July 29, 2025 • 23 mins
Retired Cincinnati police officer Andre Ewing pulls no punches in critiquing the current administration's approach to public safety. He passionately argues for a stronger police presence at major events, questioning why there weren't more officers on the ground during a recent downtown incident that could have been prevented. His unique perspective challenges city leaders to take accountability and adopt proactive measures to safeguard the community.
Andre paints a vivid picture of the chaos that ensues when inadequate resources are allocated to high-traffic areas. He points out the glaring absence of police presence during pivotal moments and the repercussions of such oversights. A former officer with firsthand experience, Andre articulates the frustration and urgency felt by many residents. Through his eyes, we see how a more visible police presence could serve not only as a deterrent but as a welcoming force to visitors, enhancing both safety and community trust.
Andre paints a vivid picture of the chaos that ensues when inadequate resources are allocated to high-traffic areas. He points out the glaring absence of police presence during pivotal moments and the repercussions of such oversights. A former officer with firsthand experience, Andre articulates the frustration and urgency felt by many residents. Through his eyes, we see how a more visible police presence could serve not only as a deterrent but as a welcoming force to visitors, enhancing both safety and community trust.
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Seven thirty right now. If you bive KRC Talk Station Man.
I spent a half hour or more yesterday on this
man's Facebook page. You should follow him on Facebook. Andrea A.
And d Are Andre Ewing for retired Sincet Police officer
thirty years of service to our community. Proud of that
he is and he continues to advocate. He is the
(01:19):
founder of a called Curse Breakers, three hundred strong and
Death Row Ministries. UH Police Peace Officer Deactivation spect Specialist.
Andre Ewing Man, I am so pleased you came in
to talk to us this morning. It's pleasure to have
you in the studio.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Thank you, brother Brian. I appreciate it. I'm so glad
to be here. And I'm on fire. You are on fire, yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
And that's what was so cool about what you were saying,
speaking truth to power, passionate and your reaction to the
violence in the city of Cincinnati, which it sounds, I
mean it's almost as if you knew it was coming,
because you posted a video on the twenty fourth criticizing
the administration. You were at Police Chief threes of Thigi
and you know all about it because you're a please
offer for that period of time, Cheryl Long. You went
(02:03):
after the mayor elected officials demanding a change in administration
because clearly we're on the wrong path. And then one
day later, look what happens in downtown Cincinnati. So you
had a nice follow up to that one. So let
my listeners know where you are on all this Andre.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Absolutely, it's disgusting, disgusting.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Just listening to Chief Thiji's interview yesterday, it was absolutely ridiculous.
We are a nationwide joke right now in Cincinnati, the
issues of talking about you only had two officers respond
that was dispatched. That was in the central Business section,
and she even said, over one hundred thousand people and
(02:44):
you're dispatching cars to a scene where there's so many
people and vehicles. But here, here we have around the
country where people are getting ran over. Why wasn't those
streets just completely blocked off that there were there are
no vehicle traffic number one so the officers can get there,
and there was no officers on foot in the area.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Absolutely unacceptable.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
It took us six minutes to get there, which you know,
in terms of response time, I don't know if that's
good or bad, but you're talking about a downtown Cincinnati
that's got three major events going on, and people don't
just pack up and go home at eleven PM when
the rock when the music stops, they head over the
door district and go into the bars. And so they're
going to be into the bars until the bars are
gonna close. So you have obviously a lot of people
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that are going to be pouring into that neighborhood. You
would expect it to be police all over, and that's
what you were advocating for on your on your Facebook posts.
How come there were police on the on the corners
of the street in an area where you knew, damn
Weather's going to be a whole bunch of people.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
My point exactly, why didn't you have police on every corner,
saturated to tell people welcome to Cincinnati, wave at people.
But no, why because administration did not allocate the proper
units downtown to deactivate things like this.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Or just to prevent them from happening by their mere presence. Absolutely, yeah,
and that you know the police presidence is so critical.
Now respond to this, and I'm not really playing devil's
advocate because I'm in full agreement with your perception at
what should have gone down. But her response Police Chief
three Figi's response might be, well, we're understaffed. They only
had three officers at that moment in time, at three
(04:28):
o'clock in the morning that were even available to respond.
