Reactions to Graphic Images of Cincinnati Attack Victim Expose Racial Divide
“They begged for that beat down! I am grateful for the whole story.”
Senator Bernie Moreno (R-OH) has been in contact with the woman who was brutally assaulted last weekend in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. With her permission, he shared photos showing her bruised and swollen face—injuries inflicted by a group of predominantly young black individuals.
Her name is Holly. The assault began when a woman struck her. Moments later, a man punched her directly in the face, knocking her to the ground. She lost consciousness, and video footage shows blood streaming from her mouth.
Cincinnati is an amazing and spectacular City. It deserves political leadership that matches the greatness of its citizens.@AftabPureval issues a late/weak statement, Police Chief blames social media (not the lack of almost 200 officers), Prosecutor @ConniePillich lets off… pic.twitter.com/6BzfO48m4G
— Bernie Moreno (@berniemoreno) July 30, 2025
In his post, Moreno criticized the city’s leadership, beginning with Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval, whose three days of silence following the violent attacks was deafening. When Pureval finally addressed the incident, he downplayed the savage beating of a white couple by a group of black youths as a “fight.”
— Aftab Pureval (@AftabPureval) July 28, 2025
Moreno also called out Cincinnati Police Chief Terri Theetge who pointed her finger at reporters during a Monday press conference and said, “Social media posts and your coverage of it distorts the context of what actually happened, and that makes our job more difficult. … Yes guys, that’s you. That is you.”
Asked by a reporter what exactly had been distorted, Theetge dodged the question. I covered this story here.
While many users on X expressed outrage over the vicious attack on this woman, a few seemed to feel she deserved what happened to her.
Didn’t Russian guy started all of this by slapping black guy? I mean, all of the involved should be punished.
— Mario (@PawlowskiMario) July 30, 2025
By far, the most appalling comment came from Cincinnati City Council President Pro Tem Victoria Parks who responded to a Facebook post: “They begged for that beat down! I am grateful for the whole story.”
[Fox News noted that the comment was made by “an account that appears to belong to Councilwoman Victoria Parks.” It was a response to a post from “a Facebook user called Leohna Alia La JCannon that shows the vicious assault.]
Given her prior advocacy for causes such as declaring racism a public health crisis, her sentiments aren’t surprising. What is startling, however, is that a public official would be reckless enough to put them in writing.
Actual social media comments made by a sitting member of Cincinnati City Council … pic.twitter.com/JXQkKjJCoS
— Cory Bowman (@corymbowman) July 30, 2025
Although Parks announced in January that she plans to retire at the end of her current term, her breathtaking comment has triggered demands for her immediate dismissal.
Ohio State Rep. Phil Plummer, a Republican, wrote on X: “Cincinnati Councilwoman Victoria Parks must resign immediately!”
Cincinnati Councilwoman Victoria Parks must resign immediately! Defending violent criminals who viciously beat innocent people is disgusting.
Her words “They begged for that beat down!” are outrageous.
Prosecutors must charge the attackers with a hate crime. We must… pic.twitter.com/sNv8ecPyNG
— Phil Plummer (@PhilPlummerOH) July 30, 2025
Another commenter called her “a racist pig.”
You’re a racist pig, Victoria Parks. https://t.co/YLpha7A7cW
— Bob Hansen (@retiredLAdeputy) July 30, 2025
#Cincinnati board member #VictoriaParks deserves to be fired today! She's a horrible evil #racist! She doesn't need to have any job where she has to deal with people who are white. pic.twitter.com/Bvv5Z5V4NF
— John and Jane Public (@MrMrsJohnPublic) July 30, 2025
The attack did more than inflict physical harm—it exposed the simmering racial tensions that so often lurk just beneath the surface. The straight-up racist responses from predominantly white commenters, but some black users on X, made clear that these divisions are still very much alive in America today.
Black people shouldn’t be in positions of power they are all hateful and disconnected people
— Blex.S4L 🦆🌭 (@BarterBlex) July 31, 2025
What’s so amazing about Cincinnati?
Stop cheerleading: Anti-white racism is OUT OF CONTROL in Cincinnati.
