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Judi Lynn

(163,361 posts)
Mon Feb 24, 2025, 04:17 AM Feb 24

Neo-Nazis rattled an Ohio town. Now masked, armed civilians are patrolling neighborhood streets

One of the armed individuals intent on keeping neo-Nazis at bay reportedly told a concerned resident: ‘We are the police’

Graig Graziosi
in Washington, DC
Friday 21 February 2025 23:14 GMT

Armed men in masks are reportedly patrolling the streets of Cincinnati’s Lincoln Heights neighborhood after a neo-Nazi group demonstrated in the area earlier this month.

The armed civilians are reportedly engaging in more than just a standard watch over their neighborhood, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. The masked men have stopped cars, turned drivers away from the neighborhood, and have allegedly threatened to shoot a property owner. They’re reportedly protecting the area from neo-Nazi activists, but their tactics have rattled some residents.

The paper reviewed 911 calls since the February 7 neo-Nazi demonstration at the I-75 overpass near the neighborhood with civilian patrols and found that several callers had reported seeing the armed men, and some had confrontations with the individuals.

Jim Meister, a Lincoln Heights business owner, told the paper that one of the men pointed a rifle at him and threatened to shoot him.

More:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/neo-nazi-ohio-town-armed-civilians-b2702624.html?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=embed1

Wouldn't the Orange Nightmare simply forbid cops to disturb U.S. Nazis?

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Neo-Nazis rattled an Ohio town. Now masked, armed civilians are patrolling neighborhood streets (Original Post) Judi Lynn Feb 24 OP
turning into paranoid gun humpers to protect against paranoid gun humpers Skittles Feb 24 #1
Nothing shocks me samplegirl Feb 24 #2
And these "masked, armed civilians are" who? Behind the Aegis Feb 24 #3

Skittles

(163,610 posts)
1. turning into paranoid gun humpers to protect against paranoid gun humpers
Mon Feb 24, 2025, 04:42 AM
Feb 24

what a fucked up society we live in

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