Summary
A group displaying swastika flags on an I-75 overpass in Evendale, Ohio, was confronted by local residents, leading to tensions and a heavy police presence.
Residents pushed past police, seized a flag, and forced the demonstrators to retreat into a U-Haul truck.
Officials, including Cincinnati’s mayor and Hamilton County’s sheriff, condemned the demonstration.
The Jewish Federation and NAACP also spoke out, questioning where the demonstrators came from. The NAACP suggested the current administration’s policies may have emboldened the group.
No arrests were made.
You know what’d be hilarious? Start referring to all of these nazis and far right extremists and red hats as Fags. My how it would piss them off like no other.
I’d say it’s the perfect slur for fascists: Perhaps from a diminutive of Vulgar Latin *facus, from Latin fascis (“bundle of wood”)
Hey are you the fags i heard about?
Just driving by em. “Faaaaaags”
The swastika is like brandishing a sword and should be banned from all public use except museums.
Sure, you have a right to Free Speech - you can say whatever you like. I also have the right to not do business with you, to not hire you, to remember your face and call you out on the street and let eeeeeeveryone in my neighborhood know who you are and what you do, and to not allow you to use my online services.
The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.
Aren’t nazis like literally the enemy? They were eradicated after WWII, they never stopped being the enemy. As soon as they’re back, it should be open season. Cmon America, use that military budget of yours.
Amen
Just to be clear here, no arrests were made because they were exercising their first amendment right they Americans are so proud of.
They displayed their message on public ground (the sidewalk) and were otherwise peaceful. Do I hate their message? Hell yeah I do, but unless the US realizes that free speech should have its limits then what they did was lawful.
In opposition, what the other people did was unlawful AND THEY WEREN’T ARRESTED FOR IT! The police actually did a good job here!
Agreed (mostly).
Just because something isn’t illegal, that doesn’t make it morally right. The inverse also applies.
Even though the First Amendment prohibits government suppression of speech, it doesn’t mean that the expression is immune to consequences from society including non-governmental suppression.
I think the “no arrests were made” observation was meant in relation to your last point, not the first at all.
Hate speech, fighting words, and word that cause dangerous situations, (think yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater) are specifically not covered by the US version of Freedom of Speech.
No arrests were made because the thugs with badges don’t arrest their coworkers.
Ok, that’s some bullshit, because they have ruled that causing a panic is illegal. Schenck v. United States, 1919.
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1900-1940/249us47
The law is fucking imaginary.
It’s a different thing, I’m talking about hate speech specifically
You can do hate speech as much as you want in the US, if you threaten someone with violence or incite people to be violent with others it’s something else and so is causing a panic by screaming “FIRE!” in a theater when there’s no fire.
Three different things, one of them is legal and is what was done by the Nazis in that article.
I understood what you were saying. I get the technicality. I was venting that the technicality is bullshit when there is already a precedent that kinda says the opposite.
But the precedent doesn’t really apply here…
Fun tip. All u-hauls have a padlock hasp on the back door. The rental truck trick is a known method of white supremacist groups for these cute little pop-up hate experiences.
It is perfectly fine to carry a small padlock around at all times, too.
pop-up hate experience
I hate that it’s a thing, but I love the nomenclature.
And after you’ve expended your anti-nazi padlock, if said uhaul just magically burst into flames…
Something something nothing of value something
Ya I carry around a couple Molotov cocktails to help speed up the spontaneous combustion of fascist and their property.
People should start modifying drones to drop…brochures and fliers and such
I had the same exact thought. I was thinking water balloons filled with soda or something. Or… eggs.
“No arrests were made”
Because half the people in the U-Haul were probably co-workers.
It baffles me that in this day in 2025, with hundreds of data points being reported hourly, that we can’t look at the obvious preferential treatment fascists get from their cop buddies. Had that been a Free Palestine protest and some racist nutjob showed up to harrass them, the cops would have cleared the bridge and arrested a handful of the protestors, MAYBE one of the nutjobs IF they were REALLY pushing it. Then they’d find a reason why that bridge can’t be used for protesting, release the nutjob with a “stern” warning and rake all the protestors across the coals with any minor “disturbing the peace” type charges so they have a record for next time.
You might be thinking about this in a slightly wrong way.
“The protest was occurring on sidewalks designed for pedestrian travel. The protest, while very offensive, was not unlawful,” a press release from the Evendale Police Department said. “The protest was short lived in duration. The protesters left the area on their own. No further action was taken by the Evendale Police Department.”
However, several upstanding citizens interfered:
Eley said they eventually made it past police and someone snatched a flag from one of the demonstrators.
“The Nazis began to back off,” Eley said. “They quickly jumped in the back of a U-Haul truck and took off.”
A woman brought out lighter fluid to burn the flag, and he joined in with others stepping and spitting on the flag, said Eley, who was a Boy Scout.
“General flag disrespect: it’s a flag that deserves disrespect,” Eley said.
Resisters *got past police, took property, set it on fire, and weren’t arrested.
That’s a good thing.
For once, I am grateful for do-nothing police?
Oh was Elon in town? They should be careful, he might shut down their local hospital and put a high schooler in charge.