That's a pretty sizable area. And of course with all
those people there, clearly three officers ain't gonna cut it exactly.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
So if you know you're gonna be understaffed prior to
then wouldn't you make the proper adjustments beforehand? We knew
a year out this event is coming to town, and
you see the things that are curring. But yet you
did not plan effectively and had no type of strategy.
(05:00):
So that should tell you once again leadership matters, and
in this case, leadership failed.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And what do you have?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Total chaos in the city of Cincinnati. I told them
before you must want got them city. And I've always
said on my post, who's next?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Who's next?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
There?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
But for the grace of God, go anybody that goes downtown.
And I know you had some really pointed comments and
warnings to my white friends out in the listening audience
about what they should prepare for and maybe shouldn't even
bother going downtown because I think that's your choice as well.
He said, major events like that, you're not going to
get anywhere near them.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Absolutely not, absolutely not. We see what's going on even
locally and abroad nationwide, and if the police are not
setting things up for us to feel safe and secure,
and I walk into a situation and I see angry people,
I see situations happening, and I just want to come
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out of an establishment and just walk down the street,
and I may have an altercation and the next thing
you know, me and my friends may get completely beat down.
And the narrative of being twisted, which is very interesting
that I've seen. If this was an entire all white
mob on a black person, it would be considered a
(06:22):
hate crime from the get go, from the get go.
But even Chief Fiji set there and said, this fight,
this fight, We do know who it is. Turn yourself in, no,
put these individuals on blast, name them by name, Let
the people in the community know this behavior is unacceptable.
(06:43):
So if it was actually disgusting to her, why are
you requesting they turn themselves in versus putting their picture
on TV and saying this is who it is, and
we're coming to get you.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
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Nine come up with seven forty fikivebout KERCD Talk Station
Brian Thomas with the outstanding, outspoken Andrea Ewing. Follow him
on Facebook, check out his videos. He pulls literally no
punchings at all. Andre. You know, I apologize I didn't
get a chance to see her most recent post, but
caption all in caps. This makes me sick. City leaders
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calling in the Lincoln Ware Show saying the white man
got the action he deserved. Now, I had heard that
that some people said that this was totally justifiable. And
I don't know what led to the ultimate melee and
beat down of these people, but I can't come up
with a single action that could justify that mob behavior.
How could anybody suggest that that man or the woman
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who got punched square in the face deserved what they got.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Exactly, There is no justification, period, zero justification. And when
you look at that and the comments that were called
in into the lincoln Ware Show, when you can read
the comments and people saying, yeah, that's what he get.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
You bring the action, you get the action.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
And we had literally leaders like David Whitehead, the leader
of the NAACP call in, and it seemed as if
he was being motivated by the comments that were constantly
going against Smitherman.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Collin Smitherman a coon, a sellout.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
And I'm sitting there watching and I'm listening and I'm reading.
I said, this is disgusting that we have blocks that
are saying this is what you get. So that's why
I also stated, no wonder our young people are following suit,
because if our own leaders are saying this is how
(09:41):
you handle business, then don't say absolutely nothing to our children.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
You know, that's a really, really good point. And Christopher's
been on that theme for a long time. It's where
are our city leaders advocating to support the police, to
support non violent to you know, engage in a positive
relationship with the police for the betterment of the communities.
And I've heard time and time again the vast majority
(10:08):
of blacks, if you talk to them individually, they want
safe streets. They don't have a problem with the police.
In fact, as illustrated by over the weekend, there aren't
enough around. We need more. But the loud voice gets
the attention, the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and sadly,
you know, the squeaky Wills. Perhaps the president current president
of the NAACP's part of the problem. I don't know,
(10:30):
but they're the ones that people tend to listen to.
And that sounds like what representatives of the black community
are advocating for. And yeah, that's gonna rub off on children.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Absolutely, absolutely think about this. Sheryl Long literally remove District
five to get completely out of a community. But yet
the mayor and the chief stand by and say safety
is our number one priority.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
And we see that ar Herringer.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
She blew the rooftop off of a lot of issues
that the city was portraying and tested her own numbers
against theirs. And so if it's your top priority, and
now all of a sudden you're saying, oh, we need
more police, but you took a police district out of
a community.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Make it make sense, brother, Brian, please.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I can't, ye know.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
The only thing I can come up with, Andie is
they are so afraid of acknowledging that there's a crime
problem because it's bad press. It's gonna maybe make people considered.
