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EXCLUSIVE: Ramaswamy decries ‘anti-law enforcement culture’ in wake of brutal Cincinnati beating
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EXCLUSIVE: CINCINNATI, OHIO – A viral video showing several people being brutally beaten in downtown Cincinnati has Vivek Ramaswamy decrying a pervasive «anti-law enforcement culture» in American society.
The former 2024 presidential hopeful and Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate spoke with Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview on Monday evening ahead of a Cincinnati town hall event addressing combating violence, saying that he believes the Cincinnati beating «catalyzed a conversation in our state and frankly across the country about this issue of violent crime in the cities of the United States of America.»
He called the beating of Holly, a woman in the video who apparently was attempting to intervene to help another victim, «totally unconscionable.»
In the video, a group of people can be seen pummeling two victims, one of whom, a woman later identified as Holly, ended up with «very bad brain trauma.» The incident occurred in the early morning hours of July 26 on the corner of Fourth and Elm streets, outside a popular nightclub.
Ramaswamy shared that he has been in contact with Holly after first reaching out to her to check in on her well-being after the beating. He previously revealed Holly told him that no local elected officials reached out to her after the incident.
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Following a viral video showing several individuals being brutally beaten in a brawl in downtown Cincinnati, GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is decrying an «anti-law enforcement culture» and «people being desensitized to this kind of violence.» (REUTERS/Brian Snyder; X/@Anthea06274890)
«One of the reasons I wanted to reach out was just to see if we could help… but also to hear her perspective on the front lines of what she wants to see come out of this,» he explained. «The fact of the matter is she, and victims like her, want to make sure that violent crime like this doesn’t spread, that we’re able to use what was a tragedy, and it was a travesty what happened in Cincinnati, to be able to adopt policies that actually stop this reckless crime in our cities, stop the wave of violent crime in cities.»
Another angle of the fight shows a victim being beaten in the middle of the street and yelling racial slurs. Some claim the male victim slapped one of the perpetrators before the fight, sparking the beatdown.
Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge said in a press conference that there are a total of six victims. Six people have been charged with crimes, and four have been arrested. The city’s fugitive task force is searching for the two suspects who are still at large. Theetge said that out of the approximately 100 people who witnessed the incident or were involved in the brawl, only one individual called law enforcement.
Jermaine Matthews, 39, Dominique Kittle, 37, Montianez Merriweather, 34, and Dekyra Vernon, 24, were arrested for their alleged involvement in the fight.
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In the video, a group of people can be seen pummeling two victims, one of whom, a woman later identified as Holly, ended up with «very bad brain trauma.» (Tricia Mackie/Fox 19 on X; X/@Anthea06274890)
He said the U.S. should be a place «where Americans can actually feel just safe to go into their cities, have a good night without fear of getting beaten up or assaulted.»
«I don’t think that’s too much to ask in the greatest nation known to the history of mankind. I don’t think it’s too much to ask in Cincinnati, Ohio,» he said.
Regarding the vast majority of bystanders not intervening during the beating, Ramaswamy commented, «It is sad to see the anti-law enforcement culture, the anti-rule of law culture spread across our country.»
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The intersection of Fourth and Elm streets in downtown Cincinnati, near the nightclub where the mob beating took place. (Peter D’Abrosca/Fox News Digital)
«I think there are deeper issues relating to just people being agnostic to the rule of the law, people being desensitized to this kind of violence,» he went on, adding, «At our best as human beings, that’s not who we are. We feel compassion when something like this happens. Ignoring it is not compassion. Ignoring is cruelty.»
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He called for more «open dialogue» rather than «sweeping these issues under the rug.»
He said that some have criticized him for calling attention to the beating, saying «some of them make it seem like the bigger crime than the assault was actually noticing it.»
«I don’t think that’s the case. I think that actually the way we’re going to bring people together is through what we’re doing tonight. Open dialogue, open discussion,» he explained.
Fox News Digital’s Julia Bonavita, Peter D’Abrosca and Deirdre Heavey contributed to this report.
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FIRST ON FOX: The House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for testimony regarding Jeffrey Epstein, Fox News Digital has learned.
Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., sent a flurry of subpoenas related to Epstein on Tuesday morning, with the Clintons being just two of the people that House investigators are looking to hear from.
Comer also sent a subpoena to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for records related to Epstein’s case.
Others who are being compelled to appear are former FBI directors James Comey and Robert Mueller, as well as ex-Attorneys General Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, William Barr, Jeff Sessions, and Alberto Gonzales.
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Former President Bill Clinton and others are being subpoenaed in relation to the House Oversight Committee’s Epstein probe. (Getty Images)
A House Oversight Committee subcommittee panel voted to subpoena each of the individuals, as well as the DOJ, in two respective votes last month during an unrelated hearing.
