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Cincinnati, Ohio — Residents of southwestern Ohio are expressing their anger towards local leaders after a viral street battle in the backyard that caught the nation’s attention. One local political activist told Fox News Digital that “Democrat monopoly” was partially responsible.
Saturday night violence in downtown Cincinnati on July 26 was the result of a city “prepared” for political ideology as it unconsciously knocked a woman on the street with the hands of a male attacker. He added that the response to the fight was “not leadership.”
“The leadership comes out and says, ‘Hey, there’s a problem. I have my solution to fix it,'” Kohler said. “But instead, they want to hide the fact that they’re coronavirus and that the crime is actually happening.”
The Cincinnati mayor and other local officials have recently faced passionate criticism over their perception that they have not taken crimes seriously. An elected Democrat, Victoria Park Councillor, posted on social media, saying the victims of the fight “begged for that beatdown.”
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Fox News Digital spoke to Cincinnati resident Adam Koehler about crimes in the city. (Fox News Digital)
“This is the Democrat monopoly they have here,” Kohler, an entrepreneur and former candidate for Hamilton County Commissioner, told Fox News Digital. “So they can do almost anything they want, and a lot of that kind of rhetoric is excused, right? It’s an injustice of the past and you know now that I feel I can say anything I want.
Holly was hurt by being brutally knocked out in the attack and told Fox News he was receiving calls from the mayor and top officials this week.
Koehler told Fox News Digital that the Democrats who run the city “have an agenda,” “want to see a certain way,” and “want to ignore the issue.”
“It’s a lot of these ideologies that come out of college, right?” Kohler said. “Every generation thinks they understand something about crime and they are easy people, they wanted to do things, you know, policies like what Giuliani did in New York, that kind of thing works.”
Of the 100 people who have seen and recorded violent attacks, only one person is called 911.
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Koehler, who was talking to Fox News Digital outside of the Cincinnati west event at GOP’s governor candidate Vivek Ramaswamy Town Hall, said numbers like Ramaswamy, Sen. Bernie Moreno and Ohio native VP JD Vance are optimistic about dealing with crime spikes downtown.
“They got empowered,” Kohler said. “The point is to start throwing DOJs here and start investigating some of the things that are happening. Why wasn’t there more police?”
“Whenever there is one party monopoly in every city, it means there will be a lot of glyfts. Obviously, you’re going to have corruption,” Koehler said.
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Sen. Bernie Moreno will speak at a press conference on Wednesday, August 6, 2025 at the Ohio Police Headquarters Brothers Order and with Holly, the victim of the Cincinnati viral July 26 brawl.
Moreno said this week that he was introducing “Holly’s act.” This is a move aimed at ending what he repeatedly calls the revolving door of the judicial system for criminals.
“To be honest, it’s because in many cases you qualify for this as a brawl,” Moreno told reporters. “This was an attempted murder of an innocent woman. And the person had a rap sheet that was a mile long. Anyone with that rap sheet should not walk free of charge on the streets of Ohio City.”
Julia Bonavita and Peter D’Abrosca of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
Andrew Mark Miller is a Fox News reporter. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email him with tips to Andrewmark.miller@fox.com.
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