The Toledo Blade reporting on the happenings of today. And, they have a good image gallery of pics from the day’s events.
By the way folks, don’t get hung up on the “pro-Nazi rally erupts into violence,” because that’s not the case. The permitted, pro-Nazi group (which I do not agree with), had already disbanded and left the area when these career criminals decided to take advantage of an opportunity to steal, vandalize, and once again, prove that mob mentality will be excused.
Okay, so I understand they were upset by city officials who granted them the permit to have the rally (which, by the way, had been known about for a couple of weeks), but these same criminal thugs would also want THEIR free-speech rights protected if they so chose to express it (which they did, by the way, but in a criminal manner).
I was incredulous when I saw the video images on Fox News of this throng of thugs throwing bricks & rocks into the windshield of ambulances that were entering the area to help people! Even the local news reporter’s vehicle was attacked by a protestor (~cough~) or protestors, breaking their car/van windows with their fists!!! What the F*** was this all about??? This was a “protest” against the “pro-Nazi” rally? Give me a freaking BREAK!
Criminals will always look for an excuse to do what they do best - break the law, violate other peoples’ civil rights, and profit by their own thuggery & savagery. By the way, if they’re so proud of their message, why do these common criminal always hide their faces?
3:30 p.m E.S.T. - According to Fox News, a planned and permitted pro-Nazi Rally that was scheduled for today has been overshadowed by wide-spread looting and vandalism. This has apparently been occurring for the past 1 to 2 hours. The Pro-Nazi group had obtained a permit to have their rally, which was allegedly to protest the black gang violence against whites in the city, and many area blacks became enraged that the city would even allow this to happen.
Folks, we all know we have freedom of speech in this country, so even if we don’t agree with the Pro-Nazi group, they have to right to express their views, and city officials cannot (unless they deem them to be violent) refuse their legally-submitted permit application.
Long after the Pro-Nazi group had left the area which resulted in several arrests of protestors, the looting & rioting continued in surrounding neighborhoods. Fox News has the WJBK (local news affiliate) helicopter video from the area, you can see the criminals (mostly black) senselessly going in and out of a structure, after having kicked down the doors, and taking stuff from the building. This happens over and over, and as Fox News reports, this “criminal activitiy” - not protest.
Then flames started shooting out of the building (now identified as a “bar”). Police several blocks away apparently finally realized that there was a scenario unfolding close by, and descended upon the area. They dispersed the criminal thugs and looters with tear gas, and I saw a few arrests being made.
Okay, here’s the rant…. These “protestors” who were upset at the city officials for allowing this legal rally are NOT protesting the rally itself; they are “protesting” individual civil rights! They’re taking this opportunity to loot, steal, ravage, set ablaze, and generally act like the societal miscreants they are. I know the news is touting that a “Pro-Nazi rally has turned violent,” but that’s not the case. The planned, but not realized, Pro-Nazi rally may have been the reasons the thugs gathered in the first place, but they are NOT an excuse to act like common hoodlums and thieves! Thank God the streets were empty, save for the criminal slime. Only structures were damaged and looted from. Yet still, these structure owners will have to repair their damaged and vandalized property.
Still developing….. 3:45 p.m. E.S.T.
PoliticalTeen has a stillshot, and will probably have the video soon… (posted @ approx. 3:50 pm)
::UPDATE:: 4:15 p.m. E.S.T. - As reported by Fox News, the Mayor of Toledo recently told reporters that these results were EXACTLY what the Pro-Nazi rally expected and intended to have happen when they scheduled their rally. Yes, they’re blaming this activity on the “Nazis.” What?? Does he expect me to step in that pile of cow squeeze? I can see right through his rose-colored glasses for his city because earlier on Fox News, they had a city council member on the phone, and he was saying “oh, no, this is a quiet town, no racial tensions, etc., blah, blah, blah.” Yeah, right… They want to portray this city as a sleepy little hollow, while the rest of the people commenting from the law enforcement side, were rightly calling this area a “racial tinder box.”
This was nothing more than the local criminal element taking advantage of a situation to which they could later assign blame for their actions. And it looks like the Mayor & city council members are going to be their enablers.
You are a Freedom Crusader, also known as a neoconservative. You believe in taking the fight directly to the enemy, whether it’s terrorists abroad or the liberal terrorist appeasers at home who give them aid and comfort.