Stop pandering to black people, FFS. It’s so grotesque for you to be playing ‘booster’. The entire music festival was an anti-white, hate event. Being told to not buy…
— War for the West (@War4theWest) July 30, 2025
This happens all the time in every city across America. As Americans we are just expected to tolerate and live with the constant threat of black violence.
— Expended Asset (@jam3240) July 30, 2025
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One of the tweets is truncated prematurely:
“The entire music festival was an anti-white, hate event. Being told to not buy from white vendors etc.”
“Being told not to buy from white vendors?” WTF is that about? By whom — city officials, festival promoters, or other vendors?
This guide isn’t only about places, it’s about purpose. Choosing to eat, shop, and spend time in Black-owned spaces is a way to show up with intention, celebrate culture, and keep the community thriving.
Keep this itinerary close. Share it. Add to it. Let it be a reminder that small, everyday decisions can help build the kind of community we all want to live in.
https://www.everythingcincy.com/articles/things-to-do/an-itinerary-for-supporting-black-owned-businesses-in-cincinnati-during-the-cmf
Maybe they could just hang signs in the window that read “Honky Free”.
Those people can get away with it. Let a non-black merchant put a “restricted clientele “ sign in the window and watch for national news coverage.
“injuries inflicted by a group of predominantly young black individuals”
Dilbert has it right, “’I don’t want to have anything to do with them. And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people…because there is no fixing this,’ Adams ranted.”
https://atlantablackstar.com/2023/02/27/thats-a-hate-group-cancel-culture-cans-dilbert-creator-after-he-criticizes-black-americans-education-and-calls-black-people-a-hate-group/
“In my city, we would keep the traffic in the dark people – the colored. They’re animals anyway, so let them lose their souls.”
The very wise Giuseppe Zaluchi,
Why not, black leadership is already down with “Juden Frei” ideology. Back around 2000 my elder sis and I were in Cleveland to attend a Gaming Con and while there visited the Rock & Roll HoF and downtown. Saw a crazy (we figured) black dude ranting & screaming in front of a classic looking commercial bank about The Jews and how they secretly Controlled The World, etc., etc..
Crazy that so many BL has switched sides to agree with the KKK to be pro-segregation and anti-Jew. Anti-white is just the next logical step.
If they want segregation I’m not at all opposed to honoring their wishes.
I think the phrase is Judenrein. Rein is free as in absence of, not Frei, like in Freedom (freiheit.).
Your pædantic friend, The Gentle Grizzly.
Grizzly, according to Wiki-P both terms were used by the National Socialists – so both terms are correct…
Judenfrei (German: [ˈjuːdn̩ˌfʁaɪ], “free of Jews”) and judenrein (German: [ˈjuːdn̩ˌʁaɪn], “clean of Jews”) are terms of Nazi origin to designate an area that has been “cleansed” of Jews during the Holocaust.
BobM, to expand on what you wrote, because it may no be quite clear, Judenfrei means free of Jews i.e. there are none left in the area. Judenrein means the area has been sanitised, that no evidence of them ever existing in an area is left. Both can be genocidal, but the latter entails far far more effort.
To translate it into an American paradigm, one could argue that the Left’s jihad against statues and renaming of buildings ‘Confederate-rein’ – an effort to totally remove any evidence of non-approved people or views from having ever existed in (militant Marxist) approved society.
Yeah, this is far from suggesting visitors avoid white vendors.
Goose, gander.
If you flip it – print festival handouts promoting buying at exclusively white vendors – that’s certainly racist.
Just because Black Racists haven’t yet started painting some sort of “Whitey” symbol on vendor booths and store windows (not that they need to – unlike Jews you can spot all the whites without removing their pants) or organizing their street thug enforcers into uniformed cadres doesn’t mean this doesn’t reek of Krystal Knacht ideology.
try again
“Yeah, this is far from suggesting visitors avoid white vendors.”
Nudge nudge wink wink.
(I use those muslim business guides for the opposite purpose for which they are designed.)
