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Thread ID: 20672 | Posts: 14 | Started: 2005-10-17
2005-10-17 10:39 | User Profile
Emergency Declared After Anti-Nazi Riots
By JOHN SEEWER The Associated Press Sunday, October 16, 2005; 2:45 AM
TOLEDO, Ohio -- A crowd protesting a white supremacists' march Saturday turned violent, throwing baseball-sized rocks at police, vandalizing vehicles and stores, and setting fire to a neighborhood bar, authorities said.
When Mayor Jack Ford and a local minister tried to calm the rioting, they were cursed for allowing the march, and Ford said a masked gang member threatened to shoot him.
At least 65 people were arrested and several police officers were injured before calm was restored about four hours later.
Ford blamed the rioting on gangs taking advantage of a volatile situation. He declared a state of emergency, set an 8 p.m. curfew through the weekend, and asked the Highway Patrol for help.
"It's exactly what they wanted," Ford said of the group that planned the march, which was canceled because of the rioting.
At least two dozen members of the National Socialist Movement, which calls itself "America's Nazi Party," had gathered at a city park to march under police protection. Organizers said they were demonstrating against black gangs they said were harassing white residents.
The violence broke out about one-quarter of a mile away along the planned march route shortly before it was to begin. One group of men pounded on a convenience store, and others overturned vehicles. There was a report of a shooting but police hadn't found a victim, Police Chief Mike Navarre said.
About 150 police officers chased bands of young men through the area. Officers wearing gas masks fired tear gas canisters and flash-bang devices designed to stun suspects, but the groups continued throwing rocks and bottles. Several officers and firefighters suffered minor injuries, Navarre said. At one point, the crowd reached 600 people, officials said.
Finally, police marched shoulder-to-shoulder down the street shouting to people to stay inside, and the crowd of several hundred broke up.
At least 65 people were arrested on charges including assault, vandalism, failure to obey police and failure to disperse, Navarre said. He said the white supremacists had left hours earlier.
"We frankly could have made a couple hundred arrests easily," Navarre said. "We just didn't have the resources on hand to arrest all of them."
The mayor had appealed to residents the night before to ignore the march. He said the city wouldn't give the Nazi group a permit to march in the streets but couldn't stop them from walking on the sidewalks.
When the rioting began, Ford tried to negotiate with those involved, but "they weren't interested in that." He said people in the crowd swore at him and wanted to know why he was protecting the Nazis.
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.
Thomas Frisch, 76, said a large group of men destroyed the exterior of a gas station next to his home of 30 years.
"A whole big gang started to come in here. Next thing you know, they're jumping on the car. Then they overturned it. Then they started on the building, breaking windows, ripping the bars off," he said.
Louis Ratajski, 86, and his nephew, Terry Rybczynski, left Jim & Lou's Bar as a crowd gathered in front pelting police with rocks and breaking the windows. They climbed down a fire escape from the apartment where Ratajski lived over the bar and only later saw the fire on television.
"I was shaking. I feared for my life." Rybczynski said.
Keith White, a black resident, criticized city officials for allowing the march in the first place.
"They let them come here and expect this not to happen?" said White, 29.
A spokesman for the National Socialist Movement blamed police for losing control of the situation
[url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/15/AR2005101500742_2.html[/url]
2005-10-17 12:40 | User Profile
I saw this report on the news yesterday. It was awesome. The Whites came off looking better than the blacks. Lot's of property destroyed. Blacks rampaging insanely. Whites had some good protest signs too.
2005-10-17 13:55 | User Profile
Basically this was just an excuse for a bunch of Afro gangs to compete with the NOLA gangs after Katrina.
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"Originally, it was just crowd control. Then it went out of control," he said. "We just had to scramble" to bring in more police officers to back up the already beefed up presence of 150 officers on hand for the Nazi march.
"It was a mob. Obviously, the unexpected happened," Mr. Ramirez said.
He estimated at least 60 percent of Toledoââ¬â¢s police force was on duty just in the North Toledo area because of the violence, and the Lucas County sheriffââ¬â¢s office also was on hand.
