Cincinnati Police Chief Terri Theetge was placed on paid administrative leave after she was sued for anti-white bias.
“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. Our focus remains on maintaining stability within the department and ensuring the highest standards of service to our residents. I have full confidence in Interim Chief Hennie and the department’s command staff to continue their dedicated work at this time,” said City Manager Sheryl Long, WLWT reported.
“Assistant Chief Adam Hennie has been named interim chief,” the outlet reported.
Recall that Theetge previously blamed social media after a violent mob of mostly black males beat a white couple at jazz festival over the summer.
A white couple was brutaIIy beaten at a jazz festival by a black “teen mob” in Cincinnati yesterday.
0 national coverage. pic.twitter.com/IgPnVYwbme
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 27, 2025
Teresa Theetge held a press conference on the beating of the white couple.
Theetge said five people in connection to the mob beating were charged. She also blasted social media posters for their coverage of the mob beatings.
“The post that we’ve seen does not depict the entire incident. That is one version of what occurred,” Theetge said.
“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 said.
“Social media and mainstream media and their commentaries are misrepresentation of the circumstances surrounding any given event,” she added.
WATCH:
WATCH: Cincinnati Police Chief Terri Theetge attacks those who shared the video of the black mob assaulting the white couple.
She claims the footage “distorted” and “misrepresented” what really happened.
Instead of blaming the violent thugs caught on camera, she’s pointing… pic.twitter.com/RXrM0iAJzw
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 29, 2025
Earlier this year Chief Theetge was sued for anti-white discrimination.
“The City and Chief Theetge have actively and systemically undertaken efforts to promote, advance, and make promotion and assignment decisions that are preferable to women and minorities, and to the exclusion of white men, including through hiring, diversity initiatives, outreach programs, promotional processes, and other steps that demonstrate both a systemic practice of discrimination against white males, and that there are background circumstances to support the suspicion that the defendant is that unusual employer who discriminates against the majority,” the lawsuit alleges, according to WXIX.
“Plaintiffs, who are all white males, applied for, and did not receive those positions. Furthermore, as respects the preferential assignments, each of the Plaintiffs were qualified for those positions. And similarly situated persons received those preferential assignments on the basis of race and/or sex. Plaintiffs were treated differently than similarly situated employees of a different race and/or sex,”
