You might almost say she's damn near a 'has bean'...if you wanted to get your pun on...which, of course, I do.
We first were introduced to Anne Ramsay look-alike (only people adored actress Ms Ramsay), Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge, back at the end of July. What had been, by all accounts, a very successful Jazz Festival weekend was marred by the most horrific videos of black revelers attacking small groups of white festival goers in the city's downtown in the early morning hours and seriously injuring some of them.
'Nothing good happens after midnight' holds true again.
The videos were damn disturbing and hard to watch.
🚨 BREAKING: A suspect in the Cincinnati Mob AssauIt has just been FREED on a measly $400 bond
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) July 29, 2025
Democrat cities are OUT OF CONTROL.
This guy SHOULD NOT be on our streets! pic.twitter.com/l2zOOjfl2t
Above is only one of the incidents, and it turned out the fellow throwing the punches already had multiple felony charges pending. He shouldn't have been out partying to begin with.
Another victim was a young woman who stepped in to try to break the fight up, only to be punched viciously in the face and drop like a stone. She would spend days in the hospital.
Chief Theetge's reaction?
It wasn't so bad. Besides, the fights were all the fault of social media making it look awful, and bars overserving patrons.
Why can't everybody just calm down?
THROWBACK: Here is Cincinnati Police Chief Terri Theetge, who was just placed on administrative leave, viciously attacking those who shared the video of the black mob assault at the Jazz Festival on Holly and others.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 21, 2025
Rather than holding the thugs accountable, she blamed social… pic.twitter.com/EDrUi3xMX8
...“I think by the irresponsibility with social media is it just shows one side of the equation quite frequently without context, without factual context, and then people run with that and then it grows legs and it becomes something bigger that we then have to try to manage as part of the investigation.”
“Social media and mainstream media and their commentaries are misrepresentation of the circumstances surrounding any given event.”
...Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge, the first woman to lead the police department (and a good argument for why she should be the last), spent yesterday not excoriating the roving gang of thugs who felt perfectly within their rights to gleefully gang-stomp folks just out for a late evening event.
It was, the chief insisted, a matter of social media amplifying a situation before she had a chance to get out in front of it and make excuses for the wilding in the wee hours on her streets.
Contrary to the chief's oblivious assertions that it was fine and all overblown for TikTok, the downtown merchants were up to their eyeballs and started rattling cages, demanding change. Enough was enough.
But it sure wasn't for Chief Theetge.
The headline from the Cincinnati Enquirer for Oct 14 read as follows:
Summer violence spike continues with Fountain Square shooting
A shooting at Fountain Square the night of Oct. 13 comes less than a week after another shooting in Downtown and highlights the struggle to bring crime down in Cincinnati's urban core.
Late Monday, two people, age 16 and 19, were injured when gunfire exploded near the restaurants in the city's center.
A 'summer violence spike' would imply the chief and her department hadn't gotten much of a handle on the violence in the downtown in the interim months after the racially motivated attacks.
But, oooh. Chief Theetge was talking so tough the night of the double shooting, it's amazing to me that every criminal for miles didn't hustle themselves downtown to have a good time. It was a female version of the famous POTATUS, 'Don't. Just don't.'
Seriously. You have to listen - it's beyond parody.
LEARN HOW TO BEHAVE, ESPECIALLY IN OUR DOWNTOWN, WHIPPERSNAPPERS
Cincinnati Police Chief Theetge’s message after two shooting victims in Fountain Square on Monday night: “Learn how to behave in our city.”
— Cory Bowman (@corymbowman) October 14, 2025
No. City Hall needs to learn how to manage our city. pic.twitter.com/Jd4a7YXDhv
Someone, at long last, had had enough of the bloviating bag of police puffery, and they have yanked her chain. Since she wouldn't resign gracefully, she's been suspended pending an investigation over the 'effectiveness' of her 'leadership.'
