The Cincinnati #BlackLivesMatter Riot in Honoring a Habitual Black Criminal with Nearly 75 Prior Arrests Inches Closer

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July 23, 2015

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The fire rises… the inevitability of #BlackLivesMatter influenced riot on behalf of a dead black male – who used his car as a weapon to try and run over a cop – with nearly 75 prior arrests, inches closer. [Protesters to focus on Deters after UCPD video withheld, Cincinnati.com, July 22, 2015]:

Protesters and family members of Samuel Dubose, the man shot and killed by a University of Cincinnati police officer on Sunday, announced they plan to protest outside Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters’ office on Thursday.

A crowd of family, friends and activists gathered at City Hall Wednesday night calling for Deters to release the body camera footage from what originated as a traffic stop but ended in a fatal shooting.
Deters announced earlier Wednesday that the footage would not be released until his investigation was completed, which he estimates will take till the end of the week.

“We have to do the right thing, and that doesn’t mean blasting it all over the media when we haven’t completed our interviews, received the coroner’s report or results of the ballistics test,” Deters said. “I’m not going to jeopardize my investigation.”

Family and community members plan to pressure Deters with protests beginning at 11 a.m. Thursday.
Calls were also made for Deters to call the officer a “thug,” “soulless” and “unsalvageable” reflecting statements he made about the perpetrators of July 4 melee on Fountain Square.

“We want the same language that has been used on the black community to be used on this officer,” said Iris Roley, a member of the Cincinnati Black United Front, an organization that rallies behind equality in the community. “We want to know Joe Deters is serious about prosecuting this officer. If he does not charge him with the appropriate charges, we won’t be looking at a conviction, we won’t be looking at jail time. All we will be doing is looking at each other once again.”

Plans for further protests were discussed as well including a boycott of this weekend’s Cincinnati Music Festival, formerly known as the Ohio Valley Jazz Festival.

Never forget: blacks rioted in Baltimore in April of 2015 to honor the memory of a convicted heroin dealer.

To honor a habitual criminal in Dubose will merely be par the course for the blacks in Cincinnati.

But that Deters brings up something interesting.

Remember him? In July of 2014, a white man was targeted by a mob of blacks at the Taste of Cincinnati. [5 indicted on assault, ethnic intimidation charges in attack: 3 assaulted near Taste of Cincinnati, WLWT.com, July 16, 2014]:

Five people have been indicted in connection with a downtown attack that followed the Taste of Cincinnati.

Jon Deters, 24, was assaulted on West Ninth Street as he was walking his sister to her car on Memorial Day weekend. His father is Hamilton County prosecutor Joe Deters.

On Tuesday, Matthew Johnson Jr., 23, Joshua McCoy, 21, Onea Lapsley, 22, Yahdea Brown, 19, and a 17-year-old were each indicted on one count of felonious assault, two counts of assault, one count of aggravated riot and one count of ethnic intimidation.

A witness previously said the attack was racially motivated, noting “that was quite obvious in the slurs that were being thrown out.” The suspects are black, while Deters is white.

“If that lady hadn’t stepped in, Jon would be dead because he was a white kid and it’s disgusting either way,” Joe Deters said.

Outside of those watching the WLWT newscast in the Cincinnati region on the night of July 16, 2014, who even knows the of what befell Joe Deters when he attended the Taste of Cincinnati event?

By some twist of fate, the very same county prosecutor whose son was beaten by a black mob (his crime: being white) at the Taste of Cincinnati in 2014 is the man who will decided whether or not to press hate crime charges against the black mob which beat McKnight. [Prosecutor Joe Deters reviews downtown assault, Local 12, July 9, 2015]:

Prosecutor Joe Deters said he has reviewed the evidence of Saturday’s July 4, attack on Fountain Square and he does “not” think it was a hate crime. But that doesn’t mean the young men seen beating Christopher McKnight were going to get away with anything. So many people saw the video of McKnight, a white guy being beaten by black men, and went right to hate crime.

There is more to the story.

Prosecutor Deters told Local 12 it wasn’t just a white guy, he was a white guy who was intoxicated and had his wallet hanging out.

Deters said McKnight was robbed and he kept coming back, motioning as if he wanted to keep fighting. What he was saying was, “I want my stuff back.”

He still doesn’t have his wallet or cellphone. It really didn’t fit Ohio’s ethnic intimidation law.

Under that law motivation for the assault would have to be about race, color, religion or national origin.

In some cases, that motivation was verbalized. That was what happened in 2014 at the Taste of Cincinnati when people were indicted under that law.

The police report taken Saturday night, July 4, called the assault a “hate” crime and “anti-white.”

Captain Neville said he didn’t think that was what it was going to be and Joe Deters agreed. But Deters also said he was going after the men in that video.

It was Deters own son who was attacked by a group of blacks during the Taste of Cincinnati event in 2014 referenced in the WKRC CBS (Local 12) story above…

There’s a frightening lesson somewhere in these two stories, separated by only 12 months: multiple black people attacking a lone person, with one of the episodes victim including the son of the Hamilton County prosecutor and the other including the same prosecutor who quickly brushed aside the news McKnight’s beating might have been motivated by racial hate.

But what’s the lesson?

Now, Deters will make a decision ultimately condemning the city to enduring more black riots (see 2001 riots in the city) and potential black on white assaults in the name of Justice for Samuel Dubose… just as his own son endured at the 2014 Taste of Cincinnati event.

Regardless of what the body cam shows of the event, this one incident in Cincinnati will bring about a #BlackLivesMatter riot.