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.
In other places flying swastikas is illegal
As a kid I was conflicted with the act of making symbols or such things illegal, like @yabai@lemmy.world said above it’s all protected so I’m not sure what people wanted arrests for since it wouldn’t hold and it’s another victim complex for the poor white nationalist to hold or gives cops more leeway for future incidents.
Now as an adult who’s lived most of his life in the southern states of America, we really fucked up the Reconstruction Era after the civil war. Things like banning the symbols of hatred drastically reduces the influence it has on vulnerable populace.
Instead, those same sadistic leaders who used humans for fodder got to stay in control and continue spreading their influence and corrupting greed in their domain. These are literal breeding grounds with school age children flying flags of enemy armies that sought to enslave and conquer the country.
Ban it, ban it all to make a statement that “Yes, this shit is unacceptable for a human society”.