I don't want to move to Cincinnati, but you, I mean,
you can't deny your I mean it's like don't believe
you're lying. Eyes. People who live in the city know
there's a problem. I mean, the police know the problem,
(11:46):
and the ignoring the problem, and I think it's really
probably driven by just the fact that we just don't
want to acknowledge it, to talk about it because it
just looks bad. Well, welcome to front page news across
the United States of America with what happened on Saturday morning.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Absolutely one thousand percent. And police officers are frustrated. Oh yeah,
they are extremely frustrated because I know for a fact
that they do go out here and do their job
and deal with a lot of issues, and they deactivate
as much as they can.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
They really do.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
But I've been an advocate to always say I'm not
here to take sides. I'm here to save lives, and
if my fellow officers are doing something they shouldn't be doing,
I've always wanted to be an advocate to say, look,
this is what's right, and this is what's wrong.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
But when I see it wrong, and I see.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
A community constantly going against itself, murders on the ride,
black on black crimes, and these same civil leaders have
nothing to say, absolutely nothing. That's disgusting because we both
know that the multiple murders that occur are with on
our black youth and the murders in Cincinnati, and no
(13:00):
one is taking accountability.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
We'll bring back Andre for one more segment Andre Ewing
before we get to the bright Bart Insights scoop after
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Speaker 3 (14:14):
Seven seven here fifty by PARASEV talk Station Mariyantown was
with Andre Ewing, retired police officer. And you're you're like
a community activist.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
You speak to the youth groups, and.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
You know, I guess I'm just kind of curious what
you're doing in your your your in the time you're
not here at my studio talking to my listeners.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Just did something with the Urban League.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
It was powerful, Oh yeah, the Urban Champions, and just
had a great encounter with some young youth and trying
to promote and show them there's a different way to
go about situations. And it's interesting everything that we told
them to do. What they saw downtown was exactly the example.
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We said, this is what happens if you run to
a fight, if you go to a fight, if you
present yourself and has speakers there telling them to turn
the other way and to make sure that everyone is safe, everyone,
not just some.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Well, I appreciate your speaking to the young people. They
certainly need a clear and convincing voice like yours.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Um.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
But speaking of change, and I said to you off air,
I said, you know what, Andre, You and I both
know it. Come November, the residents of the city of
Cincinnati have an opportunity to vote. And you know, the
definition of stupidity is doing the same thing over and
over again and expecting a different result. But they're still
going to vote for the same clowns in office. And
you had advocated for a change in administration on your
(15:39):
onet of your recent videos. What's your take on the
upcoming election in November? And do you think this is
an opportunity for change in the city of Cincinnati.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
It's a perfect opportunity for change. It's interesting because if
this was a professional team and they went oh for twelve,
what do you do we want to.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Go oh and twelve again?
Speaker 5 (15:59):
We talk about the Bengals, if they would have had
the proper defense in place, guess what might be talking about?
Super Bowl champs with the offense that they had, but
guess what they decided to get more power, impactful people
on defense. So let's deal with the truth of the matter.
We are in a position to make change. I would
(16:21):
love to see the debate. Let them go at it
one on one. Debate this thing go right at the
situation and let's see who exactly would be best for
the position of mayor. Because at this point, what we
have seen and if you want this to continue at
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this state, we are going to be in a world
of mess. And it's exactly what we see and it
should start from the top down. And I've said it before,
Teresa Thiji needs to go just just go out. There's
so many powerful candidates out there, so many powerful candidates
(17:02):
out there. She needs to resign, leave at this moment
and allow us to go out and see if there
are other individuals more qualified, more experienced and understand city
dynamics and are willing to work with everyone.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Well this police chief, Thesi, and I don't presume it,
but I presume that you do regularly speak with members
of law enforcement who are still actively with the police department.