“it exposed the simmering racial tensions that so often lurk just beneath the surface”
A large percentage of American blacks are racist and nearly as bad a Muslims. They routinely lie, cheat, steal, assault and murder at a far higher rate per capita than the rest of out society. They think that they are entitled, largely because they have been allowed to get away with this by Dems.
Probably the musicians on stage.
Or maybe it was the guide!
Let’s reverse this: white mob beats black couple, white city council member says the black couple deserved this.
Now, what kind of outcry do you think would happen under this altered fact set?
That city would already be a pile of cinders…
I missed this point in my previous post, bald faced hypocrites.
This.
I’d expect nothing different from a “sistah”.
Was it them again, Yogi?
Yes BooBoo…it was them
Yes, and so hard to bear.
Fur sure, Big Bear.
A grizzly situation indeed.
You’re far too gentle!
“Cincinnati is an amazing and spectacular City.”
Not so much. It’s a 3rd world $hit-hole. Even the locals call it “Cincinnasti.”
Are there any black dominated cities that are not?
Johannesburg. Oh, wait…!
Salisbury Rhodesia. Oh, wait…!
Flint Michigan. Oh, wait…!
You can thank Zero at least in part for this divide. Nearly everything he did had the result of driving a wedge between blacks and whites.
I am sick and tired of these morons who see a “racism” boogeyman behind every bush. If “black is beautiful,” then I too have the right to be proud of my white, European heritage. That’s no more “racist” or “nazi” or “eugenics” than being proud of black heritage or Hispanic heritage or fill in the blank.
If there comes a race war, it will be because these fools can’t get rid of their narcissistic impulse to blame Whitey for everything in life that doesn’t go the way they want it too.
upvoted you but why do you think there already isnt a lefty pushed race war?
the streets have been run by the left for 5+ decades now
I mean if & when it turns hot.
I watch a lot of police bodycam videos. About 5 seconds after being shot, 99% of the perps have a completely different attitude, as it is way different than when it happens while playing GTA6. I suspect that the same will happen when the left decides to take things hot and meets resistance. I predict it will take them all of 1 minute to work it though that this really wasn’t a good idea, and 5 minutes to realize that once that switch gets flipped, they don’t get to decide when it gets turned off. The smart ones are starting to realize that Hamas vs IDF is how it is going to play out.
This is why the animals in zoos are caged.
I’m glad I live in north Tucson. I’ve been here four months and I have encountered precisely two black people.
One, a doctor from Ethiopia who was sharp as a tack, highly competent, and a great sense of humor. Another was a nurse at the emergency room. No attitude, spoke clear and proper English, and just gave off a good vibe.
What did you do to yourself that you’ve only met medical personnel? 😮
My doc called in a panic over a ZioPatch printout. Heart stoppages as long as 9 seconds and other fun delights caused him to want me to go to Emergency. They stuffed a pacemaker in me June 27th. I still have other heart issues but those will be addressed with ablation.
AFIB eh? Me too.
Ablation worked for me…. 7 years out and pulse fine though slightly fast at times as can happen. Very high tech…. froze pulmonary veins at left atrial margins and then a scar created in right ventricle to prevent reentry pathway. 3D CT of chest integrated with 3D navigation for virtual surgery. Alas, I was zonked out with propofol so all was getting on table and waking in recovery. Good luck!
No A-flutter. No pacemaker is made to control that.
To Alaskabob: thanks for the encouragement. They do wonderful things these days.
(I keep thinking of you opening an Indian food truck. Ala’s Kabob.)
Yikes! I hope you’re doing better.
Which is good news.
Which, I am hoping for good news, that is.
I at least FEEL like I am having more a-flutter episodes, but am stronger, and actually getting some things done in this disaster of a home I live in. Four months here, and still not organized.
Afib
Same as alie?
:-{)}}}
Tomorrow is the 5 year anniversary of the “quiet” heart attack that led to Pacer 1 being put in 2 weeks later. They get real excited when you walk in with a pulse in the low 30’s, just sayin.
police will OFTEN ASK/REQUEST/DEMAND THAT WHITES
NOT PRESS CHARGES AGAINST BLACK SUSPECTS
they/da will also put the fear into whites by saying
you know we can get you on charges too ( nyc subway hero penny as just one of manyyy examples)
THE HATE CRIME LAWS HAVE INTENSIFIED THE RACIAL DIVIDE
as usual…doing it leftys way creates more chaos
One of our country’s greatest problems is the enabling of black people’s bad behavior. They need to be held to the same standards as white (and Hispanic, Asian, etc.) people.
