Neo-Nazis: We'll be back
A neo-Nazi march through the city has been postponed now that the group’s state leader has been suspended because of an outstanding warrant for his arrest.
The controversial march was scheduled for Friday in the city of Cincinnati.
But plans were canceled over the weekend after the American National Socialist Workers Party said it learned that Justin Boyer is a wanted man in the state of Washington, said national leader Bill White. The warrant for Boyer’s arrest was issued more than a year ago on allegations of domestic assault.
White said he learned that police here intended to arrest Boyer at the march.
Boyer could not be reached for comment Sunday.
“The city was planning to use this to embarrass us,” White said in a telephone interview on Sunday.
White said the march would go on, but just not on Friday, and without Boyer.
Boyer had been a Seattle-area leader of the large neo-Nazi group, the National Socialist Movement, prior to moving back to Ohio less than a year ago. Here, he became the Ohio leader of the American National Socialist Workers Party, a splinter neo-Nazi group now headed by White.
According to the new group’s Web site, White, Boyer and 19 other state and unit leaders of the National Socialist Movement left the group in mid-July because of scandal involving another leader. White said that leader had a checkered past, patronized convicted sex offenders and had been in a 15-year relationship with a man in a bi-racial marriage.
“We try and hold ourselves to a different standard of behavior,” White said.
When asked about the accusations of domestic violence against Boyer, his now-suspended Ohio leader, White said that he did not know the details and wanted to see how it played out in the court system before commenting on the behavior. White said he conducted criminal background checks on its leaders and the warrant for Boyer never surfaced.
Boyer lives north of Dayton, White said. He is now replaced by Kenny Fields, White said.
White did not know when the March in Cincinnati would take place. He said that unlike in early April, when the group applied for and was granted a city permit to march in Over-the-Rhine more than two weeks ahead of the planned event, his group will no longer give the city a heads up by asking for a permit.
Relations between the group and the city have been tenuous since Boyer received the permit in early April. The April 20 march was to coincide with the 118th anniversary of the birth of Adolph Hitler. On April 6, the day the initial report of the march appeared in The Cincinnati Enquirer, City Manager Milton Dohoney revoked the neo-Nazi’s group’s permit and set off a chain-reaction of threats of lawsuits by the group. The group was told it could march, but not in the Over-the-Rhine, which is a predominately black neighborhood.
White said his group will march where it likes. The same group appeared last October in a Toledo neighborhood and sparked rioting. White said he feared rioting in Cincinnati.
“I don’t really care what their reasons are for not coming. I’m just glad they are not coming,” said Cincinnati City Councilwoman Laketa Cole, who led the recent charge to create a city ordinance that would have prohibited marches and parades by groups that use “fighting words.” The version that was recently enacted also requires groups to pay for police officers, firefighters and other city services required for its events.
White vowed on Sunday the group did not intend to stay away from Cincinnati for long.
“We do not have a specified date except for soon - which could mean Saturday and it could mean June,” White said of a replacement march.
A neo-Nazi march through the city has been postponed now that the group’s state leader has been suspended because of an outstanding warrant for his arrest.
The controversial march was scheduled for Friday in the city of Cincinnati.
But plans were canceled over the weekend after the American National Socialist Workers Party said it learned that Justin Boyer is a wanted man in the state of Washington, said national leader Bill White. The warrant for Boyer’s arrest was issued more than a year ago on allegations of domestic assault.
White said he learned that police here intended to arrest Boyer at the march.
Boyer could not be reached for comment Sunday.
“The city was planning to use this to embarrass us,” White said in a telephone interview on Sunday.
White said the march would go on, but just not on Friday, and without Boyer.
Boyer had been a Seattle-area leader of the large neo-Nazi group, the National Socialist Movement, prior to moving back to Ohio less than a year ago. Here, he became the Ohio leader of the American National Socialist Workers Party, a splinter neo-Nazi group now headed by White.
According to the new group’s Web site, White, Boyer and 19 other state and unit leaders of the National Socialist Movement left the group in mid-July because of scandal involving another leader. White said that leader had a checkered past, patronized convicted sex offenders and had been in a 15-year relationship with a man in a bi-racial marriage.
“We try and hold ourselves to a different standard of behavior,” White said.
When asked about the accusations of domestic violence against Boyer, his now-suspended Ohio leader, White said that he did not know the details and wanted to see how it played out in the court system before commenting on the behavior. White said he conducted criminal background checks on its leaders and the warrant for Boyer never surfaced.
Boyer lives north of Dayton, White said. He is now replaced by Kenny Fields, White said.
White did not know when the March in Cincinnati would take place. He said that unlike in early April, when the group applied for and was granted a city permit to march in Over-the-Rhine more than two weeks ahead of the planned event, his group will no longer give the city a heads up by asking for a permit.
Relations between the group and the city have been tenuous since Boyer received the permit in early April. The April 20 march was to coincide with the 118th anniversary of the birth of Adolph Hitler. On April 6, the day the initial report of the march appeared in The Cincinnati Enquirer, City Manager Milton Dohoney revoked the neo-Nazi’s group’s permit and set off a chain-reaction of threats of lawsuits by the group. The group was told it could march, but not in the Over-the-Rhine, which is a predominately black neighborhood.
White said his group will march where it likes. The same group appeared last October in a Toledo neighborhood and sparked rioting. White said he feared rioting in Cincinnati.
“I don’t really care what their reasons are for not coming. I’m just glad they are not coming,” said Cincinnati City Councilwoman Laketa Cole, who led the recent charge to create a city ordinance that would have prohibited marches and parades by groups that use “fighting words.” The version that was recently enacted also requires groups to pay for police officers, firefighters and other city services required for its events.
White vowed on Sunday the group did not intend to stay away from Cincinnati for long.
“We do not have a specified date except for soon - which could mean Saturday and it could mean June,” White said of a replacement march.

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