An avowed white supremacist showed up early for a Neo-Nazi rally in downtown Los Angeles and began taunting counter-demonstrators at close range, prompting his own vicious beat down.
A mostly minority crowd of counter-protestors assembled hours in advance of a planned Neo-Nazi rally, which was set for 1:30 p.m. But at noon, the Los Angeles Times reports, a “bare-chested, middle-aged man with Nazi insignias tattooed on his chest and back” boldly and foolishly entered the crowd of counter-demonstrators and began mouthing off at the crowd of minorities near First and Spring streets.
The white supremacist was quickly swallowed up in the crowd as the counter-demonstrators surrounded him and chanted, “Nazi scum.”
The newspaper reports that one person pushed a sign in his face and another “jostled him.”
Undeterred by the size of the crowd, the white supremacist bobbed his head mockingly, inciting more anger. Suddenly, people began to push and when the supremacist pushed back, a blizzard of fists and feet began pelting him as he fell to the ground. One person slammed the wooden handle of a sign so hard into the white supremacist’s back that it snapped.
Some protestors tried to protect the man while others shouted, “You can’t fight hate with hate,” the LA Times reported. The fracas prompted the Los Angeles Police Department to enter into tactical alert. No word on any arrests. –terry shropshire
