Residents of Cincinnati express indignation towards leaders after the street fight viral

Cincinnati, Ohio -Residents of southwest Ohio express indignation against the local management after a street fight viral in their backyard which attracted the attention of the nation. A resident, a local political activist, told Fox News Digital that a “democratic monopoly” was partly to blame.

The violence of Saturday evening in downtown Cincinnati on July 26, who left an unconscious woman in the street in the hands of a male aggressor, is the result of a city that was not “prepared” due to political ideology, Adam Koehler told Fox News Digital, from Price Hill. He added that the response to combat was “not leadership”.

“Leadership comes out and says:” Hey, we have a problem. Here is my solution to remedy it “, said Koehler. “But instead, they want to be loose and hide the fact that the crime really occurs.”

The mayor of Cincinnati and other local officials have faced animated criticism in recent days on the perception that they do not take crime seriously. An elected democrat, Victoria Parks councilor, Published on social networks Saying that the victims of the fight “begged this beat”.

The man of cincinnati who has lost an eye in unresolved raw blows says that the crime “out of control” after a brutal viral aggression

Fox News Digital spoke to the Cincinnati resident, Adam Koehler, about crime in the city. (Fox News Digital)

“This is a democratic monopoly they have here,” Fox News Digital Koehler, entrepreneur and former candidate for the County of Hamilton, told Fox News. “So, I mean that they can almost do what they want. And a lot of this kind of rhetoric is excused, right? It is, you know, past injustices and you now know that I can say everything I want and it is excused. And fortunately, there are members of the municipal council who have denounced the words of the flames.”

Holly, the woman brutally eliminated and bruised in the attack, told Fox News This week, she has not yet received a phone call from the mayor or senior officials “” apologized just about what happened and for having left these thugs and these criminals running in the streets when they should have been in prison to start “.

Koehler told Fox News Digital that Democrats leading the city “have a program” and “wanted to look in a certain way” and “ignore the problem”.

“It’s many of those ideologies that come out of universities, right?” Said Koehler. “Each generation thinks they have understood something of the crime and they are sweet people, they wanted to do things, but, you know, politicians like what Giuliani has done in New York, this kind of thing works.”

Cincinnati police chief said 100 people watching and recording violent attacks, only one called 911

(LR) Jermaine Matthews, Dominique Kittle, Dekyra Vernon, Montianez Merriweather and Patrick Rosemond face various accusations for their alleged roles in the viral beat in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 26, 2025. (Hamilton County Sheriff Bureau; Fulton County Sheriff’s Bureau; Jay Black)

Koehler, who spoke to Fox News Digital outside a candidate for the Governor of Gop Vivek Ramaswamy City Hall itselfT on the western side of Cincinnati, said that figures like Ramaswamy, Senator Bernie Moreno and the native vice-president of Ohio JD Vance are reasons to be optimistic about the fight against crime of crime in the city center.

“These guys have obtained power,” said Koehler. “I mean you are starting to throw the Doj here and start investigating some of the things that happen, why was there no more police officers?”

Koehler added: “I mean there are a lot of claws that take place whenever you have a single party monopoly in any city. Obviously, you are going to have corruption. And it’s just, it comes here, and it’s covered in what you see.”

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Senator Bernie Moreno speaks during a press conference alongside Holly, victim of the viral fight on July 26 in Cincinnati, at the siege of the fraternal police order in Ohio on Wednesday, August 6, 2025. (Julia Bonavita / Fox News Digital)

Moreno said this week He presents “Holly’s Act”, a decision to put an end to what he calls the rotating door of the judicial system for recurrences.

“Let’s be honest, because you often qualify like a fight,” Moreno told journalists. “It was tempted by the murder of an innocent woman. And that person had a rap sheet a mile long.

Julia Bonavita from Fox News Digital and Peter from Abrosca contributed to this report.