The funny part is those standards are really the standards of a bunch of olive-complected people from the east end of the Mediterranean (Jews and early Christians). (Well, they’re God’s standards and color neutral, but those are the folks who brought them to the rest of the world.)
and here we are centuries later and the ones brought here ( as you say) still hate western ways
Again, attitudes like Muslims.
lets reverse this into
White kid sings actual lyrics to rap song …gets beat down
ORRRR
white kid says the word alien….or illegal alien while in school and is put through the lefty ringer
itssss timeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I’m reminded of the time Charton Heston stood up at a stock-holder meeting of one of the major entertainment combines that had a lot of (c)rap “artists” signed on.
He stood up, and in well-enunciated English rapped the exact lyrics from some famous (c)rap “artists”. The clanking of 100 strings of pearls being clutched was delightful.
An acquaintance of mine did the same thing, but did it imitating the same talk-singing technique Rex Harrison employed in My Fair Lady. It was a real hoot!
take your damn dirty rap lyrics out my ear
The assault began when a woman struck her.
Ummmm, not according to the story out there right now. She tried to stop the attack on the man being curb-stomped, and was attacked. The attack began on the guy being curb-stomped, and continued when a woman struck her.
correct:
the video shows the white female victim to be …trying to stop the attack
and then the racists open up on her
when the wht male was on the ground the racists were doing a body drop onto his body
all things seen on videos of the racist hate crime attacks
those videos ,,like hillary emails, have a way of disappearing
No, the first use of violence seems to have been the white man slapping a black man in the face, presumably in response to something the black man said.
That was an assault and justified the use of proportionate force in response. It did not justify the massive escalation by an entire black mob.
BS
That’s Black BS lines every time
But I would expect nothing less from you
That is the legal definition of assault
However, the massive mob response would have fully justified the woman pulling out a pistol and shooting the men beating her boyfriend and leaving several of them DRT. (Use of a weapon to prevent grave physical injury) Undoubtedly, the prosecutors in this fair city would have seen this response to unbridled violence being unleashed on the couple as justification for a self-defense claim and not prosecuted them into bankruptcy/prison. (/sarcasm)
No, in that case the city would undoubtedly have imprisoned the couple and conducted a ‘trial’ while the howls of the mob outside grew, and flames engulfed the few businesses that remain.
I’m WAY more upset over the savage beatings by a mob with a cheering audience than by online comments.
Racial divide?
Oh my! I would never have guessed. That goes contrary to all the tv commercials I’ve been seeing!
yeah
lefty still plays that game while they live in walled off communities
I’m holding out some hope on that.
We just got a TV commercial with a pretty woman in it.
Dare I hope to see an all-white family in a TV commercial soon?
Are emus white?
I would never buy from that insurance company because of their stupid ads.
I Love those ads!
AWFLs are no problem, but there aren’t enough white men with black women, so that’s what ad and media producers are pushing the most now.
John Derbyshire was right, sadly. And this incident – and thousands more that don’t rise to the level of “news” – happens every day.
It happened to me when I was a kid. I learned my lesson. Fortunately, I wasn’t badly hurt.
We’d all like a world in which we all live in peace and harmony, but the raw reality is that it’s not the case.
The per capita rate of whites assaulting blacks is a fraction of blacks assaulting whites.
The Cultural Marxists want it to be this way..
Would bet Victory is a Marxists.
Scott Adams was right when he said the only safe way is to avoid blacks. As seen in Cincinnati, they are spring loaded to violence for no reason.
The big cities are devolving into No-Go Zones. No amount of forced relocation will close the fissure. Putting low cost housing into Pacific Palisades, as being proposed, will not bring harmony… just a trajectory toward rot and flight by a whole bunch of people.
