‘Olympic Nazi’: Fans Outraged After Spectator Gives Alleged Nazi Salute to Black Stewards
- Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:36am by
Billy Hallowell
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A Lithuanian basketball fan has caught the attention of international media after allegedly making a Nazi salute to two black Olympic stewards. Fans and nearby police officers noticed the man’s offensive gesture, which has caused outrage and claims that police should have acted to arrest or remove the individual responsible for the act.
The Daily Mail, who dubbed the man the “Olympic Nazi,” has more about the incident, which was caught on camera by a nearby English couple:
While the police insist they are investigating, anti-racism charities have reacted angrily because they believe officers should have acted quicker and removed the fan from the venue.
The man was part of a rowdy group of Lithuanian fans who stood on their feet chanting loudly throughout the first part of their country’s opening basketball game against Argentina on Sunday night.
Spectators said they appeared to have been drinking and had moved over to a section of the stand right alongside the opposing team’s fans.
The salute apparently followed a request by the two stewards, who purportedly approached with police officers. They had asked the rowdy group to sit down, so that people sitting behind them could both see and enjoy the game. The purportedly racist salute then followed.
Witnesses claim that the stewards remained calm, professional and level-headed throughout the ordeal. But some lamented the fact that the police didn’t remove the man or do anything following what they interpreted to be a racist gesture.
Ged Grebby, the head of the anti-racism campaign Show Racism the Red Card, believes that the man should have been thrown out for his actions. According to the Daily Mail, Grebby thinks the police failed to act.
“It is a criminal offense. We can’t just let things like this go. It is the kind of behavior that they should act upon immediately. We encourage the police to take action now,” he said.
This is the second alleged Hitler salute to hit the 2012 Olympics. The Mirror has more:
Just two days earlier, a German Olympic official caused outrage after appearing to give a Nazi salute during the opening ceremony.
Walther Tröger was caught on camera with his arm extended in what appeared to be the gesture used by Adolf Hitler in the 1940s.
However, Germans defended the honorary member of the International Olympic Committee, pointing out that the Nazi salute traditionally used the right arm, whereas Mr Tröger gestured with his left.
Do you think the police should have removed or arrested the first individual who allegedly used the gesture against the stewards? Let us know in the comments section, below.
(H/T: Daily Mail)
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Comments (79)
nonliberal
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 10:11amThe thought police run rampant over there. Who really cares if the guy held up his arm unless he hit someone with it? He could be giving the guy the finger just as easy, and even though it’s rude and distasteful, it’s nothing to be arrested over.
Report Post »ginger100
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 11:15amI could be wrong but I believe the torch relay began with the nazi, I find that offensive since it started with them. But who cares what I think, I’m just one guy.
Report Post »circleDwagons
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 12:00pmWe must ban arms
Report Post »Voteman
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 12:52pmFunny @CIRCLEDWAGONS Yes we Must……..
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 10:07amWhat I take away from this incident is that freedom of speech is not allowed in England. We American have always felt a certain afinity towards England because they were Democraticly run and held the same values as Americans. That is not the case anymore. All freedom is under attack.
Report Post »The time is coming where we americans will have to watch every word we say, post, or write, in fear that some “Anti-Racism Czar” might show up at your door.
At some point the patriots will have to come together behind a new breed of politician.
I will be doing my part today in Texas, voting for Curz, the TEA party candidate over the RINO that all main stream Repubs, like Perry are sponsering.
AmericanFightingMan1
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 1:01pmIt’s already here. Saying anything that might remotely be considered “anti-gay“ or ”anti-black” and boom, you’re done in the U.S. The tyranny of the modern Left, ie., the modern marxists.
Report Post »JesterJay
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 10:07amI was tring to make friends….I wanted to flag him down a beer….. a german one. What thats how we wave “hi”?!?
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:52amhe didn’t hurt anyone, wow Europe is communist.
Report Post »edcoil
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 10:02amIn the first photo, the guy behind was doing the same thing.
Report Post »JesterJay
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 10:16amNazis are a sore spot in the UK to this day.
Report Post »PCKaz
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:36amI also find it ironic and morbidly amusing that (given the Nazis reputation for detail and precision) the Germans were sure to point out that the Nazi salute was given with the other hand…
You just can’t make this stuff up.
Report Post »grudgywoof
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:56amI think he should be executed! How dare he hurt their feelings!
Report Post »Ballot_Box_Revolution
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 10:07amIt was the proper hand. http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=nazi+salute&FORM=HDRSC2 see Hitler himself.
