Hate, Anger, and Hitler’s legacy is alive and well. White supremacists staged a march on Saturday in Toledo, Ohio, under police protection, and a crowd that protested it started pelting the officers with rocks and bottles, vandalized property and set fire to a bar, leading to more than 60 people arrested and scores of police officers injured before calm was restored. The actual arrests could have easily quadrupled save only that there weren’t enough enforcers on hand, leading many residents to blame the mayor asking why he was protecting the white supremacists.

Mayor Jack Ford issued a state of emergency setting an 8 PM curfew over the weekend, and asked support from the Highway Patrol, stating that the situation is exactly what the neo-Nazis had actually wanted when it planned the march, and predictably got what they wanted. These were said to be mostly gang members who wanted to settle scores and used the event as an opportunity to do so.

Ford stated that the city hadn’t given the neo-Nazi group a permit to march in the streets but technically, couldn’t stop them from walking on the sidewalks.

Sadly, it brings to the surface the opposite side of a popular adage, that if there’s a will, there’s a way.