Overview

• A Hamilton County grand jury indicted six individuals on counts of felonious assault, assault and aggravated rioting for their roles in the July 26 mob attack at Fourth and Elm.
• A seventh suspect, identified as Gregory Wright, was arrested Monday on aggravated riot and robbery charges after new footage emerged.
• Community and political leaders including State Rep. Cecil Thomas and Mayor Aftab Pureval have criticized the investigation’s scope and are urging prosecutors to charge the white man seen striking a Black victim.
• The FBI has opened a federal hate-crime review of the incident, which is underpinned by video evidence from police bodycams and local outlet footage.
• The attack has fueled public debate on bystander conduct and spurred petitions led by the Cincinnati Fraternal Order of Police to terminate city consultant Iris Roley over her social-media praise of the violence.