Nazis Get Run Out Of Black Cincinnati Neighborhood After Hanging Swastika Banner Over Highway Overpass
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For the second time in under three months, a group of rabid neo-Nazis have made headlines for staging a demonstration in Ohio. But this time, instead of choosing a city like Columbus, where less than 18% of residents are Black (which didn’t stop them from shouting racial slurs at the relatively few Black faces they saw), the group of wayward Nazis chose to hang their swastika banner over a highway overpass between Lincoln Heights and Evendale, Ohio, home to a historically Black community in Cincinnati, which is nearly 40% Black.
And, well, that was a mistake.
From CNN:
About a dozen neo-Nazis, wearing all black clothing and red face masks the marchers in Columbus also wore, were seen on traffic cameras waving the swastika flags. They had also pinned red swastika banners on the fence of the overpass and a sign reading “America for the White Man,” according to photos shared with CNN.
In footage documented by CNN affiliate WLWT, people can be seen walking up to the demonstrators as police officers stood in between them. Moments within confronting them, the neo-Nazis quickly backed up, jumped into a U-Haul box truck and left the scene.
Law enforcement officials at the scene can also be seen ushering the demonstrators into the U-Haul truck and waving at them to go.
Police became aware of “unannounced protest activity” around 2 p.m. on Friday on Vision Way overlooking Interstate 75, the Evendale Police Department said in a news release. Evendale is about 12 miles north of downtown Cincinnati.
“The protest, while very offensive, was not unlawful,” police said. “The protest was short lived in duration. The protestors left the area on their own. No further action was taken by the Evendale Police Department.”
OK, but did they leave “on their own?” Because what video footage of the event, which took place Friday, seemed to show a bunch of Nazis, some of whom were carrying rifles, tucked tail and ran when they saw a bunch of Black people coming to confront them.
In fact, according to WCPO 9, the group of community members who showed up at the scene grew from around 20 to more than 100, and the Nazis fled so fast they left without their big-ass Nazi banner, which ended up burned to a crisp.
Look, we have seen, on numerous occasions since Donald Trump’s first term that Trump’s MAGA milkshake brings all the white supremacists to the yard — but going into a Black neighborhood with white Nazi nonsense just isn’t smart. Y’all’s president is not going to take your ass-whooping for you. Just saying.
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