Re: Wild video shows cops beat down anti-ICE protester after demonstration blocks Cincinnati bridge

"Scout" <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:43:10 -0400
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"Klaus  Schadenfreude" <klaus.schadenfreude.Zwergentö[email protected]> wrote 
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> <[email protected]> typed:
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>>Wild video shows the moment cops beat down an anti-ICE protester who was
>>part of a demonstration that blocked a vital bridge out of Cincinnati,
>>Ohio.
>>
>>At least 15 people were arrested on felony rioting and various
>>misdemeanor charges after protesters clashed with cops on the Roebling
>>Bridge, which spans the Ohio River between Cincinnati and Covington, KY
>>as they called for the release of a former hospital chaplain detained by
>>US Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this month.
>>
>>In the dramatic video, a Covington cop is seen repeatedly punching a man
>>in the head.
>>
>>The protester, wearing a red Cincinnati Reds baseball cap, was standing
>>off to the side of the bridge when he was hit and wrestled to the
>>ground.
>>
>>As one officer pinned him down, a second continued to punch him while
>>protesters yelled at the cops.
>>
>>Cops were seen dragging away a female protester who tried to step in,
>>while another man was shoved to the ground by an officer.
>>
>>The man in the baseball cap seen getting punched in the head during
>>Thursdayâ?Ts protest has been named as Brandon Hill.
>>
>>Cops say he tried to disarm an officer carrying a pepper ball gun when
>>he was detained, but Hill insisted he was just trying not to get shot.
>>
>>â?oIf anything like that happened, itâ?Ts because a random gun was pointed
>>in my face,â?? Hill told WCPO.
>>
>>He was one of around 100 people who marched across the Roebling Bridge
>>and blocked traffic as part of Thursday eveningâ?Ts vigil for Imam Ayman
>>Soliman, an Egyptian immigrant and former Cincinnati Childrenâ?Ts Hospital
>>chaplain, who was detained by ICE on July 9.
>>
>>Some 50 officers responded to clear the bridge.
>>
>>The officer who punched Hill thought he was pulling a gun from a bag he
>>had around his shoulders and chased him to the side of the bridge before
>>trying to pull him from the railing without falling into the Ohio River,
>>Covington Police Chief Brian Valenti told a press conference Friday.
>>
>>â?oThe last officer we lost in the line of duty was because he fell off of
>>a bridge while fighting,â?? he said.
>>
>>He admitted that none of the protesters were found to have weapons.
>>
>>Dramatic police bodycam video showing Hill being hit during his arrest
>>was also shown during the press conference.
>>
>>The officer involved was placed on administrative duty with pay while an
>>investigation continues, WCPO reported.
>>
>
>>Hill went to the hospital after his release from jail to treat bruises and 
>>scratches to his head, and pepper ball welts to his shins.
>>
>>His arm is potentially fractured and will require further testing, he 
>>said.
>>
>>"I did not try to attack anyone. We were there peacefully, exercising our 
>>First Amendment rights," Hill said
>
> No, you lying sack of left-wing shit. You were not exercising ANY
> rights. You do not have the right to block a highway, street, road,
> avenue, boulevard, bridge, or sidewalk.

Wonder if they should be held for a mental evaluation because standing the 
middle of an active road could be considered attempted suicide.