There's a shakeup in the Cincinnati police department.
Chief Teresa Theetge is now on administrative leave. City manager Sheryl Long is the one making the change. Local 12 was first to break the story today at six. Chief Theetge has retained employment attorney Stephen Imm, who was scheduled to hold a news conference Tuesday at 10 a.m. to address the situation
The move follows a series of events that began last week when Long recalled Theetge from a conference in Denver, reportedly to request her resignation. Council Member Jeff Cramdering expressed a desire for clarity.
"We just want to understand why. We want to talk about public safety and how this move is going to make the city feel and be more safe," said Cramdering
Well, that's gonna be a bag of worms there, as word of a lawsuit against Theetge filed by four of her officers back in May surfaced under the spotlight of the racial attacks.
They accused the chief of being racially biased against *checks notes* white males and using a racial quota system.
Well, that certainly could cast a different and unflattering light on her statements during the Jazz Fest attacks.
Embattled Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge was being sued by four high-ranking officers claiming she discriminated against white lieutenants while doling out promotions and assignments using a “race-based quota system.”
The lawsuit, filed in May, resurfaced as Theetge faces scrutiny amid her department’s investigation into the high-profile vicious street beatdown of a defenseless white woman in the Ohio city last weekend.
Capt. Robert Wilson and Lieutenants Patrick Caton, Gerald Hodges and Andrew Mitchell claimed in the suit that the police chief bypassed them for positions they deserved — and instead gave minority and female lieutenants preferential treatment, Newsweek reported.
Maybe the woman is simply incompetent and racist.
Chief Theetge says she's a victim.
The attorney for Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge, who was put on leave pending an investigation, said she's being used as a "political scapegoat" by Mayor Aftab Pureval and City Manager Sheryl Long.
Of course she is. Every DEI hire who faceplants always is.
The downtown business owners don't care what she calls herself. They just want the city to get its frickin' act together, ensuring a safe downtown and some of them have a feeling an election two weeks away had more to do with dumping Theetge than the crime rate.
Which, when you think about it, is a pretty sad reflection on the city.
...Many business owners declined to speak on-camera because they say this issue has become too political.
"The election is 14 days away; it doesn't take a genius to figure out what's going on. All of this makes it glaringly obvious we do need to separate police work and politics in this city if we ever want to see anything change," said Sebastian.
However, they maintain there's still a need for solutions, and getting rid of the chief is not the answer.
"It seems that the police don't have the authority to make the decisions that are needed," said Louis. "So it's not really who is in charge. It's the structure in which the police are operating within the city, and we, as the citizens and business owners, we have no clear direction as to who's in charge and what is being done.
The incumbent mayor is up against a candidate with a higher-than-usual profile, as Corey Bowman is the vice-president's half-brother. That would only get Bowman so far in a normal year in deep-blue Cincinnati, but things are a mess, so who knows.
BREAKING: The Cincinnati Fraternal Order of Police just voted NO CONFIDENCE in the sitting Mayor, Aftab Pureval.
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) October 15, 2025
This is HUGE!@corymbowman is running against him! Let's show him our support! https://t.co/lInRe4L6tw pic.twitter.com/7cJFjZiHi5
This chaos right before the election doesn't make Pureval's miserable tenure look any better.
.@voteSmitherman known fact early 2025 @CincyPD wasn’t allowed to pickup offenders that violate in home incarceration, must still be in place. Gunman in Downtown drive-by shooting was wearing an ankle monitor after weapons charge https://t.co/eyo9iBt1jL via @enquirer.
— Kimberly Tidwell (@Kimberly_Cincy) October 19, 2025
Stranger things have happened.
At least one warped, worthless, woke cog is potentially gone.
Cincinnati has one of the WORST Police Chiefs in the country, now I see this sht.
— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) October 17, 2025
That city is so cooked lol pic.twitter.com/i9KTvceIO6
And you gotta start somewhere.
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