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Questions of "bias in the investigation" of the downtown Cincinnati brawl were raised on Monday at a meeting of African American leaders and community members.

That question was from an Ohio state representative, who was among about 150 people gathered at a church in Roselawn to voice their demands for equal justice to Cincinnati Police leadership, who were conspicuously not present.

Questions of "bias in the investigation" of the downtown Cincinnati brawl were raised on Monday at a meeting of African American leaders and community members. (Leohna Alia La JCannon via Facebook, WKRC)

“The Black community of this city demands to be respected,” said State Rep. Cecil Thomas (D), Cincinnati.

Lesley Jones, a pastor with Truth & Destiny Covenant Ministries Fellowship, followed with saying, "We demand the arrest of all individuals involved.”

Leaders of Cincinnati's African American community were directing demands at the Cincinnati Police Department, who, to this point, have only arrested and charged the Black people allegedly involved in July's downtown melee, not any of the white people who were involved.

“A riot doesn't happen till after the slap,” said Pastor Damon Lynch from New Prospect Baptist Church. “So, what incited, and who incited the riot? If the riot is because of the slap, who incited the riot? And why are the only people charged, again, I'll say it, are the ones who look like me?”

The slap to which Pastor Lynch referred was shown at the meeting.

“He re-engages,” said Lynch. “He walks back into the ring and slaps, not the guy that he was just squaring up with, but actually slaps the guy he had earlier squared up with. And I'm asking myself, how many Black men did you think you were going to whoop that night?”

Present at the meeting were Cecil Thomas and Cincinnati Councilman Scotty Johnson, both former CPD investigators.

Local 12 asked them what could be taking so long to decide on prosecution.

“I don't know,” said Scotty Johnson, (D) Cincinnati City Council. “Because honestly, we've solved homicides in two weeks. So, I don't know. That's a great question. That's a question for the police department. As a former investigator, between us two right here [referring also to Thomas], you’re talking 30 years of investigations, specifically with the city of Cincinnati. I don't know.”

“The method by which this situation has been handled raises serious questions as to whether there's bias involved in the investigation," said Thomas.

One person mentioned at the meeting that even the woman named "Holly," who was infamously knocked unconscious in the incident, is seen pushing a Black man right before she gets decked by another Black man.

The seven people who have been arrested so far are all African American, and most were still in jail awaiting trial. [MORE]