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.ee
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    2922 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.

  • Laura
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    1121 hours ago

    close enough

    welcome back Black Panthers

  • @boaratio@lemmy.world
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    2721 day ago

    The cops didn’t didn’t show up for the same reason that you never see Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus at the same time.

  • @Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    631 day 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.world
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      301 day 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.world
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          261 day 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
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            723 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.

      • HeyListenWatchOut
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        91 day 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.world
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          91 day 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.

      • @Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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        41 day 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.

    • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
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      191 day ago

      Because the Venn diagram of those waving swastikas and those enforcing the law is nearly a circle.

  • @peoplebeproblems@midwest.social
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    1201 day ago

    Wanna bet this community sees a temporary decrease in crime?

    Hell, I personally would feel safer as an opponent of facism there too.

    History shows us that this will not be tolerated for long though, regardless of the constitutional right. I hope this idea is picked up elsewhere. There are a lot of places that could benefit from running their own regulated militia: cities, towns, and neighborhoods.

    • @Eezyville@sh.itjust.works
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      741 day ago

      You wanna bet they’re gonna make some laws now to restrict them because black people are exercising their 2nd amendment rights.

      • @peoplebeproblems@midwest.social
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        421 day ago

        That’s the part I’m curious about. California did enact a law in 1967 requiring permits to openly carry loaded firearms, but the Black Panthers didn’t just go away.

        Anything enacted at a federal level will get pushback, and I’m very curious about how it will be constructed to avoid pissing off their support. In either way, I would presume that people aren’t just going to passively hand over their guns. We know how that ends up.

        • chingadera
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          423 hours ago

          That will be the true test on how strong fascism is in this country. I have ten bucks on Republicans willingly handing their firearms over at the direction of the current administration after decades of not being able to shut the fuck up about keeping their 2a rights.

    • @electric_nan@lemmy.ml
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      521 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.

  • @Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    801 day ago

    If the cops didn’t do shit when the Nazis came, why do they think the cops won’t fuck them over if they try to stop the Nazis?

    • @CompostMaterial@lemmy.world
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      1311 day ago

      Cowards tend to back down when confronted on equal grounds. This is essentially a resurgence of the Black Panther movement, which worked quite well doing the exact same thing.

      • @Notserious@lemmy.ca
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        321 day ago

        I wonder if this will trigger republicans to enact gun laws

        Mulford Act A 1967 California bill to repeal the law that permitted citizens to carry loaded weapons in public places The Mulford Act was a 1967 California bill that prohibited public carrying of loaded firearms without a permit. Named after Republican assemblyman Don Mulford, and signed into law by governor of California Ronald Reagan, the bill was crafted with the goal of disarming members of the Black Panther Party who were conducting armed patrols of Oakland neighborhoods, in what would later be termed copwatching. Wikipedia

          • @baldingpudenda@lemmy.world
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            161 day ago

            Or at least a bigger caliber. Why do all these would be assassin’s not spend and extra 200 dollars in range time. Meanwhile kennedy gets the fucking marine that bullseye’s womp bats with a garand.

          • @ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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            61 day ago

            Fun fact: Reagan kicked off his 1980 campaign with a speech in Philadelphia MS - a middle-of-nowhere city known for absolutely fucking nothing except the murder of three civil rights workers in 1964.

        • chingadera
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          11 day ago

          Lmfao imagine showing up to be the voice of the people and banning something termed “cop watching” and not hanging yourself right after.

        • BigFig
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          11 day ago

          An interesting distinction, so you could carry an unloaded rifle, and a magazine or ammunition in your pocket and be totally legal and still ready to defend yourself if needed

      • @grue@lemmy.world
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        221 day ago

        This is essentially a resurgence of the Black Panther movement, which worked quite well doing the exact same thing.

        Well, up until it got COINTELPRO’d and the cops assassinated Fred Hampton, at least.

      • @Deceptichum@quokk.au
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        -221 day ago

        He said he supports law enforcement, but that its handling of the Feb. 7 demonstration doesn’t give him faith that it will protect him in the future. For that reason, he says he’s proud of the neighborhood safety and watch program, even though he wishes it weren’t needed.

        Well for starters opposing the police instead of supporting them.

        • Justin
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          321 day ago

          You gotta virtue signal sometimes. Purity testing every word people say will get the movement nowhere.

          • @qarbone@lemmy.world
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            23 hours ago

            Plus, the quote only effectively says “I want law and order. I just don’t think the police will use law and order to protect us.”

            He supports “law enforcement”, not “the police”.