Pastor With Rap Sheet Joins Black Leaders Demanding White Cincinnati Beating Victim Be Charged With Incitement

A black pastor with a felony conviction on Monday joined other black leaders and elected officials in Cincinnati demanding a victim of a beating by a mob be charged with felonies, claiming he provoked the attack.

A Hamilton County, Ohio, grand jury indicted six people Friday on charges of rioting and assault for their actions during a brawl that left six people injured, including a single mom who intervened in an effort to stop the fight. Senior pastor Tracie Hunter of the Western Hills Brethren In Christ Church issued the demand during a Monday press conference where she and other black leaders objected to the fact that all those charged for their roles in the fracas to date, including a seventh person accused of stealing jewelry during the fight, are black.

“Because those six individuals were charged with aggravated assault, which is a felony, the white guy incited or urged six other people to commit a felony, which means based on part B of the statute, he should be charged with inciting to violence, a felony of the third degree,” Hunter claimed.

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Hunter, a former juvenile court judge in Hamilton County, claimed during the press conference that two provisions of Ohio law, Ohio Revised Code 2917.01