5 Charged in Cincinnati Attack on White Couple

They're beating this couple for no other reason than they are White. They could have been killed.

The Cincinnati police department has launched an investigation after a group of thugs were filmed beating a man and a woman unconscious. pic.twitter.com/s25qrS2dED

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Theetge, however, tried to downplay the brawl, calling the weekend “outside of this one incident, an amazing success for this city” while explaining that a baseball game and music festival happening in Cincinnati that night both went off without a hitch.

“We had one incident – one incident – late Friday night into Saturday morning that is getting all the attention and undoing the good stuff that happened this weekend,” she said.

But Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said he spoke to the woman who was knocked out, claiming she was a mother named Holly who told him “not a single local or state official had yet reached out” to her besides “one police detective.”

“She’s a single working mom who went to a friend’s birthday party,” the former GOP presidential hopeful said. “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.”

Cincinnati Fraternal Order of Police President Ken Kober told WLWT the victims suffered “pretty serious injuries” and would be “recovering from this for a while.”

Theetge, however, disputed critics’ characterization of the downtown police presence, saying officers were on-scene within six minutes of receiving a call about the brawl and that it had ended and dispersed by the time they arrived.

But she also appeared to blame residents of her city who saw the fight for any delay in response – saying upwards of 100 people were either involved or watching, but that only a single person called 911.

The chief also admonished the press, accusing reporters of playing video of the incident that only showed “one version of what occurred” – though she did not elaborate on what she meant by that.

“I haven’t seen the full context, but what I saw is a mob of lawless thugs beating up on an innocent person,” the Vice President and former Ohio senator said.

“Where I come from at least, when you have a grown man who sucker punches a middle-aged woman, that person ought to go to jail for a very long time,” Vance added.