Masked group marches through Ohio neighborhood with swastika flags
Masked group marches through Ohio neighborhood with swastika flags
Summary
Masked neo-Nazis marched through Columbus, Ohio’s Short North neighborhood on Saturday, displaying swastika flags and making racist and antisemitic statements.
Police are investigating, and no arrests have been reported.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Columbus officials condemned the display, emphasizing that hate and bigotry have no place in the state.
The incident follows a similar demonstration in Michigan last week, where masked protesters displayed Nazi flags outside a performance of The Diary of Anne Frank.
The only correct response to this is delivered at muzzle velocity.
Get ready to see a lot more of this.
This is America now.
The majority voted for this. We wanted this.
3 of these guys marching down the street: a joke.
3,000 of these guys marching down the street: a nightmare.
Don't lump me into the collective "we".
Everyone shares some level of accountability, and I know nobody wants to hear it and will stomp and huff and gnash their teeth at the notion, but it's true. Some carry a much larger chunk of that responsibility than others, from of course the people who didn't care and didn't vote, and the people who cared and still didn't vote, to just the people who rolled their eyes every time someone posted a "political" picture in /r/funny and had to start a 300+ comment deep thread about how stupid politics is, down to the small pieces held by everyone who did everything right but never valued their community, didn't make a stand against people saying and doing things we didn't agree with, and lets not forget everyone who never involved themselves in their local elections even enough to vote for the people who represent them, they allowed many to go unchallenged and those people went on to prop up a government run by and representing a minority ideology.
We're part of it. It's our country and the majority decided to take America down this path.
We are "we" because we are part of this society.
I didn't vote for it. I know, very clearly, what direction we're headed in. Anyone that didn't just float through their history classes with barely passing grades should know. But I still accept that I'm part of it. WE are a very stupid society.
WE CALL THEM NAZIS ABC
Screw tolerance some things need to be eradicated. I wish death in the most heinous way on these scum.
Punch Nazis in the Face Again.
The sack of shit Government of Putin and their neo-Nazi supporters. Every single WW II veteran rolled in their grave.
How did you manage to mix Putin into this one?
Who did you think is bolstering and growing the fascists in Europe and America through propaganda campaigns?
In 2016, the GOP switched from the Grand Old Party to the Government of Putin.
Russia is a nazi state.
Don't worry, it won't be long and they will not need to mask anymore.
I hate Ohio Nazis.
Ohio Nazis aren't real Nazis.
If they don't come from the 1944 Germany region, they are sparkling fascists.
Indeed, we need the 1974 Dodge Monaco..."It's got a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas."
the only thing sadder than this is that they managed to survive to the end of their little walk and go home.
In a just society they would have been napalmed and/or turned to ground mince by a large truck.
Do a march on the same route an hour after they finish and say "We are better than them and don't hate you" do it un masked and see how many people join you.
It would be a shame if Nazis got massacred and noone saw what happened.
Charge them with hate speech.
"Hate speech" isn't a criminal statute anywhere in America.
Maybe it should be
No, but there's the "fighting words" doctrine. Depending on the level of targeting of the hate speech, it may not he protected. Let's use Mike Pence as an example because it was a whole thing 4 years ago.
Saying "Hang Mike Pence" to the air is probably protected. Whereas going to Mike Pence and saying "I'm going to hang you" isn't.
The weird greyness is that telling someone to hang Mike Pence can also be a crime (e.g. conspiracy to commit murder or disturbing the peace), so the details and context matter.
Basically, if it's a threat with teeth, it may not be protected. Being offensive is legal. Inciting a riot or threatening or provoking someone into attacking first is not.
For anyone curious.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_in_the_United_States
Oh hell no. Place 2x4s in a place they'll accidentally walk into them. Like your hands at their eye level with a runneng start.
Trump will pardon them, so there's gonna be a fuckton more of this shit over the next four years. Likely progressively worse as we go.
Yup.
Things aren't getting better in America anytime soon. Even if the "pendulum swings". Pendulum doesn't matter in a society full of fools and racists. There is no magical reset button every 4-8 years for mistakes of the magnitude we just made as a society.
Buckle up.
Did he pardon anyone who participated in Jan 6?
