Savage influence...

One would not usually equate Toledo Ohio with violence and rioting in the streets. Until now, we've reserved these incidents to LA.
It's normally a place of quiet beauty and select culture, with it's museums, ballet and symphony.
However, today will likely be a day that most of it's residents will surely want to forget. In a effort to allow freedom of speech and expression to reign, the city decided to let a Neo Nazi Group calling itself "America's Nazi Party" hold a demonstration which was in protest, of all things, against black crimes and gangs in their city. The group maintains that these "attacks" are almost always perpetuated against the white residents of the city. The group gathered at a city park just before noon and were to march under police protection. The news of the planned march was not taken lightly by the black community, who only the night before, were urged by some black city leaders and clergy to stay away and avoid giving it any credibility. Several people weren't going to let this happen without retaliation, even though the march was canceled in the end. About one-quarter of a mile away, along the planned march route, a mob formed.
The city was forced to use 150 police officers in both helicopters and on horseback, as well as on foot. They chased gangs of kids through the streets after several businesses and properties were destroyed and the gangs began throwing rocks and bottles at law enforcement. A group pounded on a storefront, others overturned cars and set a fire in a nearby bar. As a result, over 100 people were arrested.
The saddest irony is that the Nazi rally managed to insight the very behavior that they wanted to protest against in the first place. In the immortal words of Lou Dobbs from CNN, "This whole incident is one that I would categorize as a mindless response to a hate group". We agree.