Organized Against Hate, Or An Excuse To Act Like Animals
Toledo, OH became a battleground over the weekend. A Neo-Nazi march turned into a riot that lasted much of the day Saturday, which prompted the mayor to institute a * p.m. curfew for Saturday and Sunday. The Toledo Blade has an update today.
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/003733.htm
It started with neo-Nazis, mushroomed into a riot, and left behind a community shaken and wounded.
With violence not seen in Toledo since the race riots of the 1960s, crowds sometimes numbering more than 500 yesterday threw rocks, bottles, and bricks at law enforcement officials. Police responded with clouds of tear gas and wooden "knee-knocker" pellets.
At its ugliest, looters struck at least four businesses, including Jim and Lou’s bar at 3032 Mulberry St., which they set on fire. There were assaults on bystanders and vandalism with damages in the tens of thousands of dollars, including attacks on emergency and media vehicles. Police said overtime costs could easily exceed $100,000.
Police arrested at least 60 people — 43 adults and 17 juveniles — primarily for aggravated rioting, assault, and vandalism. Some were gang members, police and Mayor Jack Ford said. [Ed. note: None were "white supremacists."]
One police officer was treated for a head injury after she was hit in the head with a stone. A firefighter paramedic was also treated. Numerous other officers sustained minor injuries when struck by objects. There were no official reports of injuries to citizens, but some people were overcome by tear gas and at least two Blade photographers were assaulted...
...Police Chief Mike Navarre didn’t mince words last night about what happened in his city.
"You have cars burning and stores being looted and disregard for law enforcement where they can’t do their job without taking rocks and bottles," he said. "Officers are going to the hospital because they’re getting their heads hit with a rock. I’d call that a riot."
This was no march against racism. This was a typical riot that the MSM will no doubt spin for America. Much like the spin piece done by the MSM in the wake of Katrina in New Orleans where a balck man was asked why he was looting things from a store that were anything but necessary. The man’s response? He was "owed" that from the years of repression. Will this be the excuse of the MSM condoning the violence and anti-social behavior of a those involved? The mayor and police chief have a duty to protect the innocents that are literally caught in the cross-fire.
The Blade makes a note (italicized above) that no white supremacists were arrested. It was only the blacks that were torching buildings and cars, throwing rocks and bricks at cars and cops, and generally making a nuisance of themselves. I’m sure there will be screams of racism in the arrests. Uncle Jesse and Uncle Al (the real Uncle Tom’s behind the bootheel on the blacks in America) will be called in to hold peace vigils and make statements equating the mayor and police chief with "Bull" Connor. The MSM will probably highlight a young black man with all the promise ahead of him that "just got caught up in the now, man."
It’s all bull. These people decided that because the Nazis were marching that they should be able to march against them. The problem is, as the time line below shows, they didn’t stop once the Nazis were instructed by police to go home. That was done for their safety.
8:45 a.m.: Toledo Police Chief Mike Navarre talks with about 40 counter-demonstrators in a parking lot of Manhattan Plaza in North Toledo, about five blocks from the site of a planned neo-Nazi march. "You can pretty much go where you want," the chief tells the protesters. "Just try not to obstruct anybody. It’s too nice a day to end up in jail."
9:40 a.m.: Chief Navarre drives around the neighborhood and everything is quiet, with "Erase the Hate" signs displayed on many front lawns.
10:05 a.m.: A police dispatcher reports gang members wearing colors gathering along Stickney, Central, and Ketcham avenues. "This is not going to be pretty," Chief Navarre predicts. "I’m starting to get a pretty bad feeling."
11 a.m.: About a dozen neo-Nazis in uniform gather at the east side of Woodward High School yelling, "White pride, not hate" and racial insults. Across the street, a growing crowd of people yells back as they held signs like "No Nazi Hate" and "Fight Racism, Down With Nazis." Police were stationed near the neo-Nazis to protect them from the crowd.
11:20 a.m.: A line of about 40 more Toledo police officers makes its way to the neo-Nazis to surround them in preparation for the march.
11:25 a.m.: Some police officers begin arming themselves with plastic shields.
11:35 a.m.: Protesters throw rocks at the neo-Nazis and mounted police patrols. Police make the first arrest involving the protest.
