Vance Addresses Cincinnati Brawl: ‘Throw Their A*ses In Jail’
Vice President JD Vance has addressed the shocking downtown altercation that gained widespread attention on social media over the weekend.
On Monday, Vance was in northeast Ohio to endorse President Donald Trump’s significant tax cuts and budget proposal, often referred to as the “one big, beautiful bill.”
During a press conference, he was asked about a large group of black individuals who violently assaulted three white individuals. The footage of this violent event circulated widely on social media, leading to condemnation from figures such as Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno and Elon Musk.
“There was a group of people who attacked a couple folks on the street in Cincinnati. Senator Bernie Moreno and others have expressed their concerns about it,” a reporter inquired.
“OK, OK, yes, yes. From what I observed, and I have not seen the complete context, but what I witnessed was a mob of lawless individuals assaulting an innocent person, and it is appalling. I hope that every single person involved in this violence is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. And they will be, provided that law enforcement in Ohio takes their responsibilities seriously,” Vance stated.
“I know Dave Yost is very concerned about these matters. However, you are correct; Bernie did share a clip of this incident with me, and we had a brief discussion about it. I am not aware of the complete context. I do not know how the altercation began. However, one particularly disturbing moment I witnessed was when a grown man punched a middle-aged woman unexpectedly. In my view, when a grown man resorts to sucker-punching a middle-aged woman, that individual deserves to face significant jail time,” Vance asserted.
“To be frank, he is fortunate that there were not more capable individuals present, as they would have taken care of the situation themselves. However, if they are unwilling to intervene, it falls upon the Cincinnati police and law enforcement to prosecute offenders. We have witnessed an excessive amount of lawlessness in the streets of our great American cities. How many of you have hesitated to visit downtown Akron, downtown Canton, or downtown Columbus for a meal due to concerns that local authorities in these major cities have permitted lawlessness to flourish?” he remarked.
Vance further stated, “We must restore safety to our great American cities for the sake of families and children. If you wish to take your wife or children out for a meal, you should not have to fear street violence. The only way to eradicate this street violence is to apprehend the thugs responsible and incarcerate them.”
Five individuals have been charged in relation to a brutal assault on a street in Cincinnati, following the viral spread of video footage depicting the incident.
The names of the suspects have not been released, and Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge refrained from disclosing the specific charges, cautioning that additional arrests are anticipated.
“We have charged five individuals and expect more to follow,” Theetge informed reporters on Monday, two days after the incident that occurred at 3 a.m. on Saturday, which she described as a “fight.”
According to online videos, the “fight” featured a crowd stomping on the head of a man who was curled up on a downtown street, while a woman was struck and rendered unconscious, with blood flowing from her mouth after she attempted to intervene.
Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy mentioned that he had spoken with the woman who was knocked out, asserting that she was a mother named Holly who informed him that “not a single local or state official had reached out” to her, apart from “one police detective.”
“She is a single working mother who attended a friend’s birthday celebration,” stated the former GOP presidential candidate. “It is unacceptable that there were no law enforcement officers in that part of Cincinnati on a Friday evening, nor was there an ambulance available to transport her to the hospital.”
Ken Kober, president of the Cincinnati Fraternal Order of Police, informed WLWT that the victims sustained “quite significant injuries” and would be “in recovery for some time.”