Not yet but he will. They will form his loyal brown shirts which he will turn into the SS.
Also those court cases had not finished by the time Biden took office so he couldn't have if he wanted to anyway.
He ran on doing so.
He will.
He doesn't have to worry about pissing people off now. It's his 2nd term.
"Party of law and order".
I've read he plans to upon retaking office.
Pardon them for what? Unless their possessing firearms wasn't in line with the law, or that "physical altercation" mentioned that questioning apparently went nowhere reemerges as a thing then I don't know what they'd need pardoned for based on the article.
The marching with Nazi shit and spewing whatever hateful bullshit is protected speech, because speech protections in the US are extremely broad.
And that's before getting into whether or not the hypothetical crime is federal (which he could hypothetically pardon) or state (which he can't).
Yeah, I was in a rush when writing that, and should have been more thorough in explaining what I meant.
I meant that's their mentality: these idiots will become increasingly emboldened as Trump takes over, and make the assumption that they can do anything they want because Trump & the Republicans have taken over the Justice system and will allow them to do whatever they want to the "evil libs." There will be no hate crimes prosecuted (unless against white and/or prominent right-wingers) - at least not on a federal level, but these idiots often don't really understand that difference (and TBF there effectively may not BE a difference in red states).
Unless they violated a federal crime and are convicted of it, Trump can't do shit.
I think it's incorrect to link all the January 6th protestors with actual Neo-Nazis and that sort of hyperbole was part of the reason Democrats were out of touch with how regular people felt. Neo-Nazis are partly increasing because of the memification of racism, giving racism a more viral quality, combined with how fast society is changing and people incorrectly making sense of it through racism.
No one mentioned Jan 6 until you did.
Tbh why are these neo-nazis soo cringe tho.
You mean it doesn't make them look badass to be carrying intentionally edgelord versions of a swastika flag while wearing matching skull balaclavas in front of the shake shack?
No
Police are investigating, and no arrests have been reported.
Throw paint on them. Follow them to their car. Take a picture of their license plate. Its easier to follow them after you dump a pail of paint on them
And then? These are the good old boys, probably christians too. That's what they voted for.
DOX them
Sure, because there was no warning of this crap display of cowardice (masks), & everyone just happens to carry cans of paint around to do such a thing. 🙄
Can of Surströmming, pull tab, throw.
But then everyone will think you're a nazi. Because you'll smell like all those masked nazis you doused.
Nooooooooo, not the Surströmming attack. Against the geneva convention
Lol, you made my day brighter with your remark
Masked groupNazis marches through Ohio neighborhood with swastika flagsFTFY ABC News.
Why the fuck is the photo censored?
algorithms
hate and bigotry is literally the only thing republicans agree on
I've seen more hate, violence, and bigotry from the left over the last year...
You mean the left also tried to overthrow the government through violence?
Haha, no you haven't you fucking dork.
Imagine having a brain so wasted and misused as to actually believe this.
It's disrespectful to the forces of nature to treat your brain like this after so many millions of years of evolution.
Get yourself some help.
Hallucinogenics are a hell of a drug...or did you just notsee what the entire GOP has become?
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People calling you a nazi when you're acting like a nazi doesn't count.
Oh pretty please indulge us with your tall tales of all the violence you've seen from the left since Nov of 2023.
sure you have, sweetie
The hate and bigotry: people being upset at being intentionally misgendered.
Prove it.
I will never again wonder how a group like the KKK was able to form, thrive, and persist for so long, inside the USA.
So glad I don't live there. I'm worried about you all.
Good luck.
We've always been a racist nation. The Civil War just shut them up in public for a while.
I'm worried about us too. What the ever-loving fuck, man.
I live here and do not understand how it is allowed to happen.
Let me guess: there were good people on both sides in that masked group.
the masked group is just one of the sides
people who hate Jews voted for a guy who took all restrictions off of Israel
inhale
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Yeah. They don't really mind Israel killing non-white people and also concentrating Jewish people under a single state https://youtu.be/N3Taq2bekjQ
Israel isn’t representative of Jewish people. It uses jewish people as a shield from criticism. Israel is a pro-US colonialist project before it’s jewish. This is like saying that people hate leftists but they voted for the national socialist german worker’s party
It isn't colonialist. It is a place we can force-project our military from in a valuable and very anti-west part of the world. If our military didn't need it, we wouldn't even be near the place.
