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(NewsNation) — Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge announced that five radical look charges stemming from a convulsive brawl successful the city's downtown, vowing that much is coming.
Several angles of the combat went viral, with video showing a radical surrounding and beating a man, and different space showing a pistillate who appears to beryllium knocked unconscious hitting her caput connected the concrete.
People person blamed constabulary for not being connected site, but Theetge responded by saying lone 1 idiosyncratic called 911.
Officers were connected the country successful six minutes, but by past the brawl was over.
A number of suspects person been identified, with region authoritative Connie Pillich saying she volition prosecute them to the fullest grade of the law.
But nary of the 5 radical presently charged person been arrested yet, due to the fact that constabulary can't find them. Authorities are asking the suspects to crook themselves in.
Theetge defended the constabulary response, saying that constabulary got a telephone astatine 3:06 a.m. and were connected country wrong six minutes. She besides lashed retired astatine the media successful a property briefing.
"Another taxable I privation to screen existent speedy is societal media and journalism and the relation it plays successful the incident," she said. "And yes guys, that's you. That is you. The societal media station that we've seen does not picture the full incident. That is 1 mentation of what occurred."
Many person slammed her and the city's response. Vivek Ramaswamy is moving for politician of Ohio, and helium says it's unconscionable that determination were nary constabulary contiguous successful that country of Cincinnati connected a Friday night.
He besides questioned wherefore determination wasn't an ambulance to instrumentality the pistillate who was knocked unconscious to the hospital.
Corey Bowman, half-brother to Vice President JD Vance, is moving for politician and blames the combat connected mismanagement.
"We person to look astatine the basal contented of this and that's mismanagement. We person this saying, that's trickle-down incompetence," Bowman said. "The incompetence is coming from the apical down and we person to hole it."
One of the victims of the brawl, the pistillate who was knocked unconscious, is simply a azygous parent who was retired celebrating a friend's day enactment that night. Authorities accidental she is doing okay.
