Over 100 Arrested in Toledo, Ohio After Neo-Nazi March Prompts Counter-Protest & Riot

On Saturday, a neo-Nazi rally was planned by a group known as the "National Socialist Movement." The spokesman for the group, Bill White, said they were invited to come to the area by a white resident who complained to them about "black criminal behavior."

The Nazis planned to march through a predominately African-American neighborhood but authorities called it off when a large counter-demonstration assembled in response. The two sides hurled racial insults at each other for more than hour and then, Police allege, counter-demonstrators started to hurl rocks at the Nazis. The Police then called off the Nazi march but the violence escalated. By Sunday night, 114 people were arrested on charges that included rioting, burglary, felonious assault and carrying a concealed weapon.

To talk more about this, we are joined from Toledo, Ohio, by Pastor Mansour Bey. He is a minister at Toledo's First Church of God.

* Mansour Bey, Pastor at the First Church of God.

We want to go back to the late 1970s when a small group of neo-Nazis announced their intention to hold a uniformed rally in a small Illinois suburb. This is an excerpt of an audio documentary produced by Adi Gevins and Kathy McAnally, producers for Pacifica Radio station KPFA in Berkeley, California. It's called "The Right to be Wrong: Free Speech for Extremist Groups"

* "The Right to be Wrong," (Courtesy: Pacifica Radio Archives)

The case made its way to the Supreme Court which ruled 5-4 to uphold the Nazi's right to march through downtown Skokie. That was an excerpt of the audio documentary "The Right to be Wrong: Free Speech for Extremist Groups."

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