The War On Cops - Cincinnati Is Ground Zero
Ryan Hinton was an 18-year-old black man living in Cincinnati, Ohio. On May 1, 2025, he and three friends were pulled over by the police in a vehicle the police officers believed was stolen. The four youths took off running. The two police officers who had made the stop pursued on foot.
Seconds later, Hinton appeared from between two dumpsters with a semi-automatic pistol in his hand and pointing it at one of the police officers. He was shot dead.
On May 2, 2025, the police showed Hinton’s parents body cam footage taken by one of the officers, clearly showing their son holding a pistol. The weapon was recovered from the scene.
The father, Rodney Hinton, Jr., was upset. So, later that day, he got in his car and ran over a sheriff’s deputy directing traffic outside a University of Cincinnati graduation event. The officer was killed.
Other members of the Hinton family were in another vehicle following Rodney Hinton, Jr., when he ran over the police officer. It is unclear if they knew what Hinton was going to do in advance.
Rodney Hinton, Jr., is now being charged with murder and may face the death penalty. The Black Panthers and the Democratic Socialists of America have shown up. Rodney Hinton has a long criminal record including grand theft, aggravated robbery, and domestic violence. That is irrelevant. Hinton is, you understand, being oppressed. The answer is not that he should be prosecuted. The answer is that more cops should die.
“They might wanna kill Rodney for avenging his son. We say no, sir!” said Mmoja Ajabu, Executive Director of Pan-African Affairs for the Black Panther Movement, at a rally in support of Rodney Hinton. “You do that, and other things are gonna happen!”
“No justice! No peace!” the crowd at the rally chanted.
“Say his name! Rodney Hinton! And we’re not going to just say his name, we’re going to protect his body.”
Ajabu was surrounded by armed members of the Black Panther Party in full military regalia.
Later that day, Mmoja Ajabu spoke again at a town hall. Hinton was lionized as some sort of revolutionary hero, and the act of running over a deputy was glorified as an act of revolutionary courage.
“Most of us think like this, especially in this room, but how many of us have the courage to carry it out?” Ajabu asked.
“When we start seeing each other as brother and sister, then if it’s your child, it’s mine too.”
“Rodney has shown us, and we’re gonna support him. Now they’re talking about killing him,” Ajabu said.
“That ain’t gonna happen without there being a price. But see, we don’t want to riot. We want to have a military strategy that we bring them to their knees.”
“If you ain’t ready for the killing, then you’re in the wrong place.”
A group of representatives from the Democratic Socialists of America at the University of Cincinnati attended the town hall as well. Someone asked about identifying the officer who shot Ryan Hinton. “We take the position that Rodney took,” Ajabu replied. “Any of them will do.”
There is no ambiguity here. Ajabu is not calling for an inquiry or due process. Ajabu is legitimizing the deliberate murder of a police officer and encouraging others to act as Rodney Hinton did. “Any of them will do.” The objective is to kill police officers. In Ajabu’s terms, a “military strategy”.
The Democratic Party set this monster loose. It made common cause with revolutionary Marxists who want to burn the system down. It encouraged mobs to destroy cities and demonized the police. Trump is in the White House, but the revolutionary forces across the nation remain powerful and fully intent on destroying the existing social, economic, and political order.
This is the United States of America. We give a wide berth to free speech as we should. We need to understand, however, that groups like the Black Panthers and others on the far left have no real interest in talking. They are organizing for overt, violent action.
At some point, we are going to have to recognize that and act accordingly. These guys are already talking about a war on cops. All the rest of us are next.
As a cop and supervisor for nearly 26 years in one the largest and consistently most violent cities in the country and, since then, as a consultant in police related matters throughout this country, I can attest that the war against cops is worse than it has been in the last 50+ years. Further, it is not limited to deadly physical attacks by leftist splinter groups. After the Floyd incident, the political flood gates opened with calls for defunding the police, which was followed by politically inspired prosecutions of police officers for, in some cases, using force techniques that they were trained to use under circumstances they were trained to use them. Just so it’s clear that I’m not an apologist for every thing police do, while most of my work as a consultant is defending officers, I have testified against officers in the few cases where I believed their actions were grievous violations of the law. I used the descriptive term grievous, because the job of being a cop has become so burdened with politically motivated legal minutia that, if an officer is actually aggressively enforcing the law, it has become nearly impossible that all “t’s” can be crossed and all “i’s” dotted. The complexity of those minutia guarantee that some honest mistakes will occur, but, in the case of police officers, they are too often being criminally charged for not adhering to the tiniest letter of the law.
The police officer profession is the only profession so targeted. As an example, consider the profession of being a doctor. A person becomes a doctor by undergoing a dozen or so years of intensive, complicated education. Then, they have to undergo more intensive training and scrutiny by other doctors before they can put the word doctor in front of their names. Do these highly educated, highly trained, intensively scrutinized professionals then carry out their duties without mistakes? A simple inquiry to Google screams no! According to Google, medical errors by those intensively educated and trained professionals are estimated to cause over 250,000 deaths each year, making them the third leading cause of death. Additionally, 1.5 million people are injured annually due to medication errors, and over 100,000 deaths are likely related to improper medications. A similar inquiry as to how many doctors were criminally prosecuted for those errors provided no numbers, but did indicate “relatively few.”
Cops are put on the street after approximately six months of training. Further complicating their ability to do their jobs in the last few years is the aggressive application of DEI standards to their hiring and promotion. Those standards emphasized “equity” over hiring the best and brightest to undertake what has become an impossibly complicated job. When I was doing SWAT stuff, I had a commanding officer whose philosophy was that everyone, regardless of ability or lack thereof, should get “a piece of the pie”; i.e., allowed to operate regardless of their demonstrated ability. Later, in one hostage, barricade situation, he actually had a team that had made an initial entry taken out and sent in a different team to give them “a piece of the pie.” When gas was ordered to be inserted prior to entering the apartment to rescue the young girl hostage, the much less than competent officer that was supposed to put in the CS shotgun ferret rounds had loaded them first, followed by .00 buck. As anyone who is remotely familiar with how a pump shotgun operates should know, the last round loaded is the first round fired. He blew two holes through the apartment’s front door with .00 buck before finally putting in a CS round. Luckily, no one was hurt, that captain’s philosophy was quickly reversed, and his future advancement was, thankfully, nullified.
The point to this story is that lives depend on cops that are capable of doing a sometimes very complex job. Hiring police officers for any criteria other than the ability to do the job puts citizens’ lives at risk. Prosecuting them for making honest mistakes in not adhering to the every newly enacted, politically motivated regulation or law discourages excellent performance, which also puts citizens’ lives at risk.
It always seems to go this way... a young black man pulls a gun on a cop while being pursued, the cop - who's trained to only shoot when needing to defend his life - takes him out in response, but the reaction for Rodney doing so is instantly turned into a racist motivation on the cop's part. Does the cop not have a right to defend his own life in that split second situation? What makes it even worse, the father in his emotional distress, goes out and, in a moment of rage, kills an innocent cop in response by running him over, which gives organizations like the Black Panthers an opportunity to twist the incident and propagandize it even further into a racist matter when it was the poor judgement of an 18 year old being pursued by a cop to pull a gun on the cop! Crazy!