“It’s very clear that what started out as a situation—and this is me just watching the videos—and as I’ve always said in any situation: show me what happened 60 seconds before the viral video began,” Posobiec said. “Show me what happened before. Of course, and I’m always going to have that standard.”
“But what you can see on the videos is very clear,” he continued. “There are women being thrown to the ground and stomped on and beaten, young women, old women. And you hear a mob of people cheering, cheering, applauding, clapping. We don’t have to live like this. We shouldn’t live like this.”
In the aftermath, Posobiec sharply criticized the sluggish response from elected officials and media, saying a functioning society should not require federal intervention to address street-level mob violence.
“In a serious country, it wouldn’t take the federal government getting involved for this situation to be dealt with,” he said. “Mob violence, regardless of if it’s a white mob or a black mob, should always be put down. There’s no question. The only question, apparently, that people have is whether or not anyone cares.”
He also noted the complete absence of early coverage from legacy outlets, attributing the attention entirely to citizen activism.
“You saw over the weekend that it was social media that drove this story to the national forefront,” Posobiec said. “It was not, in fact, local media. It was not, in fact, national media. No, it was social media.”
He added that the Trump-era connection to platforms like X and Truth Social remains vital. “Social media and the special connection that the Trump administration has with social media—Donald Trump himself, of course, being a longtime user of social media. In fact, the platform X, he doesn’t quite use it as much as he used to. He now has Truth Social. Elon Musk drove this over the weekend.”
Posobiec also referenced current Vice President JD Vance’s response to the violence, stating: “JD Vance, who hails from Ohio and is the former senator of Ohio, is now our vice president, and he has spoken out against it as well.”
“Folks, it’s becoming untenable—becoming completely untenable—over and over and over,” he said.
“If two people wanna engage in mutual combat, that’s one thing, all right? We have no idea what started this. But what you’re seeing here is group-on-group violence, where we are members of one racial group—so we are black and you’re white—so we’re gonna wage violence on all of you, all right? This is what happens when civilizations break down. This is what happens when societies break down. This is what happens when the rule of law breaks down.”
"You don’t go back into some sort of primordial stew where everyone’s living in peace and harmony. No, no. What do you get? It’s my tribe versus your tribe. And my tribe has to destroy your tribe. That is human nature. That is human history.”
“Whether you like it or not, there are cave paintings from 50,000 years ago that you can find and [they] depict exactly this—the tribe taking out someone or a group of people that they decide are the other,” he concluded. “So this is what we’ve got: tribe-on-tribe violence on the streets of Cincinnati.”
