Zero man non-march sets off rioting, looting and arsony in Toledo, Ohio
A bunch of Nazis didn’t march in Toldeo, Ohio, so hundreds of the city’s black residents attacked police, broke into stores, overturned vehicles and set fires. Some also attacked a white resident who has been complaining about gang actitivty in the neighborhood, but were chased away when he opened fire with a handgun.
Here’s an article about the riot:
Unable to kick a side door of the bar open, one rioter had used a gun to shoot the lock open. The stairway inside led to the upstairs apartment. Rioters started throwing furniture and appliances and book shelves from the apartment’s windows before setting it on fire.
They chanted and waved their hands outside as the blaze roared through the upstairs apartment.
“This is stupid,” said O’Shai Crenshaw, 27, who lives on St. John Avenue. “Why burn this building? That building isn’t [owned by] the police or the Nazis. This doesn’t make any sense.”
Here’s an article about the white man I mentioned above:
The senior Mr. Szych was standing in the front yard of his Bronson Avenue home telling a friend he should have trusted his gut instincts and gotten out of the neighborhood when he had the chance. That’s what his son had done.
“It’s too late,” Mr. Szych told the person on the other end of the phone line. “I’m trapped.”
Seconds later, Mr. Szych ran for cover inside his house when he saw a mob approaching.
Rocks, bricks, and chunks of mortar went crashing through windows.
“I ain’t takin’ this,” he fumed, making a beeline for a back room where he said he had been storing a handgun. He returned to the porch, which by then had been trashed by the mob, and fired six warning shots.
“You want more?” he yelled.
Mr. Szych returned to the back room of his house and reloaded his weapon. Police, at that point, had not been seen on Bronson.
Here’s some background information in an article where we once again meet that white man, Mr Szych:
Police said the problem in North Toledo apparently began over a dispute between Bronson Avenue resident Thomas Szych, who is white, and his neighbor, who is black, about a fence.
Mr. Szych was named in the socialist movement’s press release because of his problems with gang members. Mr. Szych received a threatening flyer that indicated it was from the Dexter gang and he said he has had vandalism to his property.
Chief Navarre said Mr. Szych, his brother, and his father have made many complaints and reports about gang activity in the neighborhood. Officials aren’t receiving complaints and reports from other residents, he said.
Mr. Szych said the police response to his complaints has been poor. Chief Navarre said police have devoted a large amount of resources to Mr. Szych’s concerns.
“The officers following up on the complaints find them to be exaggerated,” the chief said.
Mr. Ford said Mr. Szych’s father made derogatory comments about two African-American officers, describing them as “gorillas with guns.”
Mr. Szych, who bought a handgun for protection but had it taken for safekeeping by police after he allegedly waved it at youths, said he is not a part of the socialist movement and did not ask for the group’s help.
Mr. White confirmed other local residents contacted the group, but would not identify them.
“I’m not against what they’re doing,” Mr. Szych said, “but I think what they’re doing will create more havoc for the residents in the neighborhood.”
What I like the most about the last article is that it refers to the Nazi group (which apparently labels itself “America’s Nazi party”) as “socialist,” which of course is a correct term - NaZi being the German abbreviation for National Socialism - but unfortunately one that newsmedia almost never uses to describe them. On the other hand, the article uses the term neo-Nazi, which is one that should be discarded: There’s nothing neo about Nazis, they’re always the same old Jew hating, civilization destroying goons.