I mean you got friends, right, you hear you talk
to them, how's it is there a sense that they
have any respect for leadership within the department?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Zero leadership and that's a shame.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
And I had this on one of my posts is
where Sheryl Long was going into several police districts with
actually Scottie Johnson and ask the police officers who would
you like to see a chief? And at the time
the majority had sat back and said, well, Lisa Davis,
(18:03):
Colonel Lisa Davis, So would we think she would be
a great advocate. She's a community person, she understands And
guess what, she still picked Teresa Thiji. Now that's interesting
because people did not officers did not want her in
the morale and what you see and people being motivated
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started from the top down and what Ryl Long decided
to do without listening to officers and the proper way
to select the chief of our city. And from these results,
you are seeing us getting blasted by individuals on podcasts
across the country talking about our city and how terrible
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it is.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
So low morale. And then I'm sure we of course
know about the low morale within the police department because
of the criminal justice system generally speaking, why bother arresting
the kid for breaking curfew when there is going to
be nothing at all, zero done.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
To them, absolutely zero, nothing will happen. Usually if we
even take someone to twenty twenty a juvenile, we're calling
their parents on the way, make sure you come get
your child.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
As soon as they come in. They're walking straight out.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
And these kids understand the system that they can take
it to the whole next level and then say, well,
when I turn eighteen, I'll just get my record expongs.
Absolutely ridiculous. Gun laws need to be increased, that we're
not playing if you get caught with a gun, we're
not playing games with you. We're gonna hold you accountable.
(19:37):
You will do some time, You will do some time.
So these judges need to step it up and stop
playing games.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah, that's always very puzzling to me, because you know,
if after Purvo had his way, he would take away
everyone's guns. And that's not your position, because you had
advocated on one of your posts that we should be armed.
You know, you know, go to the rain train, learn
how to properly use it. You know, you know, if
you as long as you're lawfully able to carry a firearm,
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you probably should because that way you can defend yourself.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
And that's just the society we live in today. But
now what is the perception of defending yourself? That's why
I said, when you were downtown in this circumstance, and
if somebody had a firearm and started to just let off,
we would have at least twenty to twenty five people
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dead and more critically injured based on this situation while
people were armed, and I bet you there were people
that were armed that maybe just didn't pull their weapon
at the time. But during that beat down, would someone
had been justified to pull in and try to save
the gentleman who was getting mobbed against, who was getting
(20:53):
attacked and kicked brutally and savagely. He could be a
damage for life, brain damage he was, and a woman
savagely was struck. So if somebody would have put out
a gun and start a firing, would they have been wrong?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
No, they wouldn't you know what I'm thinking of the
guy who saved maybe multiple lives at that walmart up
was it Milwaukee? The guy that was stabbing, he stabbed
eleven people and long comes a marine with a firearm.
They didn't put the guy down but stopped the violence
from happening. If you have reasonable and eminent apprehension of
grievous bodily harm that guy was suffering from grievous bodily
(21:30):
harm at the time, or you have a legitimate, reasonable
fear for your own life, you were allowed to use
deadly force. So and I talked with the FOP president
just the other day about that. He agreed with me completely.
Absolutely use of a firearm or to those circumstances would
have been justified.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
When people are freaked out, they think some left wing
prosecutor is going to go after them for defending their
lives or defending the lives of others. So there creates
that reluctance in society because they think they're going to
be the ones prosecuted, not the person given the beatdown.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Now, this is interesting. I want to ask you some brother, Brian.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
When there's a UFC cage fight, they have a ref
right there in the middle. Once this ref sees it's
out of control and that person may even remotely lose consciously,
they step in. That's it. It's over. You don't continue
to go because why they understand the issues that continue
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to happen well, guess what. There was no referee down here,
and we continue to see beat down another's hid in
the face, another kicking a face, another jab in a faith.