11:45 a.m.: After surrounding the neo-Nazis, numbering about 15, police and the marchers walk to Woodrow Wilson Park, where a wall of police stands between the neo-Nazis and members of the media gathered for a press conference.
11:50 a.m.: Bill White, a spokesman for the National Socialist Movement — which calls itself "America’s Nazi Party" — complains that police are preventing 40 more of his members from joining them. Police say those members arrived late, after the area was secured.
11:55 a.m.: The first of countless tear gas canisters are fired by police at crowds along Mulberry. Mobs swarm Bronson Avenue, throwing bricks and rocks through windows and hitting several people. John Szych runs into a back room of his house and emerges with a handgun. He fires six warning shots. "You want more?" he yells.
11:57 a.m.: As angry crowds along Stickney begin throwing bricks and rocks at vehicles, police decide to cancel the march out of fear that the situation could get out of control. Screaming "censorship" and making the Nazi salute, the neo-Nazis eventually agree to get into their cars and drive away.
12:20 p.m.: The neo-Nazis are gone from the North Toledo area by now, but violence begins to intensify. Crowds of several hundred people begin gathering at the intersection of Central and Mulberry.
12:25 p.m.: The Central and Mulberry mobs begin throwing rocks. Police respond by launching tear gas canisters.
12:30 p.m.: An endless stream of vehicles, including a local TV truck, is pelted with bricks and rocks by mobs. At least one Toledo police sport utility vehicle is seen driving through the neighborhood with its windshield and other windows smashed.
12:35 p.m.: The standoff between police and rioters intensifies on Mulberry. Thirty or more vehicles have their windows smashed by rioters at Central and Mulberry.
12:40 p.m.: Police yell through megaphones, asking the crowd to disperse or face arrest.
1:15 p.m.: Chief Navarre declares the "worst is over" and praises his officers’ restraint.
1:30 p.m.: More tear gas is fired at the crowd along Mulberry near Central. Police, stationed at the intersection of Streicher Street and Mulberry, begin yelling to one another that the crowd is getting ready to rush them. They move several patrol cars back to prevent them from getting their windows smashed. "Stay together! Don’t get separated!" police yell to each other.
1:35 p.m.: An ambulance is pelted by a barrage of rocks and bricks, and the windshield is smashed.
2 p.m.: Looters break windows and steal items at American Petroleum convenience store at Stickney Avenue and East Central. Police again launch tear gas at the crowd at Central and Mulberry.
2:15 p.m.: Mayor Jack Ford arrives at Mulberry near Wilson Park. Mayor Ford, Fire Chief Mike Bell, and the Rev. Mansour Bey from the First Church of God in Toledo walk down Mulberry toward Central. Mr. Ford, his head down, tells a reporter that he hopes to disperse the crowd without more violence erupting. With a megaphone, Chief Bell tries to talk to the crowd, numbering about 300 to 400. "Listen up! The Nazis have been gone two hours!" Mayor Ford also tries to talk to the crowd through the megaphone, explaining that the neo-Nazi group had a constitutional right to march. The crowd is angered by that explanation. Mayor Ford at times hands the bullhorn to a reputed gang leader, who tries to calm people down while the mob is screaming at the mayor and others.
2:50 p.m.: Looters break into Jim & Lou’s Bar, at 3032 Mulberry, steal liquor, destroy an upstairs apartment, and set it on fire.
2:55 p.m.: Looters emerge from a building, believed to be a bar, at Central and Mulberry, only 20 yards from where Mayor Ford, Chief Bell, and Mr. Bey are addressing the crowd. Shots are heard. Reports quickly circulate through the crowd that looters discovered guns in the establishment. Mayor Ford, Chief Bell, and Mr. Bey begin walking back on Mulberry toward Woodrow Wilson Park, shaking their heads in disgust and acknowledging their frustration.
3 p.m.: Chief Bell heads back to the police command post. "They said they’d disperse if the police left," he explains, then heads back toward the crowd at Mulberry and Central.
3:15 p.m.: Smoke can be seen pouring from the looted bar. Chief Bell walks back to the police. "No negotiating. We’re done," he says. Police begin to move in to secure the area so that fire trucks can get to the building.
