About a hundred people attended a meeting on Downtown public safety Tuesday night, organized by the Downtown Residents Council. Even more people stood just outside the meeting room at the Downtown Library, denied entrance because the room had met maximum capacity.

The meeting was announced earlier this month, scheduled in response to a recent uptick in violent crime ; a viral video of a brawl over the weekend likely contributed to the high attendance.

Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge addressed the viral fight, announcing two of the five people charged in the incident are in custody now, and a third is likely to be in custody by Wednesday afternoon.

“It makes me sick to watch it over and over again on national news,” Theetge said. “I do not like Cincinnati being portrayed in a nega

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