Victoria Parks
Victoria Parks (b. 1958) is an Afro-American politician of the Democratic Party, racist, race hustler and former Cincinnati City Councilwoman and President Pro Tem in Ohio.[1]
Life
Parks grew up in the West College Hill neighborhood (Steele Subdivision) and graduated from Aiken High School in 1976. She is noted to have a daughter and grandchildren.
Career
Parks started her term on City Council in January 2022. Before that, she served as County Commissioner Todd Portune’s chief of staff from 2016 to 2019 and was appointed to fill his spot on the Commission after his retirement. Portune died from cancer on 25 January 2020. Parks also led efforts by Ohio Democrats to exclude Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential election ballot in her state, saying he 'helped coordinate a violent attack on the United States Capitol building, hoping to overturn the results of a lawful presidential election.' She presented the resolution to the Cincinnati City Council, which rejected her motion on a 7-2 vote.
Parks served as Board President, AMOS Project, past Parish Council at St. Joseph Catholic Church, The Women's Fund Advocacy Committee, past board member of The Archdiocese of Cincinnati Communication Commission, former Association of Fundraising Professionals Scholarship Director and Airport Greeter Committee, World Choir Games.
Controversy
On 26 July 2025, at least seven African-Americans viciously ambush attack on a group of White people, one of which was a woman named Holly who has since garnered national attention, who was seen unconscious at the black attackers continued to hit her. In response to the attacks, Councilwoman Parks responded on social media "They begged for that beat down! I am grateful for the whole story."
It involved some 100 people, and six white victims (five men and one woman) were subjected to “unimaginable physical violence,” Police Chief Teresa Theetge reported. Only one citizen called 911. Seven thugs have been charged as of 14 August 2025, mostly with multiple charges of aggravated riot, felonious assault and assault. Jermaine Matthews, 39, Montianez Merriweather, 34, and Dekyra Vernon, 24, were taken into custody. The most recent suspect arrested is accused of yanking a gold chain off a man on the ground being beaten, putting it in his pocket and then proceeding to film the violence.[2]
Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval condemned her remarks when asked about them on 1 August 2025 at the end of a news conference about the attack. Councilwoman Meeka Owens called Parks out in a lengthy statement saying, “violence of any kind is never the solution.” Ohio State Rep. Phil Plummer, labeled her comments as inflammatory and demanded hate crime charges against the attackers. Parks originally stood by her statement, suggesting the victims provoked the attack, possibly through racial slurs, though she provided no specific evidence.[3]
In response to public calls for her resignation, Parks resigned from one of here current positions with the Hamilton County Veterans Services Commission amid additional calls to resign from the city council of Cincinnati.
- Victoria Parks, a Cincinnati City Councilmember, resigned from the Hamilton County Veterans Services Commission in August 2025 following backlash over a controversial social media comment widely criticized as anti-white. On 27 July 2025, Parks commented on a Facebook video showing a group of blacks violently attacking a white couple in downtown Cincinnati on July 26, stating, “They begged for that beat down! I am grateful for the whole story.” Her remark, which clearly appeared to justify the assault and to condone the violence, was interpreted by critics, including Ohio State Rep. Phil Plummer and the Cincinnati Fraternal Order of Police, as reflecting anti-white bias, especially since she suggested the victims provoked the attack with racial slurs without evidence which has since been debunked. The backlash, amplified by critical commentators, labeled her comment as racist and inflammatory, fueling demands for her resignation from both the commission and city council. Parks resigned from the Veterans Services Commission on 12 August 2025, but remained on the city council, having already decided not to seek re-election. The incident drew national attention, highlighting accusations of Parks’ anti-white racism amid broader racial and political tensions in Cincinnati.
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See also
External links
- Woke Dem lawmaker says victims of Cincinnati mass-brawl DESERVED to be beaten to a pulp, Daily Mail, 30 July 2025
