Residents of Lincoln Heights, Ohio, have organized armed guards after a neo-Nazi march and the spread of Ku Klux Klan leaflets rocked the Cincinnati suburb.

On Feb. 7, a Uhaul van full of neo-Nazis gathered in the predominantly Black Cincinnati suburb of Lincoln Heights. They wore masks and carried guns as they called residents racist slurs. The group of white supremacists also waved flags with red swastikas on a highway overpass.

Nazis, a group of locals decided to take matters into their own hands to form an armed watch group in the town of Lincoln Heights, Ohio, The Washington Post reported. Visitors can see men of the newly formed Lincoln Heights Safety and Watch Program sporting masks and body armor,

Residents of Lincoln Heights, Ohio, a Black-majority town in the suburbs of Cincinnati, have formed armed watches after neo-Nazis recently marched close by and after fliers from the Ku Klux Klan began appearing in town.

For the first time, the mayor of Evendale and its police chief spoke out in defense of officers' actions that day. Several investigations have been opened into the police response.