Soldiers arrested for beating homeless man

Homeless coalition protests vicious beating
By Jennifer Baker


Sensitivity training toward homeless people for the military. Moving all the homeless into available housing.

Those are just some of the proposals that will be outlined in an 11 a.m. press conference Friday at the Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless, 117 E. 12th St.

The development comes after a 52-year-old man was severely beaten April 10 in a homeless encampment in Spring Grove Village.

Cincinnati police say four skinheads – including three active-duty soldiers in the U.S. Army – targeted Johnson because he is homeless. The four men had been out drinking in Northside bars before they went out in search of someone to beat up.

So far, three of the suspects – two soldiers and one resident of Norwood who is not in the military – have been arrested and taken into custody. The fourth, a soldier from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, remains at large.
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