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Vice President JD Vance is condemning protesters that he says followed him Saturday while he was walking with his daughter.
Vance’s post about the protesters comes as several roadways in Walnut Hills, where Vance and his family reside, are shut down. Security checkpoints have also been set up. WCPO has reached out to Vance’s team to learn why he is in the Cincinnati area this weekend. We have not heard back.
Vance posted to X writing, “Today while walking my 3 year old daughter a group of ‘Slava Ukraini’ protesters followed us around and shouted as my daughter grew increasingly anxious and scared.”
“Slava Ukraini” is a Ukrainian national salute that translates to “Glory to Ukraine.”
Instead of ignoring the protesters, Vance said he decided to speak with them “in hopes that I could trade a few minutes of conversation for them leaving my toddler alone,” he wrote.
“It was a mostly respectful conversation, but if you’re chasing a 3-year-old as part of a political protest, you’re a st person,” Vance wrote on X.
Vance’s post about the protesters came as dozens of people, many waving Ukrainian flags, rallied along William Howard Taft Road in Walnut Hills.
Diana Ewald, a Ukraine native who’s lived in Cincinnati for 25 years, told us she’s fighting for democracy.
“My whole family still lives in Ukraine,” she said. “I’m embarrassed as an American Ukrainian to see what’s happening in America and how we’re abandoning our allies.”
Organizers of the protest were also at the location Friday evening, and they plan to return Sunday afternoon as well.
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