Outrageous outburst of ‘anti-white’ Cincinnati police chief after she was axed over
An under-fire police chief claims she is a scapegoat who is too talented to fire after she was suspended over a man-on-woman brawl in her crime-ridden city that shocked America.
Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge, who makes $203,000 a year, was placed on paid administrative leave Monday evening and had her newly-hired lawyer Stephen Imm rage at the decision on her behalf at a press conference Tuesday morning.
Theetge, who has been sued over claims she is anti-white, was urged to resign last week, Imm said on Tuesday as his stony-faced client stood beside him while clad in black.
Her suspension followed after she refused, with Theetge facing widespread condemnation over an July mass-fight in downtown Cincinnati that made global headlines.
‘Late yesterday she learned she was being placed on leave, there was no justification for this action,’ Imm said Tuesday
‘She’s done nothing to deserve being removed from her position.
‘The unfortunate conclusion we have to reach from these facts is that she’s being used as a political scapegoat and a political pawn. Terry deserves better than this.
‘There is no one better qualified or better equipped than Terry Theetge to confront crime in the city of Cincinnati right now.
‘Her experience, talent, ability and expertise are needed more than ever. The loss of her leadership at this critical time is a blow to this city. It has made us less safe.
Imm went on to claim rank-and-file Cincinnati police were standing behind Theetge, although she was sued earlier this year over claims she deliberately stood in the way of promotions for some police officers because they were white men.
Suspended Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge is pictured on Tuesday morning as her employment lawyer launched a furious attack on officials in the Ohio city for putting her on leave
This is the image that pushed Cincinnati into national headlines. A woman was beaten to the ground by a man during a shocking mass brawl
When questioned, Imm said his client was ‘hamstrung by politics’, but refused to elaborate further when asked to explain his comments.
‘Sentence has already been passed on Terry, they’re looking for a scalp, they’re looking for a scapegoat’, he said.
Theetge sparked fury over her response to a brawl in July which saw a white woman being attacked by a group of men, all of which was caught on camera.
The police chief scolded journalists for taking the shocking fight ‘out of context’ without offering any explanation as to what the context was.
Prior to that, she was sued by cops in her own department over claims she is an anti-white racist who frustrated Caucasian officers’ attempts to rise up the ranks.
Chief Theetge, who earns over $200,000 a year, was placed on leave on Monday amid an internal investigation into her leadership
According to Chief Theetge, the large scale riot involved some 100 people
City Manager Sheryl Long announced the move, she added that Assistant Chief Adam Hennie would step up as interim police chief.
Long said: ‘The City continues to face serious public safety challenges that underscore the need for stability at the command level.
‘Our focus remains on maintaining stability within the department and ensuring the highest standards of service to our residents.
‘I have full confidence in Interim Chief Hennie and the department’s command staff to continue their dedicated work at this time.’
Mayor Aftab Pureval added: ‘I fully support City Manager Long’s decision. I’m confident that the Interim Chief, our entire police force and our administration will continue to put the safety of our residents above everything else.’
The city was forced into the national spotlight over the brawl which happened in the downtown area of the city.
The mass brawl showed a man and a woman, known only as Holly, being violently accosted by a group of black men.
Holly later said the brutal assault left her with brain trauma, images also emerged showing her severely bruised after the attack.
Seven people were subsequently indicted in August on three counts each of felonious assault and assault, and two counts of aggravated riot
The woman attacked, known only as Holly, is seen here with horrific injuries following the brawl
Seven people were subsequently indicted in August on three counts each of felonious assault and assault, and two counts of aggravated riot.
Theetge said at the time that the large scale riot involved some 100 people, and that six people were subjected to ‘unimaginable physical violence’.
It sparked a national debate about public safety and race in the city, with Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk passing comment on footage of the brawl.
When the Daily Mail visited the city after the brawl broke out, the near desolate streets where dotted with homeless drug addicts openly abusing substances.
More recently three people were shot in the heart of the downtown area last week alone.
That included one man who was shot multiple times and killed inside a vehicle outside a bar in the early hours of Friday.
Besides the problems on the streets, Chief Theetge was accused of anti-white racism and sexism by four department veterans in a lawsuit.
Capt. Robert Wilson, and Lts. Patrick Caton, Gerald Hodges and Andrew Mitchell said in their complaint that her department disfavored and disregarded white men for top positions in the force.
The four claim in their suit that the department disregarded qualifications, time spent with the department and commanders’ staffing requests, when picking top brass.
‘Plaintiffs, who are White males, were denied all opportunities for preferred assignments due to their race and/or sex,’ the complaint states.
They claim the department and the city ‘intentionally’ and ‘disproportionately favored non-white males and/or females’.
The suit, filed in May before the brawl happened, added that the city and Chief Theetge had, ‘actively undertaken efforts to promote, advance and make promotion and assignment decision that are preferable to women and minorities’.
Calls made to a number listed for Theetge went unanswered on Tuesday morning.