Jermaine Matthews, 39, and Montianez Merriweather, 34, were initially charged with aggravated riot and assault after the massive brawl in the streets of Cincinnati, Ohio, went viral this week. Matthews, however, was hit with three more charges on Thursday - two felonious assault and one assault charge.
Reader, yes, they are exactly who you'd imagine them to be....
Outside of court, two relatives of Merriweather told WLWT that the race of the victims had catapulted the case to national attention. 'If it was an African American woman who got knocked out... We wouldn't have been going through all this,' one of the women said.
This might come as a shock to you but assault doesn't have a colour bar, it's still an offense if the victim is black!
Another woman, believed to be Merriweather's mother Clarissa, said her son is an honor roll student with 'a biracial child' as she denied he was racist. 'He's not a racist,' she said. 'It wasn't like they're thugs... these Russians was walking down the street and on the video he said "you wanna mess with these Russians?"'
The prosecution thanks you for those words - maybe you need to look under 'T' in this (if you can read):
'He smacked the first guy... my child is in school, he has five kids, he's on the B honor roll in school.'
In school and had five children. Say no more.
Matthews' attorney Brandon Fox also indicated there were other racial elements at play during the brawl. 'That is the victim that is seen running down the street screaming racial slurs, the n word,' he said, referring to video of the incident.
Words said after the assult do not in any way excuse that act. It doesn't work like that.
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