Ramaswamy condemns the “culture of the anti-law application” after the viral battle of Cincinnati

A viral video showing several people suddenly beaten in the city center of Cincinnati has the Ramaswamy which denounced an “anti-law culture” omnipresent in American society.

The former candidate for the post of republican governor of the presidential hope and Ohio spoke with Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview Monday evening before an event of the Cincinnati town hall addressing the fight against violence, claiming that he believes that the country has beaten “catalyzed a conversation in our state and through the country on this question of crime raped in the Cities of the United States.”

He called Holly’s blows, a woman in the video who apparently tried to intervene to help another victim, “totally unreasonable”.

In the video, a group of people can be seen hitting two victims, one, one, a woman identified later as Holly, ended up with “very bad brain trauma”. The incident occurred early in the morning of July 26 at the corner of the Fourth and Elm streets, in front of a popular nightclub.

Ramaswamy shared that he was in contact with Holly after contacting her to first check his well-being after the blows. He previously revealed that Holly had told him that no local elected official had contacted him after the incident.

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Following a viral video showing that several individuals were suddenly beaten during a fight in downtown Cincinnati, the candidate for the post of governor of GOP Vivek Ramaswamy denounces a “culture of the application of the law” and “people desensitized to this kind of violence”. (Reuters / Brian Snyder; X / @ Anthea06274890)

“One of the reasons why I wanted to reach out was just to see if we could help … but also to hear her point of view on the front line from what she wants to see it out,” he said. “The fact is that she, and the victims like her, want to make sure that violent crimes like this do not spread, that we can use what was a tragedy, and it was a parody which happened in Cincinnati, to be able to adopt policies that really stop this imprudent crime in our cities, stop the wave of violent crimes in cities.”

Another angle of the fight shows a battered victim in the middle of the street and shouting racial insults. Some say that the male victim slapped one of the authors before the fight, causing the beat.

Cincinnati police chief Teresa Theetge said at a press conference that there were a total of six victims. Six people were charged with crimes and four were arrested. The city’s fleeting working group is looking for the two suspects that are still at freedom. Theetge said that out of around 100 people who witnessed the incident or who were involved in the fight, only one person called the police.

Jermaine Matthews, 39, Dominique Kittle, 37, Montianez Merriweather, 34, and Dekyra Vernon, 24, were arrested for their alleged involvement in the fight.

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In the video, a group of people can be seen hitting two victims, one, one, a woman identified later as Holly, ended up with “very bad brain trauma”. (Tricia Mackie / Fox 19 on X; X / @ Anthea06274890)

He said that the United States should be a place “where Americans can really feel safe to enter their cities, have a good night without fear of being beat or attacked”.

“I do not think that it is too much to ask in the greatest known nation in the history of humanity. I do not think that it is too much to ask Cincinnati, Ohio,” he said.

Regarding the vast majority of passers-by who do not intervene during the blows, Ramaswamy commented: “It is sad to see the anti-law culture, the anti-radiation of the culture of law is spread through our country.”

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The intersection of the Fourth and Elm streets in the city center of Cincinnati, near the nightclub where the beat of the crowd took place. (Peter d’Abrosca / Fox News Digital)

“I think there are deeper problems concerning people who are agnostic to the rule of the law, people being desensitized to this kind of violence”, he continued, adding: “To our best of human beings, it is not who we are. We feel compassion when something as it happens. The ignorant is not compassion.

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He called for more “open dialogue” rather than “sweeping these problems under the carpet”.

He said that some criticized him for drawing attention to the blows, saying that “some of them give the impression that crime more important than the assault noted it”.

“I don’t think that is the case. I think the way we bring people together is through what we are doing tonight. Open dialogue, open discussion,” he said.

Julia Bonavita de Fox News Digital, Peter d’Abrosca and Deirdre Heavey contributed to this report.