It comes after Comer followed through on an earlier full committee vote to subpoena Ghislaine Maxwell, a close former Epstein associate who was sentenced to 20 years in prison «for her role in a scheme to sexually exploit and abuse multiple minor girls with Jeffrey Epstein over the course of a decade,» according to a press release by the Southern District of New York.
Comer has agreed to delay Maxwell’s deposition until after the Supreme Court heard her petition to overturn the conviction, however.
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The committee is giving the DOJ until Aug. 19 to turn in records related to Epstein’s case, Fox News Digital has learned
Hillary Clinton is being compelled to appear on Oct. 9, and Bill Clinton on Oct. 14, according to letters sent to both of them, respectively.
Barr and Sessions, who both served as attorneys general during Trump’s first term, were subpoenaed to appear Aug. 18 and Aug. 28, respectively.
Obama-era attorneys general Lynch and Holder are being compelled to appear on Sept. 19 and Sept. 30.
Chair James Comer, R-Ky., of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, issued the subpoenas on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Former Biden attorney general Garland’s deposition date is scheduled for Oct. 2, Mueller is scheduled for Sept. 2, and Comey is scheduled for Oct. 7.
Gonzales, who served as attorney general under former President George W. Bush, is being compelled to appear Aug. 26.
It’s not immediately clear how much information the subpoenas will yield, or if those subpoenaed will cooperate with the House Oversight Committee at all.
The late pedophile Epstein committed suicide in 2019 while awaiting prosecution on federal sex trafficking charges. The GOP base has fractured over the current administration’s handling of the case, however.
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The divisions stem from a DOJ memo released in July that said, «This systematic review revealed no incriminating ‘client list.’ There was also no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions. We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.»
Far-right figures like Steve Bannon and Laura Loomer have accused the DOJ of mishandling something that’s long been seen as a priority for Trump’s base.
President Donald Trump has stood by Attorney General Pam Bondi, however, and has directed her to release any «credible» evidence related to Epstein in a bid to quell the infighting.
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice is being subpoenaed as well. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Bondi then had deputy attorney general Todd Blanche travel down to the Florida prison where Maxwell was kept until recently for a sit-down with her and her lawyer.
The DOJ has also pushed for the release of grand jury testimony related to Epstein and Maxwell’s cases.
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Democrats, meanwhile, have seized on the discord with their own newfound calls for transparency related to Epstein’s case – prompting accusations of hypocrisy from the right.
«Democrats have now seized on this as if they ever wanted transparency when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, which is an asinine suggestion for any Democrat to make. The Democrats had control of this building, the White House, for four years, and they didn’t do a dang thing when it came to transparency in regards to Jeffrey Epstein and his heinous crimes,» White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said last month.
«It was this president who directed the Department of Justice and the attorney general to do an exhaustive review of all files related to Jeffrey Epstein, which they did.»
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Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that NATO is to blame for Moscow’s decision to withdraw from a longstanding moratorium on missile deployment.
Russia’s foreign ministry announced earlier this week that it would no longer be bound by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. The U.S. had withdrawn from the treaty in 2019, but Russian officials had said they would avoid deploying short- and medium-range nuclear missiles so long as the U.S. did the same.
«The Russian Foreign Ministry’s statement on the withdrawal of the moratorium on the deployment of medium- and short-range missiles is the result of NATO countries’ anti-Russian policy,» Medvedev posted Sunday on X.
«This is a new reality all our opponents will have to reckon with. Expect further steps,» he added.
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Russia’s Deputy head of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev blamed NATO for Moscow ending a nuclear missile treaty.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had initially floated dropping the moratorium in December, citing alleged «destabilizing actions» by the U.S. and NATO.
«Since the situation is developing towards the actual deployment of U.S.-made land-based medium- and short-range missiles in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, the Russian Foreign Ministry notes that the conditions for maintaining a unilateral moratorium on the deployment of similar weapons have disappeared,» the ministry said in a statement at the time.
The INF treaty, signed in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, eliminated an entire class of weapons – ground-launched missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500 kilometers.
President Donald Trump listens at an event to promote his proposal to improve Americans’ access to their medical records in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, July 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Medvedev’s latest comments come amid an ongoing back-and-forth with President Donald Trump. The former Russian president had goaded Trump in a series of posts on X, claiming the U.S. was moving toward «war» with Moscow.
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In response, Trump announced that the U.S. was redeploying two nuclear submarines to «appropriate regions» closer to Moscow.
The Kremlin released a statement downplaying Medvedev’s comments soon afterward.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime says it approaches nuclear issues with «great caution.» (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)
«We approach any statements related to nuclear issues with great caution,» Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said. «As you know, Russia holds a responsible position. President Putin’s stance is well known.»
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«Russia takes the issue of nuclear non-proliferation very seriously,» he added. «And, of course, we believe that everyone should be extremely careful when it comes to nuclear rhetoric.»
Reuters contributed to this report
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