Police and court officers yesterday forcibly evicted the local Nazis from a bookstore they operated on the city’s south-west area. Several hundred bystanders in the largely working class area chanted “get the Nazis out” as the police broke the store door open and began removing its contents.
The eviction came after the building’s owner, Eddy S. Bullock Jr., obtained a court order on the grounds that he had leased the store to William Russell, a leader of the Detroit National Socialist Movement, for use as a printing shop but no printing had taken place.
Ever since the store opened late last year as a Nazi bookstore it has been the subject of demonstrations by Jewish, labor, verterans and other groups. Police found in the store yesterday several rifles and baseball bats, several bags of what appeared to be cement mix and thousands of sheets of anti-Black and anti-Jewish literature.
Paul Boatin, local president of Italian Americans for Good Government and chairman of the Labor, Community, Interfaith Council Against the Nazis, a coalition group which had urged the closing of the bookstore, declared: “We serve notice on the Nazi storm troopers that wherever they go in the metropolitan area, we will be there to oppose them.”
Gary Williams, a 25-year-old factory worker, complained about the Nazis trying to get young children to distribute their anti-Black and anti-Semitic literature by paying them small amounts of money. “Anybody that pushes this on children is no good.” he was reported as saying.
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