From Fox News: A candidate for Cincinnati’s mayorship slammed city leadership Monday afternoon after a viral downtown beatdown that has reverberated across the nation.
“People don’t even see the sense in calling 911 anymore,” said Cory Bowman, who is also Vice President JD Vance’s half-brother in addition to being a candidate for city mayor.
Bowman placed second in a nonpartisan primary race in May. He will square off with incumbent Mayor Aftab Pureval in November. His thoughts on citizens seeing no sense in calling 911 came after Police Chief Teresa Theetge said in a press conference that only one person called police while the attack was ongoing.
Pureval said it is “unacceptable to not call the police.”
“Traffic was horrendous. People saw this,” she said. “They were fighting in front of traffic. Why didn’t people call us?”
Bowman says he isn’t surprised as police are handcuffed by the current city leadership.
“There’s two aspects of it,” Bowman said in comments to Fox News Digital. “One, it’s a wake-up call. It’s a wake-up call that we’ve got to have better policy. We’ve got to be able to take immediate action to make sure that the residents and the businesses in our communities are safe. The nation is basically seeing what us in the city have already known to be true.”
“Now, I think this is important for the nation to see it, because the nation is seeing that multiple downtown areas in America are seeing failed policies ruin their cities,” he said. “And you’re seeing riots, you’re seen fights, you’re seeing crime rise, you’re seeing laws that aren’t enforced.”
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