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(NewsNation) — After viral videos of a beating successful downtown Cincinnati, immoderate residents accidental it’s a grounds of a bigger transgression occupation and the nonaccomplishment of metropolis leaders to respond to their concerns.
Sarah Heringer’s husband, Patrick, a 46-year-old Army veteran, was fatally stabbed successful the cervix wrong their location during a burglary successful June.
The suspect, Mordecai Black, has an extended transgression history, including battle charges, and spent 19 of his 20 big years successful prison.
At the time, helium was retired of situation connected parole and had chopped disconnected his ankle monitor.
Heringer told NewsNation she thinks city leaders person their heads successful the sand.
“The metropolis enactment doesn’t privation to beryllium held accountable oregon beryllium transparent astir the transgression successful Cincinnati and the mode that it’s being handled,” she said. “They would alternatively posture and usage property conferences and settee for optics alternatively than admit that they person a occupation and bash what it takes to lick it.”
Heringer besides shared her communicative Monday astatine a municipality hallway held by Vivek Ramaswamy, who is moving for politician of Ohio.
At a property league connected July 22, 2025, Mayor Aftab Pureval said that “violent transgression remains down,” a connection supported by Police Chief Teresa Theetge.
Since a convulsive beating captured connected camera went viral, metropolis leaders defended their effect against critics who accidental they don’t person power implicit the city.
At a quality conference, Theetge said bystanders took videos, but lone 1 idiosyncratic called 911, and said the attraction fixed to the convulsive incidental was “undoing each the bully worldly that happened [that] weekend.”
Monday, Pureval posted a video connected societal media that showed him walking alongside a constabulary lieutenant connected a walking patrol.
Police information shows that convulsive transgression is down for Cincinnati overall.
But successful the downtown area, wherever the beating occurred, information shows that year-to-date, 652 crimes person been reported, a operation of convulsive transgression and spot crime. Last year, determination were 434. That’s much than a 50% summation successful crime, with conscionable nether 5 months near successful the year. It’s besides 50% higher than the three-year mean for crime.
Heringer said leaders are not addressing the existent issues residents privation to spot tackled.
“They’re placing blasted connected citizens for a deficiency of either engagement oregon calling 911, oregon they’re putting the onus connected idiosyncratic else, alternatively of admitting that what happened isn’t conscionable a concern oregon thing that’s happened overnight, it’s really the fruits of their labor, of a deficiency of constabulary force, a deficiency of accountability wrong nationalist safety,” she said.
The caller accusation coming retired aft the beating is a grounds of a greater issue, she told NewsNation.
“The effect from enactment is again, trying to debar and bash harm power alternatively of proactively solving the issues that they created themselves,” she said.
Heringer says enactment needs to bash better, having damaged the spot of residents who enactment them into power.
NewsNation has requested interviews with the mayor, the constabulary main and City Council members. None has responded to the requests.
Former constabulary serviceman Daniel Hills served successful Cincinnati for 3 decades and was caput of the constabulary union. He told NewsNation helium agrees with Heringer and says the metropolis needs much police, but the occupation is besides with section judges.
“Judges request to spell backmost to enactment for the citizens. I don’t attraction if you’re Black oregon white, Black radical don’t similar transgression either,” helium said. “Most of our Black citizens are awesome radical who don’t similar this transgression immoderate much than we do. But for immoderate reason, the Democratic broadside of the governmental spectrum seems to beryllium attracted to leaders who are brushed connected crime.”
Current caput of the Fraternal Order of Police successful Cincinnati, Ken Kober, echoed the aforesaid sentiment.
