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http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=3983166

TOLEDO (AP) -- A crowd that gathered to protest a planned march Saturday by a white supremacist group turned violent, throwing baseball-sized rocks at police and vandalizing vehicles. Two hours after authorities called off the march, 150 officers in helicopters and cruisers and on foot, bicycles and horses continued to chase bands of youths. Officers wearing gas masks fired tear gas canisters and flash-bang devices designed to stun suspects, only to see the groups reappear nearby.

Around 1:45 p.m., police in riot gear stood a short distance from a crowd of at least 100 people in an apparent stalemate. Someone in the crowd threw rocks at a passing pickup truck. Police Chief Mike Navarre said officers had a report of a man shot in the area, but they had not found a victim or a gunman. No other injuries had been reported, Navarre said.

At least two dozen members of the Roanoke, Va.-based National Socialist Movement, which calls itself "America's Nazi Party," gathered at a city park just before noon and were to march under police protection. Organizers of the march said they were demonstrating against black gangs that they said were harassing white residents in the neighborhood.

Violence broke out about one-quarter of a mile away from the park along the planned one-mile route. Keith White, a black resident, criticized city officials for initially allowing the march. "They let them come here and expect this not to happen?" said White, 29.