criminals and the mentally ill roam the streets. This isn’t compassion. It’s failure.”
Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy spoke with the female victim after she had been sucker-punched and knocked out cold on the street. He said: “She’s a single working mom who went to a friend’s birthday party. It’s unconscionable that there were no police present in that area of Cincinnati on a Friday night, or even an ambulance to take her to the hospital. Hard-working Americans shouldn’t have to worry for their safety when they have a good time in our cities.”
He added: “Leftists like to lecture about ‘systemic injustice’ while thugs turn our cities into war zones. I’m done with their excuses.”
The nation needs to be done with their excuses.
