Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval has been missing in action for days after a brutal beatdown that went viral on social media left many people injured, raising questions about the city’s leadership and priorities.
Pureval has been on a long-planned family vacation in Vancouver, Canada, The Enquirer reported.
A video lit up social media over the weekend that showed a mob of people violently attacking one man, as well as a woman who tried to help him, during the early morning hours on Saturday.
Pureval, a Democrat, reportedly told the news outlet he found out about the incident the same day, though he decided to still take his family on a family vacation.
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Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, was a guest on “Fox and Friends” on Thursday morning when he lambasted the mayor and other city leaders for their handling of the assault, calling it a “heinous situation.”
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He announced plans to have federal agencies review the funding Cincinnati receives from the federal government.
Moreno also said he is giving Cincinnati leaders a month to produce a plan to protect the civil rights of their citizens.
“If they don’t do it…I’m going to ask these agencies to suspend all federal funding because we’re not going to put up with this,” Moreno said. “They’re down 200 police officers. The police chief blames social media. The city council person blamed the victim. The mayor went to a misfit mayor’s conference and then took a vacation to Canada and hasn’t been back in town since then.
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One of those city leaders is City Councilwoman Victoria Parks, who came under fire for a post on Facebook in the wake of the beatdown.
Under a post from a Facebook user called Leohna Alia La JCannon that showed the vicious assault, an account that appears to belong to Parks commented, “They begged for that beat down!”
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Another city official taking criticism for her handling of the incident is Cincinnati Chief of Police Teresa Theetge, who has blamed social media and mainstream media for not showing the entire story.
Her department has also been fairly silent on its investigation into the beatdown that occurred.
Despite Theetge announcing that five people had been charged for their involvement in the attack, it was not until Tuesday that three individuals were arrested.
One of those individuals, Montianez Merriweather, had recently been released from police custody after posting $400 cash bail for serious crimes.
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