These ding-a-lings have been supporting Israel (cynically) for a long time. First of all, they hate Muslims even more as a general rule, and for their silly fantasy that involves Yeshua flying back on a cloud, they think the Jews need to occupy Israel. This is why we have xtian zionists.
It always makes me laugh. These people are pro Israel for its government, which is right wing, but they hate Jewish people lol. That's why you have the MGTs of the world talking about Jewish space lasers and Jews run Hollywood and Jews run the media.
Trump loves the poorly educated.
they could be zionist antisemites
Israel is not Jewish. This is antisemitic
Most Jews are not israeli and israel is not representative of Judaism, but israel does claim Judaism as a core part of its "national" identity, so there's nothing antisemitic about pointing out the irony of Nazis supporting israel. The irony may be pretty superficial tho, some of the other replies here point out several reasons why Nazism and Zionism/israel are actually aligned.
I mean why wouldn't they? Americans told them to be Nazi and proud this election after all.
I'm more shocked that they wear masks. They hate masks and they have no reason to hide their faces.
They know that they're being bad. That's why they're wearing them.
Exactly!
Devine and other R politicians have no shame pandering for their votes, dog-whistles and all.
I mean hell, not even dog whistles this time. Trump and his allies were loudly shouting Nazi slogans publicly and there was no pushback.
This will be normalized within the next 4 years.
Considering how passive the title is here I think maybe they're normalized now.
The fact this is literally the 2nd story this week of Nazi shitheads openly waving their flags around is a good indicator it's not going to take nearly that long.
When the masks come off, that’s when it’s really bad.
Oh, don’t worry. That was just the new Secretary of Defense and a few of his buddies out blowing off some steam and having a good time.
No. No it won’t. They want to sensationalize this. Don’t buy into it.
You paid pretty much zero attention I'm school, huh?
"They" being the majority of Americans who looked at this as said "yeah, sure".
Masks are for hiding from responsibility, not for acting responsibly. Acting responsibly is the way of the enemy.
Same people, I bet.
I wonder what the amount of Trump gear vs Nazi flags was. It's also very ironic how when Nazi's march in the streets without a permit the cops just block off the street with their cars and perform crowd control to "help protect the city" (the Nazis). And when people of color march without a permit because cops killed another person over something stupid they get met with riot gear, tear gas, and rubber bullets.
It's going to get so much worse before it gets better ...
If it gets better...
Outside of us causing a nuclear war, it will eventually get better. Every empire eventually falls, it's just a question of, do we take Mother Earth with us?
Remember that cops have no duty to protect. They protect who they like. They protect what they are.
To be fair they were severely understaffed for exactly the duration of the march for some mysterious reason.
Yep, racists are going to be racist.
They appear to have been arrested, traveling in a U-haul.
Interesting. The article ends by saying there were no arrests.
Ah, maybe the police were stopping them to pick up their coworkers from out of the van so that they could start their shift.
So the story gets a happy ending... and I'm guessing so will his cellmate.
It legitimately looks like the cop on the left is giving that guy tips for next time.
They're just preparing for the inauguration.
Police are investigating...sure I bet a few officers were in the march. Yes because Trump going allow nazi the only right to free speech. When fhe protest begin Trump will send in the troops to put them down.
"We will not tolerate hate in Ohio," Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said in a statement on the social media platform X on Saturday evening.
Talking from both sides of your ballot box, are we, Mike? Fucking moron. You support the hate candidate and you get a hate populace.
Considering this was happening before the election was declared as well, I'm willing to take the stance that Ohio is just a magnet for trash Nazis.
Don’t worry, he’ll get pushback on that statement and then declare Ohio the fifth reich. He always takes the right stance first then manages to flip flop to worse than he was asked to
Back in Normandy and Carentan Americans used to call that target practice, make America great again please.
Nazis feel emboldened to march in multiple cities this year:
https://www.wgal.com/article/neo-nazi-march-harrisburg-pennsylvania-peace-rally/61971282
Nazis have been marching in Columbus for two years. This was just the first time they attacked people
This is America.