3:20 p.m.: Two fire trucks arrive behind police crews on Mulberry near Streicher. Many of the firefighters are wearing bulletproof vests. A black man, Sir Boston, 53, of Central Avenue, runs toward the police officers and pleads with them not to let the fire trucks in for their own safety just yet. He warns that five gangs have control of the Central and Mulberry intersection, and that firefighters are sure to be assaulted if they attempt to put out the blaze. Police move in, anyway, now determined to disperse the crowd with tear gas and a show of force.
They continued to riot long after the Nazis were sent home. They targeted civilian homes, random cars, and ended up burning down a family business (Jim and Lou’s Bar). The business is gutted, and a picture is up on Michelle Malkin’s site. Eighty-six year old Lou Ratajski has lost everything, and has stated he’s not rebuilding it. And what sickens me the most is we will be the ones who ultimately get blamed by the blacks. They take no initiative to better their lives, or to think about something like this before they get started. They "get caught up in the heat of the moment," and complain when we don’t understand them.
Civilized society has a plethora of laws that dictate our behavior. A riot isn’t permissible no matter the excuse. And if the citizens in Toledo truly have a problem with things that are going on, they need to take their gripes to the city government. This is sickening for me to say, but Nazis have just as much right to protest over their gripes as blacks do, or Hispanics, or Asians. They shouldn’t, as their ideology was one of the bloodiest in the 20th Century. However, as I have heard on many occasions, "those who do not listen to the lessons of the past are doomed to repeat them." Their march is a reminder that there are still morons who believe in the hate-filled ideology of the Nazi Party. A more appropriate counter-protest of them would have been to black the path of their march.
"Sorry Adolf, you’re not marching through my neighborhood."
But to attack the innocent people around the community is asinine. Each and every person arrested should face the maximum charges and penalties under the law. No excuse should be given to these people. And if Uncle Jesse and Uncle Al do show up, and start making problems, I hope the police move in and deal with them too. "I’m sorry Mr. Jackson but stirring up the people again equates to disturbing the peace. You’re under arrest." We’d be wise to remember that is was Al Sharpton that sparked violence over the phony Tawana Brawley story.
Mistress Pundit
Toledo, OH became a battleground over the weekend. A Neo-Nazi march turned into a riot that lasted much of the day Saturday, which prompted the mayor to institute a * p.m. curfew for Saturday and Sunday. The Toledo Blade has an update today.
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/003733.htm
It started with neo-Nazis, mushroomed into a riot, and left behind a community shaken and wounded.
With violence not seen in Toledo since the race riots of the 1960s, crowds sometimes numbering more than 500 yesterday threw rocks, bottles, and bricks at law enforcement officials. Police responded with clouds of tear gas and wooden "knee-knocker" pellets.
At its ugliest, looters struck at least four businesses, including Jim and Lou’s bar at 3032 Mulberry St., which they set on fire. There were assaults on bystanders and vandalism with damages in the tens of thousands of dollars, including attacks on emergency and media vehicles. Police said overtime costs could easily exceed $100,000.
Police arrested at least 60 people — 43 adults and 17 juveniles — primarily for aggravated rioting, assault, and vandalism. Some were gang members, police and Mayor Jack Ford said. [Ed. note: None were "white supremacists."]
One police officer was treated for a head injury after she was hit in the head with a stone. A firefighter paramedic was also treated. Numerous other officers sustained minor injuries when struck by objects. There were no official reports of injuries to citizens, but some people were overcome by tear gas and at least two Blade photographers were assaulted...
...Police Chief Mike Navarre didn’t mince words last night about what happened in his city.
"You have cars burning and stores being looted and disregard for law enforcement where they can’t do their job without taking rocks and bottles," he said. "Officers are going to the hospital because they’re getting their heads hit with a rock. I’d call that a riot."
This was no march against racism. This was a typical riot that the MSM will no doubt spin for America. Much like the spin piece done by the MSM in the wake of Katrina in New Orleans where a balck man was asked why he was looting things from a store that were anything but necessary. The man’s response? He was "owed" that from the years of repression. Will this be the excuse of the MSM condoning the violence and anti-social behavior of a those involved? The mayor and police chief have a duty to protect the innocents that are literally caught in the cross-fire.
