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http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/15/nazi.march/
TOLEDO, Ohio (CNN) -- A neo-Nazi group's scheduled march against "black crime" in Toledo, Ohio, sparked rioting Saturday afternoon.
The Nazi march was called off, and none of the National Socialist Movement group's 80 members who showed up to participate was arrested, White said.
Hours later, aerial video showed people vandalizing buildings and setting fire to a two-story building that apparently housed a bar, Toledo police spokeswoman Capt. Diana Ruiz-Krause told CNN.
At least 150 officers from various units -- some on horseback, bicycles and in riot gear -- were on the scene. The city's police chief said his officers showed "considerable restraint" after being pelted with rocks and bottles for "considerable hours."
"We could have made a couple hundred arrests," he said.
Ruiz-Krause blamed the mayhem on a disorganized group of the community's youth.
Most of the violence happened when residents, who had pelted the Nazi marchers with bottles and rocks, took out their anger on police, said Brian Jagodzinski, chief news photographer for CNN affiliate WTVG.
Video showed crowds at around 2:25 p.m. using bats to bring down a wooden fence as looters broke into a small grocery store.
Around 3 p.m., crowds of young men pelted the outside of a two-story residence with rocks, smashed out the windows with wooden crates, ran inside and threw out the furniture and lamps from the upper-level windows to the sidewalk below. No police were on the scene.
About 10 minutes later, the building's second story was in flames as a crowd of people watched.
When police arrived, they used pepper spray on counter-demonstrators and shot tear gas containers into the crowd, Jagodzinski said.
He added that his news van and a police car had windows smashed and doors bent back.
I love this story. All of the blame is being heaped on the Nazis, who didn't even march, and the cops because they didn't arrest the Nazis for exercising their rights. No blame is placed on the thugs out looting and setting a house on fire and watching it burn.
I don't recall a lot of white people looting, burning, and throwing stones at cops during the Millions More March.
TOLEDO, Ohio (CNN) -- A neo-Nazi group's scheduled march against "black crime" in Toledo, Ohio, sparked rioting Saturday afternoon.
The Nazi march was called off, and none of the National Socialist Movement group's 80 members who showed up to participate was arrested, White said.
Hours later, aerial video showed people vandalizing buildings and setting fire to a two-story building that apparently housed a bar, Toledo police spokeswoman Capt. Diana Ruiz-Krause told CNN.
At least 150 officers from various units -- some on horseback, bicycles and in riot gear -- were on the scene. The city's police chief said his officers showed "considerable restraint" after being pelted with rocks and bottles for "considerable hours."
"We could have made a couple hundred arrests," he said.
Ruiz-Krause blamed the mayhem on a disorganized group of the community's youth.
Most of the violence happened when residents, who had pelted the Nazi marchers with bottles and rocks, took out their anger on police, said Brian Jagodzinski, chief news photographer for CNN affiliate WTVG.
Video showed crowds at around 2:25 p.m. using bats to bring down a wooden fence as looters broke into a small grocery store.
Around 3 p.m., crowds of young men pelted the outside of a two-story residence with rocks, smashed out the windows with wooden crates, ran inside and threw out the furniture and lamps from the upper-level windows to the sidewalk below. No police were on the scene.
About 10 minutes later, the building's second story was in flames as a crowd of people watched.
When police arrived, they used pepper spray on counter-demonstrators and shot tear gas containers into the crowd, Jagodzinski said.
He added that his news van and a police car had windows smashed and doors bent back.
I love this story. All of the blame is being heaped on the Nazis, who didn't even march, and the cops because they didn't arrest the Nazis for exercising their rights. No blame is placed on the thugs out looting and setting a house on fire and watching it burn.
I don't recall a lot of white people looting, burning, and throwing stones at cops during the Millions More March.
