An entrepreneur abandoning downtown Cincinnati after a disturbing mass brawl shared with Daily Mail the dire conditions prompting his departure.

Victor Louis, the founder and CEO of One Logistics Network, guided the Mail through a grim tour of the embattled Ohio city on Monday, attributing its downfall to what he describes as Cincinnati’s overly progressive leadership.

The city gained national attention after a mass conflict broke out on the night of July 26, involving a violent attack on both a man and a woman.

Further controversy arose when Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge, currently facing a lawsuit over alleged anti-white racism, chastised journalists for supposedly misrepresenting the viral footage.

However, Louis informed Daily Mail that Cincinnati merits its negative attention, citing last weekend’s altercation as the final straw, prompting his 35 employees to relocate to the serene suburb of Blue Ash.

He commented: ‘Had [the brawl] not occurred, I doubt anyone would trust what has been happening. In a way, it is an isolated event, but it’s the culmination of ongoing issues.’

Cincinnati is home to eight Fortune 500 headquarters – but during rush hour on Monday morning its streets were near-desolate.

And the people that Daily Mail did see paint a clear picture of why Louis and others are so angry. 

Just a few hundred feet from the grandiose and historic City Hall a young woman, around 20-years-old, was seen injecting herself with a syringe.

Next to her, a man’s arm gushed with blood, having also just shot up in Cincinnati’s downtown – with no consequences. The brazen display was not a surprise for Louis. 

‘That’s in broad daylight, right by City Hall. Literally someone can look out their window and see this, and nothing is being done’, he told the Daily Mail.

‘If you can’t fix that, why do you think crime circulates. And that was right in front of us, there is no hiding, that girl was also very young.’

He continued: ‘Nobody is walking the beat, those people are camped out there. That was blatant, and they aren’t even hiding it.’

Other Cincinnati vagrants were seen smoking from glass pipes commonly used to get high on crack cocaine, crystal meth or fentanyl. 

In one particularly jarring moment, a woman sat on a park bench injected herself with a syringe in full view of churchgoers gathering outside their house of worship for a service.  

Louis had issued a letter to local leaders last week after the viral clip of the brawl made headlines, saying he was officially done with the downtown district.

‘It’s been issue after issue’, he added. Louis said his employees no longer feel safe working in the area, adding that: ‘They don’t want to come down to work here here anymore’. 

The most recent sight to sicken Louis was that of a homeless person who yanked down their pants on a sidewalk near his office to defecate. 

Others regularly tote weapons while strutting around streets which were once home to bustling shops, offices, restaurants and bars.  

The 39-year-old added: ‘The city doesn’t control violent crime, and they can’t maintain litter, and they can’t maintain vagrancy. Guess what? Those things just run rampant. And that’s what we are seeing around the city.

‘When you can’t fix these problems like littering and drug abuse, you’re not going to be able to fix violent crime. Why ask people to play chess when they can’t even play checkers?’

Just last week a woman was shot in the neck and leg in the Over the Rhine neighborhood in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Before that, hundreds of youths had swamped a 4th of July celebration and burned a police officer with a firework. 

Louis also mentioned the killing of fellow Cincinnati business owner Patrick Heringer.

He was murdered in his own home in the city in June, while protecting his family from an intruder who stabbed him multiple times.

Mordecia Black, 38, was indicted in his death and other charges including aggravated burglary and felonious assault. 

It later emerged that Black was a convicted felon and had cut his ankle monitor off earlier this year before vanishing from a halfway house. He had managed to evade police for months before allegedly killing Heringer.

In an open letter Louis wrote last week, he added: ‘A consistent decline in the conditions for doing business in the city over the past several years has made our continued presence untenable,’ he wrote. 

‘My employees have concerns about their safety and do not feel valued for their contributions to the city.’

Louis is not alone in his concerns. The Cincinnati Restaurant Industry clubbed together to issue their own statement on the brawl and the spat of other issues facing the area. 

They said: ‘The video circulating from that night is disturbing, and like many in this city, we are calling for accountability and decisive action.

‘Our businesses represent thousands of employees and serve tens of thousands of guests each week. 

‘We’ve invested heavily in this city – not just financially, but with our time, presence and long-term commitment to Cincinnati’s success.

‘But we cannot carry this alone. We need clear, proactive, and correctives measures from our city leadership. This is not a moment for vague promises or delayed responses. 

‘Our community is asking for a real plan, one that addresses this incident and the broader safety concerns that have been raised for months.’

On Friday, Mayor Aftab Pureval said that he would be increasing law enforcement patrols in the city. On Monday the Mail didn’t see any police presence in the downtown area, where open drug abuse was the order of the day. 

Pureval added: ‘There is no place for violent crime in Cincinnati, whether it’s a fight or gun violence.

‘We will pursue those responsible and we will hold them accountable no matter who they are.’

In her first remarks since the assault, Holly, who is still severely bruised, said it has left her with trauma to the brain. 

In an emotional message, she said: ‘I want to say thank you to everyone for all of the love and support. 

‘It’s definitely what’s keeping me going. And you have just brought back faith in humanity.

‘It’s been very, very hard, and I’m still recovering. I still have a very bad brain trauma. God bless you all. Thank you.’

Political commentator Benny Johnson shared the video to his X profile after he organized an online fundraiser for her, which has already raised $168,000. 

According to the page Holly is a single working-class mother and is out of work due to her injuries as well as living in an undisclosed location due to threats on her life. 

The update from Holly comes after a fourth person was arrested in connection with the fight. 

Dominique Kittle, 37, was taken into police custody on Friday night and was charged with felonious assault and aggravated riot, his bond was set at $150,000. 

He appeared in court on Saturday where his lawyer told the judge that suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, according to WLWT. 

Jermaine Matthews, 39, Montianez Merriweather, 34, and Dekyra Vernon, 24, were taken into custody earlier this week after the ordeal, which JD Vance waded in on. 

Matthew and Merriweather were initially charged with aggravated riot and assault over the brawl. 

New footage has also emerged showing the moments leading up to the attack, with one of the men who police said was a victim using racial slurs. 

The video, obtained by The Enquirer, shows the unknown individual say: ‘Get him! Get that little n*****.’

Two black men appeared to try and talk to the man to calm him down before the brawl starts. Matthews’ attorney Brandon Fox released the video.