The Blade makes a note (italicized above) that no white supremacists were arrested. It was only the blacks that were torching buildings and cars, throwing rocks and bricks at cars and cops, and generally making a nuisance of themselves. I’m sure there will be screams of racism in the arrests. Uncle Jesse and Uncle Al (the real Uncle Tom’s behind the bootheel on the blacks in America) will be called in to hold peace vigils and make statements equating the mayor and police chief with "Bull" Connor. The MSM will probably highlight a young black man with all the promise ahead of him that "just got caught up in the now, man."
It’s all bull. These people decided that because the Nazis were marching that they should be able to march against them. The problem is, as the time line below shows, they didn’t stop once the Nazis were instructed by police to go home. That was done for their safety.
8:45 a.m.: Toledo Police Chief Mike Navarre talks with about 40 counter-demonstrators in a parking lot of Manhattan Plaza in North Toledo, about five blocks from the site of a planned neo-Nazi march. "You can pretty much go where you want," the chief tells the protesters. "Just try not to obstruct anybody. It’s too nice a day to end up in jail."
9:40 a.m.: Chief Navarre drives around the neighborhood and everything is quiet, with "Erase the Hate" signs displayed on many front lawns.
10:05 a.m.: A police dispatcher reports gang members wearing colors gathering along Stickney, Central, and Ketcham avenues. "This is not going to be pretty," Chief Navarre predicts. "I’m starting to get a pretty bad feeling."
11 a.m.: About a dozen neo-Nazis in uniform gather at the east side of Woodward High School yelling, "White pride, not hate" and racial insults. Across the street, a growing crowd of people yells back as they held signs like "No Nazi Hate" and "Fight Racism, Down With Nazis." Police were stationed near the neo-Nazis to protect them from the crowd.
11:20 a.m.: A line of about 40 more Toledo police officers makes its way to the neo-Nazis to surround them in preparation for the march.
11:25 a.m.: Some police officers begin arming themselves with plastic shields.
11:35 a.m.: Protesters throw rocks at the neo-Nazis and mounted police patrols. Police make the first arrest involving the protest.
11:45 a.m.: After surrounding the neo-Nazis, numbering about 15, police and the marchers walk to Woodrow Wilson Park, where a wall of police stands between the neo-Nazis and members of the media gathered for a press conference.
11:50 a.m.: Bill White, a spokesman for the National Socialist Movement — which calls itself "America’s Nazi Party" — complains that police are preventing 40 more of his members from joining them. Police say those members arrived late, after the area was secured.
11:55 a.m.: The first of countless tear gas canisters are fired by police at crowds along Mulberry. Mobs swarm Bronson Avenue, throwing bricks and rocks through windows and hitting several people. John Szych runs into a back room of his house and emerges with a handgun. He fires six warning shots. "You want more?" he yells.
11:57 a.m.: As angry crowds along Stickney begin throwing bricks and rocks at vehicles, police decide to cancel the march out of fear that the situation could get out of control. Screaming "censorship" and making the Nazi salute, the neo-Nazis eventually agree to get into their cars and drive away.
12:20 p.m.: The neo-Nazis are gone from the North Toledo area by now, but violence begins to intensify. Crowds of several hundred people begin gathering at the intersection of Central and Mulberry.
12:25 p.m.: The Central and Mulberry mobs begin throwing rocks. Police respond by launching tear gas canisters.
12:30 p.m.: An endless stream of vehicles, including a local TV truck, is pelted with bricks and rocks by mobs. At least one Toledo police sport utility vehicle is seen driving through the neighborhood with its windshield and other windows smashed.
12:35 p.m.: The standoff between police and rioters intensifies on Mulberry. Thirty or more vehicles have their windows smashed by rioters at Central and Mulberry.
12:40 p.m.: Police yell through megaphones, asking the crowd to disperse or face arrest.
1:15 p.m.: Chief Navarre declares the "worst is over" and praises his officers’ restraint.
1:30 p.m.: More tear gas is fired at the crowd along Mulberry near Central. Police, stationed at the intersection of Streicher Street and Mulberry, begin yelling to one another that the crowd is getting ready to rush them. They move several patrol cars back to prevent them from getting their windows smashed. "Stay together! Don’t get separated!" police yell to each other.
