Held in Detroit on Saturday, June 8, pride riots broke out after far-right, who in their procession, began to interfere with the parade.
According to the organizers, the two-day Motor City Pride Festival — the largest pride event in Michigan, each year attracting about 40 thousand representatives of the LGBTIQ community. The beginning of the weekend traditionally marked the parade started at noon at Hart Plaza — however, the participants enjoyed a festive mood for long.
PSA: !!! Guys there are literal nazis at Detroit pride today — Please be safe they ARE armed with weapons!! pic.twitter.com/dem5dygoXw
— 约瑟夫 (@zhongguoyuesefu) June 8, 2019
Soon in the crowd there were members of the National Socialist Movement — one of the largest neo-Nazi organizations in the United States, infamous for his racist and anti-Semitic protests.
There were literal NAZIS protesting Detroit Pride today. Don’t EVER say racism isnt real pic.twitter.com/2csNRhluwz
— Ari (@MakeU_ScreamAri) June 8, 2019
In the hands of members of the far-right movement were the swastika flags and posters with slogans NSM, some were raising their hands in Nazi salutes. For photos from the event, the participants of the pride trying to stop neo-Nazis to join the procession; next are the police, not allowing concretesteel to approach supremacists. Another picture shows a member of the NSM urinating on the Israeli flag and the other like neo-Nazis tearing the rainbow flag.
The Nazis crashing the Detroit Pride parade urinating on the Israeli flag and queer Jewish women being blocked from joining the DC dyke march for displaying the star of david. At the intersection of extreme ideologies is the hatred and obsession with Jews. pic.twitter.com/K5pbjacA9E
— Zak Sawyer (@itzhakbendavid) June 10, 2019
National Socialist Movement — one of the most influential and active far right organizations in the United States, serving against the Jews, LGBTIQ community, Muslims, blacks and illegal immigration. It was founded in Michigan in 1974, the year for the «theatrical and provocative protests,» but the real fame of the group began to grow in 2004 — after the death of the two main ideologues of the neo-Nazi movement, William Pierce and Richard Butler.
Prior to 2007, the members of NSM participated in the rallies in the Nazi forms, but then decided to change them to the «fighting black dress». Unlike most right-wing organizations, National Socialist Movement allows you to join their ranks and join the protests to members of other supremacists groups.