Toledo Police chief Mike Navarre praised his officers, saying they "performed remarkably" and showed a lot of restraint. Before sending in police in force to make arrests at around 3:30 p.m., Mayor Ford and Toledo Fire Department chief Mike Bell approached the mob and attempted to negotiate a compromise. But as they talked, and as the crowd yelled and screamed at them, looters broke into the bar at Central and Mulberry and began taking merchandise.
Mr. Bell eventually began walking back toward a large group of police shaking his head.
"No more negotiating," he said. "Weââ¬â¢re done. They just set a building on fire."
Chief Navarre said there were upwards of several dozen arrests made but he did not have exact numbers. He added that some police officers and fire fighters were injured in the melee but their injuries were not serious.
The chief said police could have arrested hundreds of people who were involved in incidents of looting, burning businesses, and throwing rocks.
2005-10-17 15:53 | User Profile
Niggers need little excusе to riot. Niggers are the emergency. Machine gun them.
2005-10-17 16:03 | User Profile
[QUOTE]"It was a mob. Obviously, the unexpected happened," Mr. Ramirez said.[/QUOTE] Unexpected????? Who does this guy think he's kidding. Sun comes up Sun goes down.
2005-10-18 05:41 | User Profile
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]I have a solution!
Limit the First Amendment to non-whites only. NO more free speech of free expression for whites - [I][B]that[/B][/I] will solve the problem![/SIZE][/FONT]
2005-10-18 15:46 | User Profile
Limit the First Amendment to non-whites only.
Your post suggests hyperbole, but that isn't far off, I fear. On the telly, the police chief of Toledo was asked why the NSM was "allowed" to march and he responded, "Unfortunately, some people [the NSM] have First Amendment rights."
A very telling statement and indicative of where "they" would like to take us, legislationwise.
2005-10-18 18:35 | User Profile
I doubt if these ignorant, violent blacks even know what a Nazi is. Any excuse to do what they do best.
2005-10-18 19:33 | User Profile
[QUOTE=DakotaBlue]I doubt if these ignorant, violent blacks even know what a Nazi is. Any excuse to do what they do best.[/QUOTE]
They were incited to riot by the fascistic A.R.A. domestic terrorists.
[url]http://www.antiracistaction.us/pn/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=23&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0[/url]
2005-10-18 20:48 | User Profile
Blacks have always been good pickins for the commies. The reasons are clear. After 100 years they still can't rise despite Maya Angelou's pretentious, oblique prose.
2005-10-21 02:50 | User Profile
I wish I lived in a diversified neighborhood such as that. Isn't it wonderful how all of the colors of the rainbow coexist?? :bash:
2005-10-21 04:40 | User Profile
I comment on this merely since I read a report on it.
The concept of ââ¬Ëfreedomââ¬â¢ is an intellectual error.
There exists no such thing as freedom.
Show me a ââ¬Ëfreeââ¬â¢ man or woman and I will see an Angel or representation of it. And it is the human animal that forever seeks the notion to be ââ¬Ëfreeââ¬â¢.
It is a nonsense.
For the cage is not only circumstance but also in the mind. But we must be savage in maintaining what little space we have left at this time.
And it is good to strive for what is needed. It breeds the strong. To suffer hardship - makes you strong. To be pampered - makes you weak.
And it is the stronger that takes the land - and it is the weak that weep over it.
Mentzer
2005-10-21 05:21 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Texas Dissident]They were incited to riot by the fascistic A.R.A. domestic terrorists.
[url]http://www.antiracistaction.us/pn/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=23&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0[/url][/QUOTE]
You will note the term racist and Nazi is employed in combination.
It is schoolchild politics and of no interest. They know nothing of it. They fear it like a parent-induced Halloween Ghost, in order to put fear into their ââ¬Ëlittle onesââ¬â¢.
However, if we think of it rightly - it is superior to confront liberal ignorance and indulgence with correct instruction and proper knowledge.
For they fear, more than anything, their intellectual weakness, lack of ability and disturbed dreams.
And their practiced verbal dexterity means nothing. It is their only means of defending that which means nothing.
Mentzer
2005-10-21 14:21 | User Profile
[quote=Mentzer]I comment on this merely since I read a report on it.
The concept of ââ¬Ëfreedomââ¬â¢ is an intellectual error.
There exists no such thing as freedom.
Mentzer There exists no such thing as freedom [I]without responsibility[/I]. The media's marketing of "freedom" likes to overlook that bit.