Sunday, October 16, 2005

White Supremacists Riot in Toledo, Ohio (phillyBurbs.com) | National

"Residents protest on Stickney Avenue as they encounter National Socialist Movement members in Toledo, Ohio October 15, 2005. At least two dozen people were arrested on Saturday after a planned march by white supremacists in Toledo prompted a crowd to pelt police with rocks and bottles and set a fire, city officials said. Members of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement had been scheduled to march under police protection through north Toledo, with anti-Nazi groups set to counter-protest. But police canceled the event and told the neo-Nazi group to leave as tensions rose and violence erupted nearby, the Toledo Blade reported. MANDATORY CREDIT NO SALES NO MAGAZINES NO ARCHIVES REUTERS/The Blade/Allan Detrich"

"Members of the National Socialist Movement gesture to protesters (not pictured) from the grounds of Woodward High School in Toledo, Ohio October 15, 2005. At least two dozen people were arrested on Saturday after a planned march by white supremacists in Toledo prompted a crowd to pelt police with rocks and bottles and set a fire, city officials said. REUTERS/The Blade/Allan Detrich"




Is it possible that the community, which includes men, women, teens and children, was protesting the the white supremacist group that came to their community? How did Mayor Ford and others differentiate gang members from concerned citizens? Young, Black, brown? Is that the criteria? Wake up people... Wait for future versions of the this story.

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White Supremacists Riot in Toledo, Ohio (phillyBurbs.com) | National: "They were mostly 'gang members who had real or imagined grievances and took it as an opportunity to speak in their own way,' Ford said.

'I was chagrined that there were obvious mothers and children in the crowd with them,' he said."
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