Man walks around Seattle with swastika armband and gets punched to ground by passerby

[Stuart G]

Happened three days ago.......... Yahoo News:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-walked-around-seattle-swastika-190500603.html
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A man wearing a swastika armband was punched to the ground in downtown Seattle, after activists spread his photo across Twitter. The incident was caught on camera and uploaded online on Sunday.

The Seattle Police Department said they received reports of a man wearing a swastika armband and “instigating fights” late Sunday afternoon. When officers arrived on the scene, however, they found him on the ground. The man removed his armband and left without telling police what had happened.

Hours before, an anti-fascist Twitter account had shared a photo of a man riding the bus in Seattle with a Nazi armband on his right arm.

“Nazi s***head on D line headed to downtown #Seattle. Submitter said they were harassing a black man on the bus,” the account wrote, indicating that the photo had been submitted by a third party.

[Orrex]

1. Nazi goes splatzi

[KG]

3. I'll bet he did nazi that coming.

not sure what he thought being a nazi shit head would get him.

[Orrex]

5. :thumbsup:

[Voltaire2]

2. Nazi harassed people, was tracked and hunted on twitter, and got punched in the face.

Story now makes more sense.

[obamanut2012]

4. Good -- always punch the Nazi stalking folks when you can

Just like Captain America! It is patriotic.

[shenmue]

6. Yay

[Stuart G]

7. Imagine this...for a moment...everything exactly the same as this story depicts..except...

it is 1957, not 2017....say 60 years ago ...sometimes in the mid 1950s....12 years after the end of WWII..

If ..., and I say if............anyone had the nerve to wear an armband then, with the stark memory of WWII still around, and vets from that war around everywhere...the armband person would have been beaten to death..Now that ain't pretty, and Ammendment I....assures all in this country "free speech"..but that symbol, his armband, probably would have evoked major response in the mid 50s..

Now....if this jerk, had done this in Moscow..today...he would be beaten to death..no doubt about it. The memories of WWII are stark and real. Nazis and the German invasion killed 30 million in the old Soviet Union..or was it 35 million...Stalin didn't count...