Kenton County dismissed felony rioting charges for 11 people who participated in a July 17 protest on the Roebling Bridge. The remaining four still facing those charges were involved in a controversial arrest in which an officer punched a protester multiple times.

Prosecutors in Kentucky have dropped felony rioting charges against two journalists arrested at a protest that originated in Cincinnati over the detention of an Egyptian man by immigration authorities

Thirteen people, including two journalists, were arrested during a Cincinnati protest against the detention of Egyptian immigrant and hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman. The demonstrators obstructed a bridge between Cincinnati and Kentucky.