Angry Female Police Chief Claims Video Of Violent Cincinnati Mob Was Missing ‘Context’

Cincinnati Police Department Chief Teresa Theetge claimed during a Monday press conference that viral footage of a violent brawl that broke out in Cincinnati, Ohio, is missing “context.”

Footage from around 3:06 a.m. on Saturday showed a group of people brutally beating a man and appearing to knock a female witness out cold in a downtown neighborhood. While holding a press conference to address the incident, Theetge accused social media and “mainstream” journalists of misrepresenting the incident and of making it “more difficult” for law enforcement to adequately handle the incident.

“Social media, the posts that we’ve seen, does not depict the entire incident. That is one version of what occurred. At times, social media and mainstream media and their commentaries are misrepresentations of the circumstances surrounding any given event,” Theetge said. “What that does, that causes 🇺🇸US some difficulty in thoroughly investigating the activity and enforcing the law. Because what happens, that social media post and your coverage of it distorts the content of what actually happened and it makes our job more difficult.”

The video shows a man being chased into the street and then repeatedly kicked, stomped and body slammed by multiple people, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer. A woman who rushed to his aid got attacked by a woman and then a man punched her in the face, causing her to be knocked unconscious.