Cops drove by but didn’t “de-escalate” or step in when there was a confrontation, Nazi’s BTFO with tails between their legs.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    Cops are cowards. They hide in their patrol cars when there’s a single school shooter, of course they wouldn’t fuck with armed protesters.

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    Not really the point of the article, but this stuck out to me (emphasis mine):

    “Every state in this great nation was calling us, calling us horrible things," said Howell City Manager Erv Suida. “Staff (members) cried. They couldn’t take it anymore. That’s how bad it was.”

    Goddamn do the American exceptionalism brainworms run deep for someone to say this in the context of being harassed by Nazis.

    edit: whoops, it’s been pointed out that they were being called by people outraged at the Nazi demonstration, not Nazis. Still doesn’t make the “great nation” thing less weird, though.

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      It’s totally deserved, Howell (the city) management denies any issues with Nazi’s or the KKK despite this being a recurring issue for decades. Cishet white libs seriously see this as if it is a middle school bully. A reddit commenter said something along the lines of “Don’t pay any attention to them and they’ll go away” Are you fucking kidding me? These are people with actual murders and assaults on their rap sheet.