Fucking assholes
I miss the days when it was acceptable to beat the shit out of Nazis. Can we bring that back?
If you see someone punch a nazi, no you didn't. That nazi fell.
Under what laws was it acceptable to beat people until shit comes out of them? It sounds like you just want an excuse to become violent whenever you feel justified.
There's no such thing as a peaceful Nazi.
Over half the planet was in agreement about fucking up Nazis at one point
Appeasement is a terrible idea when we're talking about Nazis, it has never worked and will never work. I don't get why people are so ignorant about history. I guess you're not part of a minority that would get brutalized or murdered under their rule? Otherwise you probably wouldn't attempt to play nice with literal Nazis.
It's really irritating to watch this shit unfold as a German. You guys are basically begging fascists to take over at this point.
They're Nazis.
The laws of engagement in WW2? I remember they were apparently building concentration camps and rounding up and murdering the Jews, the gays, the gypsies, the anarchists, the communists, the Slavs, the mentally disabled, allied prisoners of war etc etc. I think right about then the law was ok with fucking-up Nazis… but I’m not an historian so best to double check this comment.
You're going to be really disappointed if anyone ever tells you it's raining cats and dogs.
Nazis bad :)
You will never get the answer. Not here on Lemmy or Reddit. These are keyboard badasses.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Columbus officials condemned the display, emphasizing that hate and bigotry have no place in the state.
Oh, but they do, as is evidenced by hateful bigots marching through the streets of your state capital.
It's like that time my old high school had a school shooting and some elected official was all like "no one could have predicted this" and I was like "my brother in Christ, I went to that high school. If no one predicted a mass shooter event then why the fuck weren't we allowed long coats or backpacks? Why the metal detectors? Was it all for shits and giggles?"
Anyways, elected officials lie and it's very upsetting to people that expect literal truth. Maybe it's comforting to some?
What a bunch of losers, waiting until the generation is dead that would beat them to a pulp in the streets with their Hurry Canes and walkers.
It should be legal to just round up a bunch of people and beat the absolute piss out of these guys. Just a savage beating to within an inch of their lives, as a warning to anybody who thinks this shit is okay or cool.
Hell, why not take a car and just plow through it? Those fuckers are flagbearing an ideology that developed mass murder on an industrial scale. Let them feel a tiny bit of that on themselves.
My sister and I are in Columbus for a concert and we were in a store right across the street from this happening. Shook us up pretty good. I have never seen something like that before.
What did you do to stop it?
Nothing. I was a little busy calming my sister down who basically broke down crying in the middle of the store. And even if she was calm, I would have stayed in the store where it was safe. Those men weren’t exactly there to make friends.
What answer were you hoping to hear?
They harassed a local business, got confronted by the patrons there, and pepper sprayed them. Then, they got arrested for it.
Hey they voted for hate and bigotry at the federal level
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
This is what I love about these guys .... they know full well that this is wrong, this is unacceptable and that the majority of people don't support them .... which is why they wear a mask to hide themselves. They are brazen enough to step out in public to display what they want but they are cowardly enough to not want to be identified.
deploy the caltrops
Deploy the horses with diarrhea brigade
Deploy the cops who hit you with a bicycle
Didn’t fucking arrest them. They pepper sprayed people.
Also the short north is a traditional gayborhood.
It's horrible and racist but at least there is free speech. It's too bad we can't have free speech without this sort of thing. Perhaps one day people will become kinder and less racist. It scares me but the alternative of no free speech scares me more.
Paradox of tolerance
... that said I think there's a huge difference between suggesting that this kind of thing be made illegal, and criticizing people with power and influence (including politicians) for actively encouraging it and benefiting from it
I mean this is less of a free speech issue and more of a lack of information and education issue coupled with foreign disinformation campaigns. And specifically for America, also a societal isolation issue. Americans outside downtown rarely get any human contact and it shows, as trust between neighbors deteriorates. This sort of stuff is far less prevalent in countries that put more value in education and building communities.
Do you realise that other developed countries have free speech too but no nazis on the street? We might no have in our brainwash hymn how free and brave we are, but we are.
Oh, just put your mask on and get back out there, numbnuts
Is it legal to "citizens arrest" a Neo Nazi on sight?
No. Dump a bucket of paint on them so they're easier to identity