Officials in Columbus, Ohio, blasted a parade of masked people who marched down the streets with swastika flags Saturday afternoon.

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.

  • 800XL@lemmy.world
    6·
    4 hours ago

    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.

  • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
    91·
    6 hours ago

    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.

    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      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).

    • wipeout69@lemmy.world
      17·
      5 hours ago

      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.

    • unrigged6112@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Nooooooooo, not the Surströmming attack. Against the geneva convention

      Lol, you made my day brighter with your remark

  • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
    173·
    9 hours ago

    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

          • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
            11·
            6 hours ago

            No they won’t. It’s posturing. Be careful around them, but if they shoot you for throwing paint then there’s going to be a big crackdown on them. They don’t want that. The guns are part of the show (and potentially to defend against other armed attacks).

            • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
              41·
              3 hours ago

              but if they shoot you for throwing paint then there’s going to be a big crackdown on them

              They’re armed because they’re looking to provoke a situation where they can commit murder and call it self defense.

              • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
                2·
                2 hours ago

                They’re marching in the hopes that someone will attack them in a fashion they cannot reasonably flee from? Or does Ohio have stand your ground and we could knock the part about fleeing off?

                • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  1 hour ago

                  They’re marching in the hopes that someone will attack them in a fashion they cannot reasonably flee from?

                  They are marching in the hopes that someone will do anything even slightly untoward that they can interpret as a threat and open fire. They’re confident that they will get a piece of shit judge like Rittenhouse got.

                  Or does Ohio have stand your ground and we could knock the part about fleeing off?

                  Do you suppose that they are legal scholars?

            • Princeali311@lemm.ee
              1·
              5 hours ago

              I’m not saying they will shoot you, just simply pointing out what the point is that op asked about.

    • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
      2·
      6 hours ago

      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. 🙄

  • Mossheart@lemmy.ca
    38·
    14 hours ago

    Masked group Nazis marches through Ohio neighborhood with swastika flags

    FTFY ABC News.

  • wipeout69@lemmy.world
    112·
    5 hours ago

    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.

    • LANIK2000@lemmy.world
      5·
      4 hours ago

      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.

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
    46·
    17 hours ago

    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.

      • Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works
        29·
        15 hours ago

        Because the civil war losers were never held to account, allowing this shit to continue festering underneath the veneer of American society.

          • nomous@lemmy.world
            9·
            9 hours ago

            Traitors should’ve been hanged. Their lands should’ve been confiscated and given to newly freed peoples, 40 acres and a mule and all that. Reconstruction failed in large part because the traitorous, racist losers were allowed to go home and start implementing Jim Crow laws instead of being held accountable.

            That they and their descendants were allowed to live out their days peacefully pretending their cause was somehow noble and honorable and not just chattel slavery is a crime that persists to this day in the systemic racism throughout our government.