It was consistent with beyond almost aggravated assault, and they
should be prosecuted to the highest level.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Under a ewing.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
You know what, someday I want to be interviewing you
as candidate for office. You run for council or maybe
run for mayor or something like that. I think you
get a lot of votes.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Man, Yes sir, yes, sir, what you.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Consider that You got to gleam in your eye. You
have been considering it.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
It's not too late, yes, sir, it's not too late.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yes, sir, you always have an opportunity here on the
fifty five Caro Same Morning Show. I love your message,
I love your passion. I know you care about the city,
you care about our youth, and you know there's a
better direction, the better path. Maybe we'll all wake up
in the city and find that path in November.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Yes, sir, thank you so much. Man, man, it's been fun,
it's been awesome.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
You come back again.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Promise all about the truth.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
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Today we've got a heat the advisory and effect it
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with mostly clear skies still muggy, muggy and hot. Tomorrow
ninety two with one hundred plus heat index overnight sixty
eight and a reprieve on Thursday, it'll be mostly faty.
It's only gone up to eighty two. Right now, it's
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seventy five, and it's time for a traffic update. Chuck
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five Chuck Kingram on fifty five KRC the talk station.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Seven thirty right now. If you bive KRC Talk Station Man.
I spent a half hour or more yesterday on this
man's Facebook page. You should follow him on Facebook. Andrea A.
And d Are Andre Ewing for retired Sincet Police officer
thirty years of service to our community. Proud of that
he is and he continues to advocate. He is the
(01:19):
founder of a called Curse Breakers, three hundred strong and
Death Row Ministries. UH Police Peace Officer Deactivation spect Specialist.
Andre Ewing Man, I am so pleased you came in
to talk to us this morning. It's pleasure to have
you in the studio.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Thank you, brother Brian. I appreciate it. I'm so glad
to be here. And I'm on fire. You are on fire, yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
And that's what was so cool about what you were saying,
speaking truth to power, passionate and your reaction to the
violence in the city of Cincinnati, which it sounds, I
mean it's almost as if you knew it was coming,
because you posted a video on the twenty fourth criticizing
the administration. You were at Police Chief threes of Thigi
and you know all about it because you're a please
offer for that period of time, Cheryl Long. You went
(02:03):
after the mayor elected officials demanding a change in administration
because clearly we're on the wrong path. And then one
day later, look what happens in downtown Cincinnati. So you
had a nice follow up to that one. So let
my listeners know where you are on all this Andre.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Absolutely, it's disgusting, disgusting.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Just listening to Chief Thiji's interview yesterday, it was absolutely ridiculous.
We are a nationwide joke right now in Cincinnati, the
issues of talking about you only had two officers respond
that was dispatched. That was in the central Business section,
and she even said, over one hundred thousand people and
(02:44):
you're dispatching cars to a scene where there's so many
people and vehicles. But here, here we have around the
country where people are getting ran over. Why wasn't those
streets just completely blocked off that there were there are
no vehicle traffic number one so the officers can get there,
and there was no officers on foot in the area.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Absolutely unacceptable.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
It took us six minutes to get there, which you know,
in terms of response time, I don't know if that's
good or bad, but you're talking about a downtown Cincinnati
that's got three major events going on, and people don't
just pack up and go home at eleven PM when
the rock when the music stops, they head over the
door district and go into the bars. And so they're
going to be into the bars until the bars are
gonna close. So you have obviously a lot of people
(03:32):
that are going to be pouring into that neighborhood. You
would expect it to be police all over, and that's
what you were advocating for on your on your Facebook posts.
How come there were police on the on the corners
of the street in an area where you knew, damn
Weather's going to be a whole bunch of people.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
My point exactly, why didn't you have police on every corner,
saturated to tell people welcome to Cincinnati, wave at people.
But no, why because administration did not allocate the proper
units downtown to deactivate things like this.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Or just to prevent them from happening by their mere presence. Absolutely, yeah,
and that you know the police presidence is so critical.
Now respond to this, and I'm not really playing devil's
advocate because I'm in full agreement with your perception at
what should have gone down. But her response Police Chief
three Figi's response might be, well, we're understaffed. They only
had three officers at that moment in time, at three
(04:28):
o'clock in the morning that were even available to respond.
That's a pretty sizable area. And of course with all
those people there, clearly three officers ain't gonna cut it exactly.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
So if you know you're gonna be understaffed prior to
then wouldn't you make the proper adjustments beforehand? We knew
a year out this event is coming to town, and
you see the things that are curring. But yet you
did not plan effectively and had no type of strategy.
