As I said, the ICE agents who had rocks thrown at them in California, detaining illegal aliens from that pot farm, should have shot them. They had every right to do so. So I was thrilled to see that the Covington, Kentucky police physically bloodied a bunch of stringy-haired protestors as they tried to close the Roebling Suspension Bridge over a protest of Ayman Soliman, the former Cincinnati Children’s Hospital chaplain, detained by ICE on July 9th, 2025. For some ridiculous reason, someone has told these loser socialists that shutting down highways and bridges was a thing they could do to express free speech. It is not. And certainly not in my town. I use that bridge all the time, and it should not be closed down by a bunch of protestors cheering on illegal activity. I have no tolerance for it. We hire law enforcement to enforce laws. And when the protestors dug in and started getting pushy, the Covington Police beat the hell out of those protestors and arrested them like the scrappy losers that they are. It’s one thing to see these things happening in some far away place like California, where their politics has fallen off the edge of the earth with liberalism. It’s quite another to see something like that happen in the heartland city of Cincinnati, not in my town. I want to see our highways, bridges, and sidewalks open at all costs, despite the impediments of protestors. They do not have the right to shut down anything in protest, and it’s about time they are taught a lesson about impeding traffic. When it comes to using violence to maintain law and order, I’m 100% for it. As the videos of this violence at the bridge went viral, I was very proud of the Covington, Kentucky, police department.
The protestors crossed the line when they tried to stop a black SUV driven by an out-of-town tourist, as the insurgents were banging on the hood and vandalizing the vehicle as it attempted to push through the crowd. Police issued warnings and tried to be as kind as possible, but they ended up arresting 15 of the 100 or so protesters at the site, including two CityBeat journalists, Madeline Fening and Lucas Griffith. The charges include felony rioting, unlawful assembly, failure to disperse, obstructing a highway, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest. The Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America claimed that the police “violently broke up” the protest, alleging some of the arrestees were beaten and required medical treatment. An attorney for the miscreants, Benjamin Pugh, argued that the police escalated the situation and did not give sufficient time to disperse. So that is the cast of characters involved, and I have no sympathy for the CityBeat journalists. As I have said about them for many decades, they exist to breed these kinds of losers in our youth culture, so they are as guilty of why those protestors thought they could get away with this kind of thing in the first place, as anybody. There’s plenty of bad to go around, and it’s good that the Covington Police did not allow these individuals to embarrass our city of Greater Cincinnati in front of the nation. The message we want to send to all these socialist and communist sympathizers is zero tolerance for their view of the world. That’s where we are these days, as I have been saying for a long time. These aren’t just Democrats with differing political views. These are people who want to overthrow our society, which is why they are upset at the ICE deportations, because all those illegal immigrants are part of their strategy to destroy our law and order society.
However, here is a statement for attorneys like Mr. Pugh, who involved himself in this case: the public’s right to free egress exceeds the right of one individual to express their free speech. People can say and hold whatever opinion they want about anything. But they don’t have the right to force someone else to have that opinion. And stopping traffic is an expression of a free speech opinion by force. The protesters are saying, ‘Join me in my opinion; otherwise, I’m not going to let you use this bridge or travel down this highway.’ Time is an essential thing, and people in a free society cannot have others impose restrictions on their movement to coerce their opinions politically. The protesters could have written an article, or spoken on YouTube or TikTok about the deportation of the Egyptian Ayman Soliman. However, they did not have the right to block traffic to get attention or put their hands on the car of someone trying to cross the bridge. This Marxist notion of damaging private property to communicate political opinions just isn’t going to fly. We are a private property country. A mob of losers does not get to override every principle of personal freedom that we have in our society, and one of the fundamental rights that we have is the right to egress. The right to move around unimpeded and the freedom to enjoy our lives. That’s why the bridge exists, so that people can travel from one place to another. That’s why the roads exist. A protester does not have the right to take that freedom away from people to force their opinions on an issue, due to having no other option but violence to get their point across.
Once the protestors made a move to close the road, the Convington Police had a right and obligation to remove them and restore that freedom of egress. There is no group sentiment, such as the Ignite Peace Cincy group, that has the right to close down any roads or even make someone walk around them on a sidewalk. Any imposition on the personal freedoms of anybody warrants a violent removal of that impediment. There is no right to Free Speech, which means people who don’t share those opinions have to be inconvenienced by any method. People ultimately have a choice, and if that choice is removed from them, including the option to listen to socialist protestors or not, or to read that socialist social magazine, CityBeat, or not, the frustrated advocates of a political position don’t get to threaten free people and their private property in any way at all. Especially trying to stop them from crossing a bridge and vandalizing their property, as if the group mob decided what was valuable socially, or what was acceptable. And in this case, Ayman Soliman might have been a nice guy who fled persecution in his homeland in 2014 for his work as a freelance journalist covering the Arab Spring. He was granted asylum in 2018, but that was revoked in June of 2025, leading to his arrest by ICE on July 9th. He was a Muslim chaplain at Cincinnati Children’s and a board member at the Clifton Mosque, so a lot is happening with him that aligns with the profile of the Democrat Party and the way they want to shape our country politically. But when people don’t want to hear what they have to say, they don’t get to take away choice from people, so that they do. Any attempt to do that warrants violence against the protestors attempting it. And no compassion for individual circumstances justifies anything done at the Roebling bridge, other than the police shutting it down and arresting with violence the perpetrators. And I would have fully supported much more violence. Because when I want to use that bridge, which happens often, I don’t want stringy-haired hippie socialists blocking the way. Get them off the road, by any means necessary.
Rich Hoffman
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