COLUMBUS, Ohio — The White House is joining Columbus and state leaders in condemning a group of neo-Nazis who paraded around the Short North Arts District over the weekend. Police safety dispatchers received multiple 911 calls Saturday afternoon about a group of people marching in the Short North.

Video showed nearly a dozen people wearing black pants, shirts and head coverings and red masks covering their mouths marching down the street. Three of the people were carrying black flags with red swastikas.

Ohio officials have denounced a small contingent of neo-Nazis who paraded Saturday afternoon through a Columbus neighborhood – waving flags featuring swastikas and shouting a racist slur – in the latest public demonstration by White nationalists in recent years across the United States.

The president, Ohio’s governor and Columbus’s mayor have all spoken out against the incident, in which people clad in black waved flags with swastikas.

A group of Black leaders and locals marched through Columbus, Ohio, in a unity rally Sunday, one day after neo-Nazis walked through the same streets carrying Nazi flags and chanting racial slurs and white nationalist slogans.

On November 18, 2024, Columbus, Ohio, witnessed a disturbing event as a group of neo-Nazis paraded through a neighborhood, waving swastika flags and shouting racist slurs. This demonstration has sparked widespread condemnation from local officials and community leaders,