“I feel like it’s more secure now,” one woman said. “I know my son can walk home and be OK.”

Summary

Following a February 7th neo-Nazi rally, residents of Lincoln Heights, a majority-Black Ohio town, formed an armed Safety and Watch Program to protect against hate groups.

The rally, where participants waved swastikas and shouted slurs, received little police intervention, sparking fears of future threats when no arrests or identifications were made during the incident.

Volunteers now patrol bus stops and neighborhoods. “I’ve never felt safer as a Black man in my community,” said spokesperson Daronce Daniels.

The historically underserved and self-governing community shows strong support for the initiative with yard signs and sees this as a continuation of its legacy of self-reliance and community defense.

  • ragingdachshund@lemm.eeEnglish
    25·
    4 hours ago

    So the white sherif is more worried about black folks wearing masks and carry assault rifles than the neo Nazis wearing masks and carrying weapons? And not identifying them?

    I understand cops don’t want to arrest their friends, but this is pretty bad, even by those standards.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
    32·
    5 hours ago

    Getting organized is good.

    Individuals just yolo shooting Nazis and CEOs is kind of heart warming, but real power I think comes from organizing.

    • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Forget it. If you can’t imagine the government rounding up all the stockpiles of weapons from right wingers around the country, you should be against any further gun control. Our enemies are already well armed. Don’t make it harder for the rest of us.

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
    67·
    11 hours ago

    The rally, where participants waved swastikas

    Why isn’t this enough to shot them in the face?

    Millions died at war to stop swastika-waving scum, and the world united to never allow this to happen again, so why is American society suddenly ok with letting them terrorize communities?

    • CalipherJones@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      9 hours ago

      Almost all of the WW2 vets are gone man. I worry that the far right resurgence around the world is being allowed to happen because people are simply ignorant to the horror of WW2. I remember talking to someone younger than me about Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust. He didn’t seem to think much of the Holocaust which I found disturbing. I started bringing up the numbers and I could see the shock in his face. He genuinely didn’t seem to grasp just how many people were murdered because of fascism.

        • CalipherJones@lemmy.worldEnglish
          26·
          8 hours ago

          History classes in the US are patriot washed to convince soon to be laborers that they’re living in the greatest country to ever possibly exist.

          • stringere@sh.itjust.works
            5·
            5 hours ago

            “People’s History of the United States” and “Lies My Teacher Told Me” were eye opening to the omissions from my primary education. “Trail of Tears” should be required reading.

      • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
        6·
        7 hours ago

        I think everyone should attend an event where they can personally thank a WW2 vet.

        And we can apologise to them at the same time for not honouring their sacrifice by allowing tyranny to rise up nearly uninhibited.

        I regularly watch documentaries about out WW2 as a reminder of how easily dictators can threaten civilization, but also to learn about what it took for ordinary people to become heroes.

      • HeyListenWatchOut@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        9 hours ago

        Look at major wars and start going backwards in history… and then do the math of how long before that major war a previous major war was.

        WW2… 80-ish years ago from today Civil War… 1860s - about 80 or so years before that American Revolution - 1770s - about 80 to 90 years before that

        There seems to be a rough pattern indicating that once the generation scarred by a major war is gone… so seems to go the world order that was in place beforehand.

        • CalipherJones@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          9 hours ago

          I get it in the past because the information was simply not accessible for most people. Nowadays there is no excuse for ignorance. It takes a 5 minute google search to get a taste of the inhumanity of history. Everyone should be willing to put in at least 5 minutes man.

    • booly@sh.itjust.works
      24·
      10 hours ago

      She said this measure would have given her officers more leeway to make arrests during the neo-Nazi rally.

      Isn’t this just an acknowledgement that the mask wearers weren’t breaking any law, but the Sheriff just really wanted to arrest them for some reason?