There is one Cincinnati council member right now who sparked a tremendous online backlash with her response to one of several videos of the viral 26 July fight in downtown Cincinnati.
"They begged for that beat down!" Councilwoman Victoria Parks posted to Facebook on Sunday, 27 July at 4:50 A.M. in response to a video showing some of the brawl. "I am grateful for the whole story."
Cincinnati's council is officially nonpartisan, but Parks, like all nine members, was endorsed by the local Democratic party.
While the post garnered some criticism online, Parks hadn't deleted the post as of 3:30 P.M. 30 July. The profile on the post links to one of two Facebook profile pages for Parks and the one that has been most active since she joined Cincinnati City Council in 2022. The other Parks Facebook profile hasn't had a post since 2022.
Three people have been arrested after videos of a fight in downtown Cincinnati on 26 July have gone viral in recent days, becoming part of a broader national argument about politics, crime and race.
Multiple videos of the 3:00 A.M. fight Downtown circulated on social media over the weekend, showing a fight breaking out in a crowd. People threw punches, kicked and jeered as a man on the ground tried to fend off the blows and a woman tumbled to the concrete, bloody and disoriented.
The video Parks reacted to doesn't show how the fight began but appears to show the moments before it escalated.
Cincinnati Councilman Victoria Parks (D) on the viral white attacks: "They begged for it" pic.twitter.com/xnpJLTBrmk
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