(05:00):
So that should tell you once again leadership matters, and
in this case, leadership failed.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And what do you have?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Total chaos in the city of Cincinnati. I told them
before you must want got them city. And I've always
said on my post, who's next?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Who's next?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
There?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
But for the grace of God, go anybody that goes downtown.
And I know you had some really pointed comments and
warnings to my white friends out in the listening audience
about what they should prepare for and maybe shouldn't even
bother going downtown because I think that's your choice as well.
He said, major events like that, you're not going to
get anywhere near them.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Absolutely not, absolutely not. We see what's going on even
locally and abroad nationwide, and if the police are not
setting things up for us to feel safe and secure,
and I walk into a situation and I see angry people,
I see situations happening, and I just want to come
(06:00):
out of an establishment and just walk down the street,
and I may have an altercation and the next thing
you know, me and my friends may get completely beat down.
And the narrative of being twisted, which is very interesting
that I've seen. If this was an entire all white
mob on a black person, it would be considered a
(06:22):
hate crime from the get go, from the get go.
But even Chief Fiji set there and said, this fight,
this fight, We do know who it is. Turn yourself in, no,
put these individuals on blast, name them by name, Let
the people in the community know this behavior is unacceptable.
(06:43):
So if it was actually disgusting to her, why are
you requesting they turn themselves in versus putting their picture
on TV and saying this is who it is, and
we're coming to get you.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
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Nine come up with seven forty fikivebout KERCD Talk Station
Brian Thomas with the outstanding, outspoken Andrea Ewing. Follow him
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punchings at all. Andre. You know, I apologize I didn't
get a chance to see her most recent post, but
caption all in caps. This makes me sick. City leaders
(08:20):
calling in the Lincoln Ware Show saying the white man
got the action he deserved. Now, I had heard that
that some people said that this was totally justifiable. And
I don't know what led to the ultimate melee and
beat down of these people, but I can't come up
with a single action that could justify that mob behavior.
How could anybody suggest that that man or the woman
(08:42):
who got punched square in the face deserved what they got.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Exactly, There is no justification, period, zero justification. And when
you look at that and the comments that were called
in into the lincoln Ware Show, when you can read
the comments and people saying, yeah, that's what he get.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
You bring the action, you get the action.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
And we had literally leaders like David Whitehead, the leader
of the NAACP call in, and it seemed as if
he was being motivated by the comments that were constantly
going against Smitherman.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Collin Smitherman a coon, a sellout.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
And I'm sitting there watching and I'm listening and I'm reading.
I said, this is disgusting that we have blocks that
are saying this is what you get. So that's why
I also stated, no wonder our young people are following suit,
because if our own leaders are saying this is how
(09:41):
you handle business, then don't say absolutely nothing to our children.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
You know, that's a really, really good point. And Christopher's
been on that theme for a long time. It's where
are our city leaders advocating to support the police, to
support non violent to you know, engage in a positive
relationship with the police for the betterment of the communities.
And I've heard time and time again the vast majority
(10:08):
of blacks, if you talk to them individually, they want
safe streets. They don't have a problem with the police.
In fact, as illustrated by over the weekend, there aren't
enough around. We need more. But the loud voice gets
the attention, the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and sadly,
you know, the squeaky Wills. Perhaps the president current president
of the NAACP's part of the problem. I don't know,
(10:30):
but they're the ones that people tend to listen to.
And that sounds like what representatives of the black community
are advocating for. And yeah, that's gonna rub off on children.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Absolutely, absolutely think about this. Sheryl Long literally remove District
five to get completely out of a community. But yet
the mayor and the chief stand by and say safety
is our number one priority.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
And we see that ar Herringer.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
She blew the rooftop off of a lot of issues
that the city was portraying and tested her own numbers
against theirs. And so if it's your top priority, and
now all of a sudden you're saying, oh, we need
more police, but you took a police district out of
a community.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Make it make sense, brother, Brian, please.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I can't, ye know.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
The only thing I can come up with, Andie is
they are so afraid of acknowledging that there's a crime
problem because it's bad press. It's gonna maybe make people considered.
