As Donald Trump prepared to take the stage in Grand Rapids, his first rally since an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, white supremacists, some of whom voiced support for the former president, were preparing to demonstrate in Howell. One group chanted “Heil Hitler” during a march Saturday, July 20, that lasted about half an hour, according to city officials. There were about a dozen participants, with faces covered and signs in hand, gathered on the lawn of the Livingston County Historic Courthouse. The demonstrators marched down Grand River Avenue to the lawn of the Howell Carnegie District Library before a library board member confronted them and told them to leave. They proceeded to their cars while being monitored by the Howell Police Department, which confirmed several of the demonstrators came from outside the community, including Saginaw and Macomb counties. “Although we recognize their right to free speech, these demonstrators do not reflect the values of the Howell community,” the city wrote a statement, adding it joins the Livingston Diversity Council and Howell Area Chamber of Commerce in “(standing) united in condemning the group’s racist ideology.” (…) A second demonstration, which saw participants waving flags with a swastika, the term “KKK” and other antisemitic messaging, took place on the I-96 and Latson Road overpass on Saturday, according to photos and video posted in a community Facebook group. It was not immediately clear whether the demonstrators were the same as those who marched downtown. In a video, the demonstrators repeatedly chanted: “We love Hitler. We love Trump.” The photos include a person dressed in all-black who appears to be giving the Nazi salute.
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