Do you know that for a fact? What I read was someone complained about drug deals. The nazis in Roanoake picked up on it and planned the march. Do you expect things to be calm when nazis want to march in a black neighborhood? What if it was a Jewish neighborhood? What if I got a group together and marched in a muslim neighborhood?
Were these kids idiots and behaved criminally? You bet. Idiots can usually be played like fiddles.
"What if it was a Jewish neighborhood?"
Excuse me, but the Nazis marched in Skokie, Illinois, years and years ago. There were angry words, but not this.
Just reporting what the local official had to say earlier this afternoon.
What if Louis Farrakhan and the NAACP gathered together tens of thousands and marched ......
Oh never mind.
Yes - I expect a tiny rally to be ignored - not be used as an excuse for general lawlessless and rioting.
Don't make excuses for rioters. Don't have a double standard for acceptable behaviour, or you are contributing to the problem.
Like it or not - the Nazi's were correct in this case. They wanted to draw attention to a neighborhood that was out of control. They proved their point.
The real question is - why does it take Nazis from Roanoke to draw attention?