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Andy Gregory
Jun 10, 2019
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An armed group of neo-Nazis marched on Detroit’s Motor City Pride festival on Saturday, “escorted” by police who allegedly "bruised those that tried to intervene".
Today at Motor City Pride, a friendly LGBT+ event, Detroit PD escorted Nazi's in full uniform outside of the entran… https://t.co/EnD4pT4T1M— marc 📷 (@marc 📷) 1560052682
https://t.co/R0TC4cJZ41— marc 📷 (@marc 📷) 1560052694
Around 10 supporters of the National Socialist Movement (NSM) made Nazi salutes while holding large shields emblazoned with their logo and waved swastika-adorned flags at the family-friendly LGBT+ celebration.
The white nationalists reportedly yelled “white power” and "sieg heil", ripped up rainbow flags and appeared to urinate on an Israeli flag, with some carrying rifles.
As reported by PinkNews, the hate group’s “commander” wrote on the Russian networking site VK, on which he has eight followers:
“NSM will be armed and counter-protesting the freaks. NSM, lets [sic] put some boots on the ground!!
"I don’t really give a damn about op-sec or Antifa in this situation.
We go in with Swastikas blazing and if people don’t like it, tough s***...
Those there to celebrate Pride could be heard chanting at police: "Who do you protect?"
Today armed neo-nazis crashed motor city pride with a police escort to make sure that nobody could stop them from t… https://t.co/70XNID0MYl— ghost boy (@ghost boy) 1560053025
People were understandably furious.
So, on the 50th anniversary year of Stonewall, a riot against police brutality and oppression, modern law enforceme… https://t.co/ILy9qtJHTK— Misty Gedlinske (@Misty Gedlinske) 1560089644
Where was Detroit Police when armed Nazis were marching with their NAZI FLAG shouting Homophobic slurs, anti-black… https://t.co/jqoyzBwUlB— StanceGrounded (@StanceGrounded) 1560094945
If you’re at Motor City Pride. Please be careful. There are armed nazis with police protection around Hart Plaza pr… https://t.co/A6TemcIJ72— 🚩🏴Puck🏴☠️🏳️🌈 (@🚩🏴Puck🏴☠️🏳️🌈) 1560027346
@marcklock @elibosnick Cis-hets be like "WhY IsN't ThErE a StRaIgHt PrIdE?" This is why— RamenFox404 🏳️🌈🟡⚪🟣⚫🎮 (@RamenFox404 🏳️🌈🟡⚪🟣⚫🎮) 1560081812
Warning: explicit language.
to all my friends going to pride: PLEASE be careful and aware of your surroundings. there was a group of neo nazis… https://t.co/26jml6rGpz— chloe 🦋 (@chloe 🦋) 1560024768
In the UK, Pride month opened with two homophobic attacks dominating the headlines.
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