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.

    • DogPeePoo@lemm.ee
      322·
      2 年前

      Oh, don’t worry. That was just the new Secretary of Defense and a few of his buddies out having a good time.

    • skyspydude1@lemmy.world
      13·
      2 年前

      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.

        • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 年前

          They were molested. The got in a few fights, pepper sprayed some people and then scuttled off to their U-Haul where the cops arrested them.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          6·
          2 年前

          I am an American (and Jewish) and I have no fucking clue what they’re talking about. It has gotten worse and worse and worse.

          • JovialMicrobial@lemm.eedeleted by creator
            2·
            2 年前

            I hope you are able to stay safe where you are. A lot of New England states prepared for an influx of people needing medical care when roe vs wade was overturned. Some blatantly said they will not cooperate with states like Texas and will not release people’s medical records.

            I’m hoping if things escalate they’ll follow that trend and help people get out. There’s been some states like Vermont and Connecticut that have had a decrease in population over the past 10 years so there’s room for more people should it come to that.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              2·
              2 年前

              I have dual citizenship with the UK, which is where we plan to escape to, but New England is Plan B if I can’t find a job.

              • JovialMicrobial@lemm.eedeleted by creator
                3·
                2 年前

                That’s good to hear! The UK is probably a lot safer than staying stateside. But if you find job prospects better in New England we welcome you!

                The roads are kinda crappy, and we still have some trump supporters, but it’s definitely muted compared to other parts of the country.

  • TimLovesTech@badatbeing.socialEnglish
    671·
    2 年前

    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 …

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        31·
        2 年前

        I won’t believe this story has a happy ending until they’re in prison. Because I have a feeling they’re about to get a huge amount of help from the incoming administration.

        • 418_im_a_teapot@lemmy.world
          0·
          2 年前

          That will depend on whether they face state or federal charges. I’m curious if they will be charged at all if the only thing they did was “protest”.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            0·
            2 年前

            It will depend a lot more on whether or not the fascist dictatorship coming into office in January gives a shit about state charges being out of their legal jurisdiction.

            I’m betting on not.

            • Kalothar@lemmy.ca
              1·
              2 年前

              Yeah, people are basically sticking their heads in the dirt with what’s about to happen in the US.

              Source: I live in Ohio and the apathy is palpable. I’m in a Blue bubble, but I even when I go to some small town you can tell everyone is just too burnout from the freight train of nonstop crazy politics stuff.

              • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                1·
                2 年前

                People really want to believe Trump won’t be a fascist dictator despite coming right out and saying he will be. I know he lies all the time, but that’s a stupid reason not to believe him on this one.

      • ShepherdPie@midwest.social
        18·
        2 年前

        Ah, maybe the police were stopping them to pick up their coworkers from out of the van so that they could start their shift.

  • Mossheart@lemmy.ca
    37·
    2 年前

    Masked group Nazis marches through Ohio neighborhood with swastika flags

    FTFY ABC News.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
    381·
    2 年前

    You only hide your face if you’re proud of something that you’re probably not supposed to be proud of…

        • enbyecho@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          2 年前

          “They always get some number of facists.”

          My observation is that if they didn’t start out that way, they sure end up that way.

          And yes, I resisted the temptation to make a joke about “facists”

          • Dasus@lemmy.world
            22·
            2 年前

            Why are you putting “fascist” in quotes when we’re talking about a march literally displaying Nazi flags?

            Maybe I’m mistaken in thinking Nazis are fascists?

            • enbyecho@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              2 年前

              Why are you putting “fascist” in quotes when we’re talking about a march literally displaying Nazi flags?

              Slow down, you read too fast.

              “facists” vs fascists.

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
    341·
    2 年前

    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
        25·
        2 年前

        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
            12·
            2 年前

            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.

        • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 年前

          Yup.

          We didn’t hold the Confederates to account. We aren’t holding Donald Trump and his Republican enablers who spread lies about our democracy and took part in the fake electors plot to account. We’re too pussy to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done.

          Which is why our democracy won’t last.

          It’s inevitable.

  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
    31·
    2 年前

    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.

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    302·
    2 年前

    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.

    • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      6·
      2 年前

      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?

  • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
    291·
    2 年前

    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
      8·
      2 年前

      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).

      • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
        5·
        2 年前

        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).

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 年前

      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.

    • wipeout69@lemmy.world
      220·
      2 年前

      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.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    2 年前

    Get ready to see a lot more of this.

    This is America now.

    The majority voted for this. We wanted this.

      • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 年前

        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.

        • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 年前

          Yup.

          Democracies only work for average citizens if average citizens inform themselves responsibly and vote responsibly. Americans are AWFUL at that.

          I’m honestly ashamed of our country. Never really felt that before. At least not to this degree.

  • Orbituary@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    2 年前

    “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.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 年前

      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

    • Mirshe@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 年前

      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.