When a mob violently attacked two people in downtown Cincinnati last week, video of the beat-down spread across social media. But not a single major television network covered the story. It didn’t fit the mainstream media’s narrative about racial violence in America. The victims were white, and as of Wednesday police had arrested six black suspects for their alleged roles in the public pummeling.
Today’s media seems to conflagrate over violence only when the perpetrator is white and the victim is black. Then the cameras roll, protests erupt, and hashtags fly. But when the races are reversed, the mainstream media buries the incident or ignores it entirely. The same is true of black-on-black violence.
#BREAKING : The entire video of the brutal attack on this couple in Cincinnati Music Festival.
This is a hate crime that has attempted murder, written all over it.
Why won't the media cover Cincinnati? #Cincinnati #attack #CincinnatiOhio pic.twitter.com/enkOg6tLBD
— U R B A N S E C R E T S (@stiwari1510) July 27, 2025
