workingclasshistory:

On this day, 15 October 2005, rioting broke out in Toledo, Ohio in protest at a neo-Nazi demonstration in the city being facilitated by the police. Police were escorting 14 neo-Nazis from Virginia who were demonstrating in the city, protecting them from around 1000 local residents: mostly African-Americans with some white anti-racists. When police attacked the anti-fascists, the crowd retaliated, fighting the police, setting fires, looting and forcing the Nazi demonstrators to disband. To our knowledge, they didn’t come back to Toledo, so there is a lesson there for other anti-racists.
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