Beaten, Betrayed, and Blamed: Collapse of Justice in Cincinnati

A society reveals its soul in how it protects the innocent. Cincinnati, on the weekend of July 25, showed us that when mobs roam free and the powerful look away, justice collapses into spectacle. In a nation where the rule of law is our covenant, the city’s response to a vicious racialized assault has offered us something chilling: a preview of what happens when political cowardice collides with moral bankruptcy.