I don’t like the actions of the guy, but he didn’t harm anyone. Maybe some feelings got hurt. BOOHOO we need to stop being so sensitive. At least now people know who he is, and shouldn’t invite him to their homes, unless they have the same ideology……
Report Post »kadster01
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:03pm@BALLOT_BOX_REVOLUTION
What do you mean it was the proper hand? He saluted with his left hand. All the pics of Hitler in your link show him saluting with the right hand.
Report Post »JesterJay
Posted on August 1, 2012 at 4:23amLOL Gremans are like “you’re doing it all wrong”
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:35amFreedom of speech is under serious attack in Europe. Unless you are a muslim, then you can incite rebellion and murder and you will not be touched.
In Germany, a woman was hauled into court for what she said in a private email (yes, you guessed it, she was criticising muslims).
In France, muslims openly flout the law and say and publish the most vile threats with impunity. They actively call for the murder of their detractors, which are sometimes acted apon, and are scarcely criticised. Everybody else goes to jail for even the slightest offence.
I think that the most likely explanation of this nazi salute is that it was in response to being told to sit down by officials.
Even if it wasn’t, this is free speech in free countries.
Europe is losing its freedoms and their citizens, in their cowardly silence, are complicit.
Report Post »strewth_cobber
Posted on August 1, 2012 at 6:17amG’day, NZKIWI, and all.
You’re not bloody wrong, mate!
People should always have the right of freedom of speech.
Political correctness, Australia, law known as the Racial Vilification Bill, is only another means of denying people the right to tell the truth. If they do, it is at risk of incarceration/penalties. This in a ‘free’ country? No wonder the Nazis and commies went around burning all the books (which revealed truths) to prevent people from learning about these evil isms – even fiction novels were destroyed.
Check out ‘The Two Dannys’, Pastors of Catch the Fire Ministries – tried in Victorian court for ‘inciting hatred and violence’ against muslims – for enlightening parishioners on the Koran (since most Australians were ignorant of Islam until the September 11 terror in New York. Never mind all the terrorism through 70s/80s and so on [sarc.]) Surprisingly, it was the RC Church that were the legal representatives (lawyers) for the complainants! Then, again…
Bar stards wouldn’t even commemorate, with 60-seconds silence, 40 years since the Black September of Munich 1972 games! One wonders, if the victims hadn’t been Israeli, would they have commemorated that sad occasion? Wicked.
The Crusades (300 years worth) were taught in history class at high school, however, no mention of (nearly 1400 years) jihad/Islamic conquests. Was that deliberately left out of the curricululum?
Perhaps the Lithuanians were just saying “Hi” to the Saxe
Report Post »barber2
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:33amYou can tell by the group he hangs with that they are a real class act ! Notice the wigs ?
Report Post »saranda
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 10:59amChange the colors to red, white and blue and you would simply say they are excited fans. I have seen much more embarrassing wigs, hats, etc on fans from many countries but mostly America.
Report Post »cristo52
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:31am“While the police insist they are investigating, anti-racism charities have reacted angrily because they believe officers should have acted quicker and removed the fan from the venue.”
Wake up folks, this sort of thing happens every day in England at every football match in every city.
Report Post »JQuentinEvermann
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:42amIt is obvious he was calling the police Nazis for telling them to sit down. But if this was an actual “Nazi salute”, he should obviously be executed after a lengthy jail sentence. Moving your hand or arm in a certain way, people feeling feelings they don’t want to feel, emoting emotions they don’t want to emote…obviously this man should be sent to jail, his hand did something people didn’t want his hand to see. God forbid he had lifted his foot toward the Greek team.
People are idiots. To actually call this criminal should be criminal. People have a right to be stupid. This is clearly the last Olympics.
Report Post »PCKaz
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:29amJust because the stewards happened to be black, doesn’t make this racist. It‘s pretty obvious that the ’Nazi salute’ was in reference to the stewards telling them to sit down and behave themselves. So this is idiotic, for sure. Tasteless, most definitely. Poor judgement, absoluely. But how many drunken sports fans are noted for great judgement and decorum. Ironic that those offended by a “Nazi salute” want people arrested for saying / doing something that offends…Welcome to Socialism.
As a side note, if this idiot had any idea about what happened in Lithuania during Hitler’s occupation, he might not be so quick to bring that up…
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:23amAh, NO! Obviously the guy was reacting to what he experienced as a fascist moment by the officials, who happened to be black. Why the heck does the race card get played anytime someone happens to be black.
I am sooooooo sick of this crap; fomented by the Divider-In-Chief all over the world. How embarrassing.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:19amIn a nation full of soccer hooligans, they act offended over this? We don’t know if this guy is giving an offensive gesture to another team, or to an officiating referee in a mocking tone. Back to the hooligans, having personally experienced a single bus load of them at an accident scene in Germany, they are far worse then this. And, Britain ships them all over Europe to games by caravans of buses.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:37amI agree, RJ. It’s a storm in a teacup.
