For the most part, the Taste of Cincinnati had few problems, but the crowds did bring trouble makers to parts of the city near the festival. In these cases, mobs of black teenagers attacked white people.
The first reported attack was near a bus stop. The aftermath of the attack was captured on video by a metro bus. Jon Deters, son of the Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters. He was helping his girlfriend get her car out of a parking lot when a group of 12-20 black teens attacked him, hitting him, knocking him to the ground and kicking him before running away.
In another attack, David Manz was walking to a bus stop to go to his night job at a Dunkin Donuts when he saw a group of about 20 black teenage girls run towards him. They laughed as they began hitting and kicking him before running away. Manz suffered bruises, scrapes and several broken ribs. He had to be placed on a breathing machine for a short time to help prevent pneumonia from setting in.
