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TOLEDO, Ohio (CNN) -- A neo-Nazi group's scheduled march against "black crime" in Toledo, Ohio, sparked rioting Saturday afternoon.
Police and SWAT teams moved in, and several people were arrested.
Toledo Mayor Jack Ford blamed gang members for the violence. Watch Mayor Ford answer questions about the violence.
The march was called off, and none of the National Socialist Movement group's 80 members who showed up to participate was arrested, according to Bill White, a spokesman for the group.
Hours later, aerial video showed people vandalizing buildings and setting fire to a two-story building that apparently housed a bar, Toledo police spokeswoman Capt. Diana Ruiz-Krause told CNN.
The violence was contained to a six- or eight-block area in north Toledo, she added.
At least 150 officers from various units -- some on horseback, bicycles and in riot gear -- were on the scene.
Ford said he was declaring a state of emergency and asking for 50 highway patrol officers to reinforce Toledo police. An 8 p.m. curfew will be in effect for people "roaming around the streets," he said.
Ford said the police were prepared for the march and had appealed to the community to ignore the Nazis, saying the situation turned into "exactly what they wanted."
White's group promotes itself as America's Nazi Party and said that it was protesting black gangs, which it claimed were harassing white residents.
The group said it had received support from Toledo's white citizens and community activists.
White blamed the riot on Toledo police, saying they intentionally changed the group's march route to make it collide with a counter-demonstration.
About 20 members from both the International Socialists Organization and One People's Project showed up, and some handed eggs to African-American residents to throw at the Nazi marchers, White said.
Ruiz-Krause blamed the mayhem on a disorganized group of the community's youth.
Most of the violence happened when residents, who had pelted the Nazi marchers with bottles and rocks, took out their anger on police, said Brian Jagodzinski, chief news photographer for CNN affiliate WTVG.
Video showed crowds at around 2:25 p.m. using bats to bring down a wooden fence as looters broke into a small grocery store.
"The crowd was very ... extremely agitated at the police ... for doing this [making arrests in] the community when they should be doing this to the Nazis," Jagodzinski said.
Around 3 p.m., crowds of young men pelted the outside of a two-story residence with rocks, smashed out the windows with wooden crates, ran inside and threw out the furniture and lamps from the upper-level windows to the sidewalk below. No police were on the scene.
About 10 minutes later, the building's second story was in flames as a crowd of people watched.
When police arrived, they used pepper spray on counter-demonstrators and shot tear gas containers into the crowd, Jagodzinski said.
He added that his news van and a police car had windows smashed and doors bent back.
When the violence broke out, the Nazi marchers returned to their headquarters, White said.
A statement from the National Socialist Movement said Toledo city officials had said they would not issue a permit for the group's march. The group said it did not seek a permit, because it didn't ask for "special accommodations."
"We are not asking that roads be closed; we are not asking that sidewalks be closed; we are not asking for additional police protection," White said in the statement. "All we are saying is that we will have a few people walking down the street making a statement about an issue the City is refusing to address.
"And if the City interferes with or unreasonably burdens our ability to do so, then they will answer for their behavior in court," the statement added.
It goes one for the student who refuses to submit and two for the teacher who is under-paid as shit, and three for the strikes who give young bloods life and four for the years you spent stifled inside.
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fuckin nazis.
Was watching a video about it on CNN, linked from somewhere else on this forum if I do recall. I find it so hard to even begin to comprehend what a Nazi's was of thinking must be like to justify racism and nationalism.
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Of course they the media was saying that the blacks who showed to chase them away were "gang members."
