By now we’ve all seen the footage of a black mob attacking and brutally beating several white people on the streets of Cincinnati during a music festival. One white woman was knocked unconscious by an adult man, causing blood to flow from her mouth. Meanwhile, as one white guy was kicked and dragged away, one of the thugs yelled, “He shouldn’t be outside,” as if certain races were barred from walking down public streets. Even though most mainstream outlets have attempted to censor the racial dimension of the story, at this point, you’d have to be blind to miss it. Video evidence is difficult to downplay or deny, especially now that some social media platforms aren’t relentlessly censored to the same degree they once were.
Therefore, as we discussed yesterday, the police chief in Cincinnati — a bitter old schoolmarm named Terri Theetge — has decided to attack the media, as well as the people who filmed the violence. She doesn’t know what else to do. She can’t blame black people, because that would be racist. And she certainly can’t accept responsibility for the fact that Cincinnati police were nowhere to be found, as downtown Cincinnati transformed into Mogadishu, minus the Blackhawk helicopters. So her response is to wag her finger at everyone else. Short of blaming the people who were nearly pummeled to death, Terri took the single most shameful and unconvincing approach that she possibly could have taken.
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