I don't want to move to Cincinnati, but you, I mean,
you can't deny your I mean it's like don't believe
you're lying. Eyes. People who live in the city know
there's a problem. I mean, the police know the problem,
(11:46):
and the ignoring the problem, and I think it's really
probably driven by just the fact that we just don't
want to acknowledge it, to talk about it because it
just looks bad. Well, welcome to front page news across
the United States of America with what happened on Saturday morning.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Absolutely one thousand percent. And police officers are frustrated. Oh yeah,
they are extremely frustrated because I know for a fact
that they do go out here and do their job
and deal with a lot of issues, and they deactivate
as much as they can.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
They really do.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
But I've been an advocate to always say I'm not
here to take sides. I'm here to save lives, and
if my fellow officers are doing something they shouldn't be doing,
I've always wanted to be an advocate to say, look,
this is what's right, and this is what's wrong.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
But when I see it wrong, and I see.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
A community constantly going against itself, murders on the ride,
black on black crimes, and these same civil leaders have
nothing to say, absolutely nothing. That's disgusting because we both
know that the multiple murders that occur are with on
our black youth and the murders in Cincinnati, and no
(13:00):
one is taking accountability.
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before we get to the bright Bart Insights scoop after
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Speaker 3 (14:14):
Seven seven here fifty by PARASEV talk Station Mariyantown was
with Andre Ewing, retired police officer. And you're you're like
a community activist.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
You speak to the youth groups, and.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
You know, I guess I'm just kind of curious what
you're doing in your your your in the time you're
not here at my studio talking to my listeners.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Just did something with the Urban League.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
It was powerful, Oh yeah, the Urban Champions, and just
had a great encounter with some young youth and trying
to promote and show them there's a different way to
go about situations. And it's interesting everything that we told
them to do. What they saw downtown was exactly the example.
(14:56):
We said, this is what happens if you run to
a fight, if you go to a fight, if you
present yourself and has speakers there telling them to turn
the other way and to make sure that everyone is safe, everyone,
not just some.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Well, I appreciate your speaking to the young people. They
certainly need a clear and convincing voice like yours.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Um.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
But speaking of change, and I said to you off air,
I said, you know what, Andre, You and I both
know it. Come November, the residents of the city of
Cincinnati have an opportunity to vote. And you know, the
definition of stupidity is doing the same thing over and
over again and expecting a different result. But they're still
going to vote for the same clowns in office. And
you had advocated for a change in administration on your
(15:39):
onet of your recent videos. What's your take on the
upcoming election in November? And do you think this is
an opportunity for change in the city of Cincinnati.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
It's a perfect opportunity for change. It's interesting because if
this was a professional team and they went oh for twelve,
what do you do we want to.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Go oh and twelve again?
Speaker 5 (15:59):
We talk about the Bengals, if they would have had
the proper defense in place, guess what might be talking about?
Super Bowl champs with the offense that they had, but
guess what they decided to get more power, impactful people
on defense. So let's deal with the truth of the matter.
We are in a position to make change. I would
(16:21):
love to see the debate. Let them go at it
one on one. Debate this thing go right at the
situation and let's see who exactly would be best for
the position of mayor. Because at this point, what we
have seen and if you want this to continue at
(16:42):
this state, we are going to be in a world
of mess. And it's exactly what we see and it
should start from the top down. And I've said it before,
Teresa Thiji needs to go just just go out. There's
so many powerful candidates out there, so many powerful candidates
(17:02):
out there. She needs to resign, leave at this moment
and allow us to go out and see if there
are other individuals more qualified, more experienced and understand city
dynamics and are willing to work with everyone.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Well this police chief, Thesi, and I don't presume it,
but I presume that you do regularly speak with members
of law enforcement who are still actively with the police department.
