What we know about the Cincinnati brawl suspects

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(NewsNation) — Police person identified and charged five suspects from a brutal brawl with a ample assemblage successful the bosom of Cincinnati, Ohio. Videos appearing to amusement the combat person gone viral, arsenic much arrests are anticipated.

“We person victims and suspects identified,” Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa A. Theetge said Monday. “We person charged 5 people, and we expect determination volition beryllium more."

Theetge did not disclose the charges oregon the names of the suspects publicly, citing the ongoing effort to find them. She besides advised those progressive to crook themselves successful arsenic investigators proceed to place individuals successful the videos of the fight.

"Anyone who enactment their hands connected different idiosyncratic during this incidental successful an effort to origin harm volition look consequences," Theetge said. "I don't attraction which broadside of the incidental oregon the combat they were on."

The incidental occurred astatine 3:06 a.m. Saturday successful Cincinnati’s downtown area, which was crowded with much than 150,000 radical attending a large hoops game, a Reds crippled and a euphony festival. Officers arrived connected country astatine 3:12 a.m. to find the combat had ended, with astir participants gone but victims inactive present.

One video taken during the aboriginal Saturday greeting combat shows a antheral successful a achromatic T-shirt being shoved to the crushed by 2 others. He’s past beaten and stomped connected for astir 1 infinitesimal by aggregate radical successful a crowd.

Other videos look to amusement a pistillate being punched and perchance knocked unconscious for respective seconds. Multiple videos, posted by Signal 99, a self-described “Spicy meme leafage for Cops, Firefighters, Medics and Dispatchers” on Facebook, amusement crowds with their telephone cameras on, documenting the violence.

That Facebook radical places the brawl adjacent Fourth and Elm streets connected July 25, though Cincinnati constabulary person yet to corroborate the nonstop location.

City officials and authorities person not confirmed whether anyone was hospitalized arsenic a effect of the fights.

NewsNatioin's Anna Kutz and Damita Menezes contributed to this report.