The progressives want to put low income housing everywhere (except where they live) exporting the problem everywhere. Then everyone will be afraid to leave their homes which is what they want. A mobile population is not a controllable population.
Ding ding ding. We have a winner.
Never ending embolden , vicious blacks
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/white-high-school-football-player-savagely-assaulted-three/
I’ve become racist amd so be it..
the n word defense
and then they go and prove it
The new black agenda is segregation… so be it. Thomas Sowell laments what became of black America after 1964. Look back in time… the song “Take The A Train” celebrated going to Harlem to be infused with the culture. Everything the KKK wanted is now wanted by the new black cult…. segregation, gun control, unequal “justice”, privilege, financial disparity favoring them. Reparations? Nike and drug dealers would be cheering it on.
I was a teen in 64 and saw first hand the destruction, a cancer that that over time destroyed the city, and is now destroying the whole county.
Seeing how it is totes ok to be racist these days, I’ll share an Old South saying…we haven’t started playing “Cowboys and Negroes” yet.
Careful what you ask for, you may FA and FO.
Ghetto animals have been trained that ANYTHING is excusable as long as they can claim ‘racism’ was the reason.
This is actually LESS horrific than the fact that Karmelo Anthony stabbed a white teen in the heart and they tried to say, ‘well he deserved it because he probably said something racist’.
It’s time to face facts that we cannot share a country with people that act like this, or excuse this behavior.
Anyone who doesn’t understand the hate filled big cities towards whites is ignorant as hell. Maybe they didn’t deserve it but the should know that until the voting patterns change they are taking their lives into danger attending “black” events.
This event was in part racial but IMO really more about a cultural divide between ghetto/thug culture and normie culture. Unfortunately normie culture is being eroded and replaced with ghetto/thug culture that transcends race.
Take an hour or two and dive down the online rabbit hole of body cam videos. Simple traffic stops turn into chaotic felony arrests b/c the driver/occupants get belligerent. They refuse to provide DL/registration/proof of IN. Sometimes having cooperated they refuse to sign the citation. They demand a supervisor. Refuse to exit the vehicle. All for some minor traffic infraction with LEO explaining that it simply isn’t that serious and that they turning the encounter into offenses that require arrest.
TLDR – belligerence and ego instead of a sense community and cooperation is creating a divide that transcends race. Oppositional Defiance Disorder is the term. Lack of early discipline and imposing consequences has bred contempt for authority.
Belligerant behavior reflects the narrative that All Cops Are Bastards. I see it repeatedly in social media bodycam clips and in real life everyday in SC.
There’s some overlap but the ACAB loons operate from a revolutionary Marxist framework where the thug/ghetto mindset is IMO more of a warped vision of basic respect/boundaries in interaction with other people and societal institutions. One seems to be more about a narcissistic display of ego (often performative) while the other is an expression of anarchist ideals. Doesn’t really matter to the person receiving the curb stomping though.
Back in 68, they were busing black kids into our HS.
They didn’t like it, we hated it
One day, I was a substitute monitor for study hall. It takes about 5 minutes to collect all the attendance signatures so I would be late to the next class.
This was a beautiful old school with stain glass windows and marbled huge stairways.
There were 2 black girls, I’ve never seen, standing on the platform, apparently for me.
They started to call me racial names, “white bitch, etc, then they pulled my long hair…
Well that did it. No one was around but I wasn’t going to just let them pound on me, so I dropped my books and said , “ keep your black hands off of me”… I was ready to rumble, knowing I was out numbered and probably going to get a ass kicking, I was certainly going to get a few licks I .
Just at that moment, a girl named Mary Washington came around the corner, another black… thought this would be the end of me, but uknown to me, my brother fought her brother in middle school, and my brother beat the hell out of her brother, and thusly, that game me street cred and protection.
Who knew lol
But Mary told those girls to never touch me again and like good soldiers, they didn’t…
What a weird world.
A man has got to know his limitations,
Avoid gatherings of people of color, any color.
A 10mm is more than 1mm over a 9.
3 from the 9 equals six pallbearers to carry you to the grave.
Agree. Re-read the rules esp. Rule 10 of The Talk – Nonblack Version by John Derbyshire. Available on the web.