I mean you got friends, right, you hear you talk
to them, how's it is there a sense that they
have any respect for leadership within the department?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Zero leadership and that's a shame.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
And I had this on one of my posts is
where Sheryl Long was going into several police districts with
actually Scottie Johnson and ask the police officers who would
you like to see a chief? And at the time
the majority had sat back and said, well, Lisa Davis,
(18:03):
Colonel Lisa Davis, So would we think she would be
a great advocate. She's a community person, she understands And
guess what, she still picked Teresa Thiji. Now that's interesting
because people did not officers did not want her in
the morale and what you see and people being motivated
(18:25):
started from the top down and what Ryl Long decided
to do without listening to officers and the proper way
to select the chief of our city. And from these results,
you are seeing us getting blasted by individuals on podcasts
across the country talking about our city and how terrible
(18:47):
it is.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
So low morale. And then I'm sure we of course
know about the low morale within the police department because
of the criminal justice system generally speaking, why bother arresting
the kid for breaking curfew when there is going to
be nothing at all, zero done.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
To them, absolutely zero, nothing will happen. Usually if we
even take someone to twenty twenty a juvenile, we're calling
their parents on the way, make sure you come get
your child.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
As soon as they come in. They're walking straight out.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
And these kids understand the system that they can take
it to the whole next level and then say, well,
when I turn eighteen, I'll just get my record expongs.
Absolutely ridiculous. Gun laws need to be increased, that we're
not playing if you get caught with a gun, we're
not playing games with you. We're gonna hold you accountable.
(19:37):
You will do some time, You will do some time.
So these judges need to step it up and stop
playing games.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah, that's always very puzzling to me, because you know,
if after Purvo had his way, he would take away
everyone's guns. And that's not your position, because you had
advocated on one of your posts that we should be armed.
You know, you know, go to the rain train, learn
how to properly use it. You know, you know, if
you as long as you're lawfully able to carry a firearm,
(20:06):
you probably should because that way you can defend yourself.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
And that's just the society we live in today. But
now what is the perception of defending yourself? That's why
I said, when you were downtown in this circumstance, and
if somebody had a firearm and started to just let off,
we would have at least twenty to twenty five people
(20:31):
dead and more critically injured based on this situation while
people were armed, and I bet you there were people
that were armed that maybe just didn't pull their weapon
at the time. But during that beat down, would someone
had been justified to pull in and try to save
the gentleman who was getting mobbed against, who was getting
(20:53):
attacked and kicked brutally and savagely. He could be a
damage for life, brain damage he was, and a woman
savagely was struck. So if somebody would have put out
a gun and start a firing, would they have been wrong?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
No, they wouldn't you know what I'm thinking of the
guy who saved maybe multiple lives at that walmart up
was it Milwaukee? The guy that was stabbing, he stabbed
eleven people and long comes a marine with a firearm.
They didn't put the guy down but stopped the violence
from happening. If you have reasonable and eminent apprehension of
grievous bodily harm that guy was suffering from grievous bodily
(21:30):
harm at the time, or you have a legitimate, reasonable
fear for your own life, you were allowed to use
deadly force. So and I talked with the FOP president
just the other day about that. He agreed with me completely.
Absolutely use of a firearm or to those circumstances would
have been justified.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
When people are freaked out, they think some left wing
prosecutor is going to go after them for defending their
lives or defending the lives of others. So there creates
that reluctance in society because they think they're going to
be the ones prosecuted, not the person given the beatdown.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Now, this is interesting. I want to ask you some brother, Brian.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
When there's a UFC cage fight, they have a ref
right there in the middle. Once this ref sees it's
out of control and that person may even remotely lose consciously,
they step in. That's it. It's over. You don't continue
to go because why they understand the issues that continue
(22:25):
to happen well, guess what. There was no referee down here,
and we continue to see beat down another's hid in
the face, another kicking a face, another jab in a faith.
It was consistent with beyond almost aggravated assault, and they
should be prosecuted to the highest level.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Under a ewing.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
You know what, someday I want to be interviewing you
as candidate for office. You run for council or maybe
run for mayor or something like that. I think you
get a lot of votes.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Man, Yes sir, yes, sir, what you.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Consider that You got to gleam in your eye. You
have been considering it.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
It's not too late, yes, sir, it's not too late.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yes, sir, you always have an opportunity here on the
fifty five Caro Same Morning Show. I love your message,
I love your passion. I know you care about the city,
you care about our youth, and you know there's a
better direction, the better path. Maybe we'll all wake up
in the city and find that path in November.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Yes, sir, thank you so much. Man, man, it's been fun,
it's been awesome.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
You come back again.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Promise all about the truth.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
It is seven fifty six right now, fifty five kr
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bright bart News tech editor Colin Maydine, and then the
Daniel Davis deep dive at eight thirty. I hope you
can stick around for these.
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