We’ve documented how WorldNetDaily’s Joe Kovacs exploited an incident in Cincinnati for its full race-baiting potential, hyping the narrative that white people were preyed upon by black people and ignoring the fact that the incident was isolated and driven much more by drunkenness than racism. Kovacs kept up this bogus narrative in an Oct. 21 article:
Cincinnati Police Chief Terri Theetge, who was sued for anti-white bias and blamed social media in the wake of a black mob’s horrific beating of whites in the city in July, has now been placed on administrative leave “pending an internal investigation on the effectiveness of her leadership.”
City Manager Sheryl Long told WLWT-TV: “The City continues to face serious public safety challenges that underscore the need for stability at the command level. Therefore, I’ve named Assistant Chief Adam Hennie as Interim Police Chief.”
[…]“DEI Police Chiefs have to go!” exclaimed journalist Nick Sortor.
Notice how Kovacs prominently placed “black mob beatdown of whites” in his headline without any evidence. Indeed, Kovacs seemed angry that Theetge told the truth about what happened in Cincinnati:
Theetge became a lightning rod of controversy after she blamed social media for publicizing the pummeling of the white victims.
“Social media, the posts that we’ve seen, does not depict the entire incident. That is one version of what occurred. At times, social media and mainstream media and their commentaries are misrepresentations of the circumstances surrounding any given event,” Theetge said at the time.
“What that does, that causes us some difficulty in thoroughly investigating the activity and enforcing the law. Because what happens, that social media post and your coverage of it distorts the content of what actually happened and it makes our job more difficult.”
“I think by the irresponsibility with social media is it just shows one side of the equation quite frequently without context, without factual context, and then people run with that and then it grows legs and it becomes something bigger that we then have to try to manage as part of the investigation,” she continued.
“Social media and mainstream media and their commentaries are misrepresentation of the circumstances surrounding any given event.”
Kovacs allowed no direct rebuttal fo Theetge; rather, he made a big deal out of how “four previous members of the Cincinnati Police Department sued Theetge for workplace discrimination against white males on the force.” Kovacs also refused to allow Theetge to respond to right-winger Sortor’s claim that she is a “DEI police chief.”
Kovacs also censored how, a few days later, Theetge’s nephew pointed out how she tried to fix problems with the city’s leadership on crime and related issues but ran into roadblocks.
Kovacs has not written anything on Cincinnati since, which is probably a good thing given how he twists the narrative for race-baiting purposes.