Video showed nearly a dozen people wearing black pants, shirts and head coverings and red masks covering their mouths marching down the street. Three of the people were carrying black flags with red swastikas.

The demonstration in Columbus on Saturday, part of a recent pattern of white supremacist incidents in the country, was condemned by officials around the state.

Ohio officials have denounced a small contingent of neo-Nazis who paraded Saturday afternoon through a Columbus neighborhood – waving flags featuring swastikas and shouting a racist slur – in the latest public demonstration by White nationalists in recent years across the United States.

Fallout from a neo-Nazi demonstration in Columbus has reached the White House, with President Biden releasing a statement condemning the extremist group that waved Nazi flags and chanted racial slurs.

The president, Ohio’s governor and Columbus’s mayor have all spoken out against the incident, in which people clad in black waved flags with swastikas.

Columbus has been working toward this commission for several years, but the timing is significant, said Council member Lourdes Barroso de Padilla.

Columbus, Ohio, police have issued a statement after a dozen people dressed as Nazis marched and carried swastika flags.