JD Vance demands viral street fighters be ‘prosecuted’

Published July 28, 2025 1:38pm ET



Vice President JD Vance condemned fighters captured in a viral video and called on law enforcement to “throw their a**es in prison.”

Vance was in Canton, Ohio, on Monday to visit Metallus’s steel plant in the area. During his remarks, the vice president answered a question from a reporter regarding an apparent fight that broke out in Vance’s hometown of Cincinnati. 

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