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Videos obtained by the Columbus Dispatch show neo-Nazis using pepper spray during a march in the Short North. On Saturday afternoon, a group of people dressed in black with red face masks marched down the sidewalk in the Short North, waving black flags with red swastikas. One member yelled racial slurs through a bullhorn, and witnesses said.

State and city leaders have renounced the group of masked men who marched in Columbus’ Short North neighborhood shouting racist slurs Saturday. Eyewitness accounts and police reports show the march was not a “peaceful” demonstration.