Colin, My name is B. and you asked me to describe our experience in 2001 during the Cincinnati Riots, we were on our way to King Island in Cincinnati OH.
I-75 was backed up for some unknown reason, I decided to get off the nearest exit, which took me to an older neighborhood just outside of the main city, I turned on to the 2 lane street with wide sidewalks on each side, it was a old 1800’s store front district of buildings on each side with apartments above.
When I turned the corner, traffic was starting to back up we were in the middle of the block when, we noticed black people running through the streets attacking cars and white people.
At that moment we noticed a white garbage truck in front of us on the other side of the road, it was jumping the curb onto the sidewalk it was rocking back and forth, we then saw a black man with a huge kitchen knife trying to stab the white driver.
I then decided to take action to save my family and drive up on to the sidewalk while they were trying to attack our vehicle I forced my way out of that nightmare, we were one of the lucky ones, we had one of our sons friends with us at the time.
thanks.