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For the second time in underneath three months, a gaggle of rabid neo-Nazis have made headlines for staging an indication in Ohio. However this time, as an alternative of selecting a metropolis like Columbus, the place lower than 18% of residents are Black (which didn’t cease them from shouting racial slurs on the comparatively few Black faces they noticed), the group of wayward Nazis selected to hold their swastika banner over a freeway overpass between Lincoln Heights and Evendale, Ohio, residence to a traditionally Black group in Cincinnati, which is sort of 40% Black.
And, effectively, that was a mistake.
From CNN:
A couple of dozen neo-Nazis, sporting all black clothes and pink face masks the marchers in Columbus additionally wore, have been seen on visitors cameras waving the swastika flags. They’d additionally pinned pink swastika banners on the fence of the overpass and an indication studying “America for the White Man,” in accordance with photographs shared with CNN.
In footage documented by CNN affiliate WLWT, individuals might be seen strolling as much as the demonstrators as cops stood in between them. Moments inside confronting them, the neo-Nazis shortly backed up, jumped right into a U-Haul field truck and left the scene.
Regulation enforcement officers on the scene will also be seen ushering the demonstrators into the U-Haul truck and waving at them to go.
Police turned conscious of “unannounced protest exercise” round 2 p.m. on Friday on Imaginative and prescient Approach overlooking Interstate 75, the Evendale Police Division stated in a information launch. Evendale is about 12 miles north of downtown Cincinnati.
“The protest, whereas very offensive, was not illegal,” police stated. “The protest was brief lived in period. The protestors left the realm on their very own. No additional motion was taken by the Evendale Police Division.”
OK, however did they go away “on their very own?” As a result of what video footage of the occasion, which came about Friday, appeared to indicate a bunch of Nazis, a few of whom have been carrying rifles, tucked tail and ran once they noticed a bunch of Black individuals coming to confront them.
In reality, in accordance with WCPO 9, the group of group members who confirmed up on the scene grew from round 20 to greater than 100, and the Nazis fled so quick they left with out their big-ass Nazi banner, which ended up burned to a crisp.
Look, now we have seen, on quite a few events since Donald Trump’s first time period that Trump’s MAGA milkshake brings all of the white supremacists to the yard — however going right into a Black neighborhood with white Nazi nonsense simply isn’t sensible. Y’all’s president will not be going to take your ass-whooping for you. Simply saying.
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