Six arrested in neo-Nazi march
A march by a busload of neo-Nazi activists on Constitution Avenue in the nation’s capital, bringing traffic to a halt, filling the streets with hundreds of police and provoking an ugly confrontation on the sidelines, resulted in at least six arrests.
About 30 marchers from the Michigan-based National Socialist Movement, waving red swastika flags and shouting “Sieg Heil,” emerged about 2:30 p.m. from a bus one block from the White House and strode toward the Capitol, flanked by thick cordons of police who walked the route in riot gear and hundreds of officers on horseback, bicycles and motorcycles.
The marchers said their purpose was to denounce illegal immigration and to offer white Americans an alternative to the two-party political system. Many wore black storm trooper uniforms, boots and armbands.
The march itself was peaceful, and U.S. Park Police said the organizers had a permit.
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