1:35 p.m.: An ambulance is pelted by a barrage of rocks and bricks, and the windshield is smashed.
2 p.m.: Looters break windows and steal items at American Petroleum convenience store at Stickney Avenue and East Central. Police again launch tear gas at the crowd at Central and Mulberry.
2:15 p.m.: Mayor Jack Ford arrives at Mulberry near Wilson Park. Mayor Ford, Fire Chief Mike Bell, and the Rev. Mansour Bey from the First Church of God in Toledo walk down Mulberry toward Central. Mr. Ford, his head down, tells a reporter that he hopes to disperse the crowd without more violence erupting. With a megaphone, Chief Bell tries to talk to the crowd, numbering about 300 to 400. "Listen up! The Nazis have been gone two hours!" Mayor Ford also tries to talk to the crowd through the megaphone, explaining that the neo-Nazi group had a constitutional right to march. The crowd is angered by that explanation. Mayor Ford at times hands the bullhorn to a reputed gang leader, who tries to calm people down while the mob is screaming at the mayor and others.
2:50 p.m.: Looters break into Jim & Lou’s Bar, at 3032 Mulberry, steal liquor, destroy an upstairs apartment, and set it on fire.
2:55 p.m.: Looters emerge from a building, believed to be a bar, at Central and Mulberry, only 20 yards from where Mayor Ford, Chief Bell, and Mr. Bey are addressing the crowd. Shots are heard. Reports quickly circulate through the crowd that looters discovered guns in the establishment. Mayor Ford, Chief Bell, and Mr. Bey begin walking back on Mulberry toward Woodrow Wilson Park, shaking their heads in disgust and acknowledging their frustration.
3 p.m.: Chief Bell heads back to the police command post. "They said they’d disperse if the police left," he explains, then heads back toward the crowd at Mulberry and Central.
3:15 p.m.: Smoke can be seen pouring from the looted bar. Chief Bell walks back to the police. "No negotiating. We’re done," he says. Police begin to move in to secure the area so that fire trucks can get to the building.
3:20 p.m.: Two fire trucks arrive behind police crews on Mulberry near Streicher. Many of the firefighters are wearing bulletproof vests. A black man, Sir Boston, 53, of Central Avenue, runs toward the police officers and pleads with them not to let the fire trucks in for their own safety just yet. He warns that five gangs have control of the Central and Mulberry intersection, and that firefighters are sure to be assaulted if they attempt to put out the blaze. Police move in, anyway, now determined to disperse the crowd with tear gas and a show of force.
They continued to riot long after the Nazis were sent home. They targeted civilian homes, random cars, and ended up burning down a family business (Jim and Lou’s Bar). The business is gutted, and a picture is up on Michelle Malkin’s site. Eighty-six year old Lou Ratajski has lost everything, and has stated he’s not rebuilding it. And what sickens me the most is we will be the ones who ultimately get blamed by the blacks. They take no initiative to better their lives, or to think about something like this before they get started. They "get caught up in the heat of the moment," and complain when we don’t understand them.
Civilized society has a plethora of laws that dictate our behavior. A riot isn’t permissible no matter the excuse. And if the citizens in Toledo truly have a problem with things that are going on, they need to take their gripes to the city government. This is sickening for me to say, but Nazis have just as much right to protest over their gripes as blacks do, or Hispanics, or Asians. They shouldn’t, as their ideology was one of the bloodiest in the 20th Century. However, as I have heard on many occasions, "those who do not listen to the lessons of the past are doomed to repeat them." Their march is a reminder that there are still morons who believe in the hate-filled ideology of the Nazi Party. A more appropriate counter-protest of them would have been to black the path of their march.
"Sorry Adolf, you’re not marching through my neighborhood."
But to attack the innocent people around the community is asinine. Each and every person arrested should face the maximum charges and penalties under the law. No excuse should be given to these people. And if Uncle Jesse and Uncle Al do show up, and start making problems, I hope the police move in and deal with them too. "I’m sorry Mr. Jackson but stirring up the people again equates to disturbing the peace. You’re under arrest." We’d be wise to remember that is was Al Sharpton that sparked violence over the phony Tawana Brawley story.
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