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The Cincinnati police union slammed a prison case being introduced towards a sufferer in final month’s viral beatdown over the person’s alleged position within the violence.
A forty five-year-old White man was arrested earlier this week in connection to the assault within the metropolis’s downtown space, the Cincinnati Police Division confirmed to Fox Information Digital.
Authorities haven’t named the suspect, who police mentioned was a sufferer within the assault and subsequently is protected beneath Marsy’s Regulation, which prevents officers from releasing his id.
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The nook of Fourth and Elm Road outdoors of LoVe, an area nightclub, the place the beating occurred, as seen on July 28, 2025, in Cincinnati. (Peter D’Abrosca/Fox Information Digital)
The sufferer’s lawyer, Douglas Brannon, revealed his shopper was allegedly hit within the head 28 occasions and robbed throughout the assault, according to FOX 19.
The person “is continuous to undergo from his accidents. He was brutally overwhelmed within the assault, like many others had been, and he’s persevering with his medical therapy,” Brannon informed the outlet. “Nonetheless kinda processing on how this victim-blaming has occurred.”
Brannon reportedly pointed to his shopper appearing in self-defense throughout the assault, whereas vowing to combat the costs.
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(High L-R) Dominique Kittle, DeKyra Vernon, Patrick Rosemond, Jermaine Matthews, (Backside L-R) Aisha Devaughn, Gregory Wright and Montianez Merriweather are going through varied prices for his or her alleged roles within the viral beatdown in Cincinnati, Ohio on July 26, 2025. (Hamilton County Jail; Fulton County Sheriff’s Workplace)
“It’s very clear in all the movies, besides these edited for political functions, that [he] was, in actual fact, appearing in self-defense of himself and his associates,” Brannon mentioned.
Brannon didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
The fight broke out on the nook of West Fourth and Elm streets within the early morning hours of July 26. Bystander footage of the assault exhibits a White man hitting a Black man carrying a purple shirt within the face, moments earlier than the scene devolved into chaos, in the end leaving six individuals injured and shortly going viral on-line.
The person is charged with disorderly conduct and has been ordered to look in court docket on Aug. 26. He’s the eighth particular person to be arrested for his alleged involvement within the beatdown.
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Footage of the viral Cincinnati brawl exhibits people yelling racial slurs because the violence unfolds. An eighth particular person has been charged within the brawl, however is taken into account a sufferer, police mentioned Tuesday. (Jay Black)
In gentle of the newest improvement, neighborhood leaders all through Cincinnati have spoken out concerning the man’s arrest – with some officers beforehand calling for the person to be charged, as the primary seven suspects are Black.
“We have now been clear about the truth that anybody concerned in perpetrating violence ought to be held accountable,” Mayor Aftab Pureval mentioned in a press release, according to WLWT. “That is one other step towards reaching that, and I wish to thank CPD and the prosecutors for his or her laborious work as this course of continues.”
Nonetheless, Cincinnati Fraternal Order of Police President Ken Kober ripped the arrest after beforehand accusing the Pureval administration of exerting stress on regulation enforcement to discover a crime to cost the victims with.
“Metropolis Solicitor [Emily] Woerner and the Pureval administration’s blatant political meddling is essentially the most egregious I’ve witnessed in my profession,” Kober mentioned in a press release to Fox Information Digital. “Overruling regulation enforcement and prosecutors for affordable political factors is a disgraceful stain on our metropolis, and people accountable ought to be completely ashamed of themselves.”
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Ohio state Rep. Cecil Thomas sounded off on the severity of the costs, after beforehand internet hosting a city corridor to debate town’s dealing with of the investigation.
“The cost of Disorderly Conduct, a fourth-degree misdemeanor, is a slap within the face to the Black Group,” Thomas mentioned in a press release to Fox Information. “This solely inflames the neighborhood much more. The correct prices for him ought to have been assault and aggravated rioting. Nonetheless, if town or prosecutor really needed to diffuse this case and produce the temperature down, they need to drop all aggravated rioting prices and scale back all felonious assault prices all the way down to misdemeanor assault, apart from the person that struck the girl. Underneath no circumstance can I condone a person hitting a lady. Cost everybody, black or white accordingly and let the courts resolve their destiny. Finish of story.”
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David Whitehead, president of town’s NAACP chapter, additionally reportedly reacted to the brand new prices.
“The Cincinnati NAACP stands by and advocates for justice beneath the regulation,” Whitehead mentioned, in keeping with WLWT. “We nonetheless query the equity in charging primarily based on the data we’ve seen and the conversations we’ve had. Road altercations usually lead to disorderly conduct prices and there are no less than 5 defendants being charged past that. We stay up for studying extra concerning the circumstances and receiving the findings of the ultimate investigation. Within the meantime, we encourage everybody who believes in a good judicial system to register to vote, as a result of that’s how jury swimming pools are decided.”
Pureval and Whitehead didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
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Gregory Wright, 32, is accused of focusing on a person who had been knocked down throughout the assault and taking a sequence off a sufferer’s neck. He’s charged with aggravated rioting and aggravated theft. Aug. 12, 2025, Cincinnati, Ohio. (David Ferrara/USA At this time Community Through Imagn Photos)
Patrick Rosemond, 38, Jermaine Matthews, 39, Montianez Merriweather, 34, DeKyra Vernon, 24, Dominique Kittle, 37, and Aisha Devaughn, 25, are every charged with three counts of alleged felonious assault, three prices of assault and two prices of aggravated rioting, the Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Workplace confirmed to Fox Information Digital.
Final week, authorities additionally introduced the arrest of 32-year-old Gregory Wright. Wright was arraigned on alleged aggravated riot and aggravated theft prices on Thursday morning, the place he appeared just about within the Hamilton County Jail.
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In line with court docket paperwork, Wright, who’s a convicted heroin trafficker with a prolonged prison file, “did by drive rip the necklace off the sufferer whereas he was being assaulted by 4 or extra co-defendants, making an attempt to trigger critical bodily hurt.”
On Thursday, an Ohio choose lowered Wright’s bond from $100,000 to $50,000, however he’s solely required to pay 10% – or $5,000 – to be launched.
Wright’s legal professional didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
