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This article is not great, but sadly was the best I could find.

Here's a quick TL:DR

This has been part of an ongoing and slowly escalating situation for around 2 weeks now.

The backstory is that a white cop shot 2 black men. A large group of Olympians have been very vocal about their opinions and a lot of hate has directed towards Olympia Police Department.

No one was standing with the police and defending their actions until a group of neo Nazi's (Volksfront? I think is what I've been hearing) decided to side up with the cops actions.

OPD has yet to issue a statement concerning the support their receiving, which has made people question their stance.

A few days ago, a screen shot from a stormfront thread started circulating, basically planning a meeting and protest of solidarity for the police on Saturday.

This I lead to a group of counter protesters consisting mainly of local punk kids forming to basically drive the Nazi's out of town.

From here I can only give second hand reports of what my friends have witnessed or reported.

1-2 vans with people from around Washington and Oregon met up and assembled downtown, they were shouting racist and Nazi rhetoric. Many were proudly sporting swastikas and iron crosses.

Shortly after they began there was a brawl in which someone lost teeth and a white supremacist was thrown through a store front window.

The nazis retreated but swore they would return. A general call went out for reinforcements from the pyrate punx and black Flagg anarchists.

Around 11:30-12:00, 3-5 vans full of men driving wrecklessly and shouting slurs and Nazi catchphrases were spotted driving through lacey heading downtown.

Now details get fuzzier because that's when a lot of my friends there left. So this is all just unconfirmed hearsay and scuttlebutt.

The nazis showed up with melee weapons like mag lights, baseball bats, table legs, knives and that sort of shit. The punks and anarchists were similarly armed.

There was a defense stand off on 4th ave. Someone reported seeing a Nazi 38th a handgun a block away. At one point someone came up an alley and started throwing rocks to provoke the crowd. But they got chased off.

There was some sporadic fighting here and there between the two factions, at least one white supremacist got his mag light confinscated in a scuffle.

I heard something about fireworks going off over the police scanner, I also heard reports of CS gas or flashbangs being used.

Eventually things calmed down and the crowd dispersed. However a group of about 50 kept patrol around the downtown area as the neo nazis had made threats to harm the bar crowd, particularly the patrons of a local gay bar who were throwing a drag night.

So about 50 stuck around to escort people safely to their cars and keep an eye on the situation.

And during this whole tense stand off the police were directing traffic away from the scene from a few blocks away.

Sorry for the novel and a half. But to answer your question. Yes, they were confirmed.

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