Report Post »InVinoVeritas
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:18am“I go down to Speaker‘s Corner I’m thunderstruck
They got free speech, tourists, police in trucks
Two men say they’re Jesus one of them must be wrong
There’s a protest singer singing a protest song – he says
‘they wanna have a war to keep us on our knees
They wanna have a war to keep their factories
They wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese
They wanna have a war to stop Industrial Disease
They’re pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind
They wanna sap your energy incarcerate your mind
They give you Rule Brittania, gassy beer, page three
Two weeks in Espana and Sunday striptease’
Meanwhile the first Jesus says ‘I’d cure it soon
Abolish monday mornings and friday afternoons’
The other one‘s on a hunger strike he’s dying by degrees
How come Jesus gets Industrial Disease”
Dire Straits – Industrial Disease
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:28amPicked up on that song right away. Bought Love Over Gold when it first came out.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvfa8xWMyoQ
Constructionist
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:14amThe claims of racism seem a bit thin. Wouldn‘t a group of people described as being ’rowdy‘ maybe react with a Nazi salute to the ’authority’ demanding that they settle down as an expression of distaste for perceived overbearing authority? That seems like a more likely motivation than desperately trying to make some Nazi/Black connection.
Report Post »Ivehadenoughtofthisgovenmentcrap
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:13amStupid is as stupid dose….
Report Post »JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:59amAre we really worried about what goes on in the U.K. or even Europe for that matter? Come on Blaze, start some real reporting here, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »gulph
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:58amI thought people have the right to speak and express themselves in Britain. Maybe thats only on Speakers Square. Great country.
Report Post »chershaw8
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:58amLooks like his right arm to me……and it looks like the guy in the wig is ready to flick a booger….
Report Post »3hounddogs
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:58amI think it’s hilarious. What’s the big deal?
Report Post »hillbillyinny
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:56amWhy do you think the stands are being kept empty? GB knew they couldn’t control the various groups all gathered in one place with the anomosity that is AROUND THE WORLD!
Safety said, “Don’t let the public in.” Reality said, “We have to, but we don’t want to”! When reality wins, “stuff” happens and in these times that stuff may not be what they want to show in international television–it’s too real!!!
Lord, help our world, and especially help our Nation to honor You!
Time could be getting very short. . .
Report Post »wisehiney
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:55amThere they go again. He was directing that salute toward the “Nazi” cops for ordering him to sit down. The powers will accuse you of anything to bring you to heel.
Report Post »AnglePark
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:12amI was going to post the same thing. This guy’s not the Olympic Nazi — he’s poking fun at the Olympic Nazis who are trying to dictate how his group must act. But that doesn‘t fit today’s narrative, and everthing a white person does or says is racist, whether a minority is involved or not.
They could have labeled it highly inappropriate, but that doesn’t move the agenda forward.
Report Post »Edohiguma
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:54amPlease note that this is what get‘s people’s panties in a twist. The UK, where these “games” are being held, is the place where roughly 2,000 girls every year get genitally mutilated. The media and everybody else ignores it, because it might cause “offense” with those doing it. But some Lithuanian raising his right hand, that’s the big atrocity.
Also let me add that there is no free speech in the EU. If you deny the Holocaust, you get dragged into court and then into jail. Now, you have to be a complete lunatic to deny it, but in a democracy you have the right to be a lunatic. This is further proven by the trials of Geert Wilders and Susanne Winter, who were dragged into court for simply saying their opinion. Meanwhile the European court for human rights (or whatever it’s called) stated that the German practice of high security lock-up for really bad criminals (mass murderers, etc) violates the human rights of said criminals.
There is an increasing number of people who call the EU fittingly EUSSR.
Report Post »eric6161
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 5:24pmDemocracy does NOT equal freedom. Democracy is merely two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner. Thank God America has NEVER been a democracy but a Constitutional Republic. Democracies are for the communists and democrats… it’s the tyranny of the 51%.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:50amIt’s a criminal offense in the U.K and we’re getting closer to the UK with our so called hate speech laws which are all unconstitutional.As for the drunk doing the Seig Heil,he’s an A hole and the world is full of those.
Report Post »historyguy48
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:56amWhat’s a constitution? Are you referring to that piece of paper Dear Leader used to wipe his a–?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:14am@Progressive: Agreed.
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 11:51amIt’s not a criminal offence (note that’s how you spell it in the grown up world), no-one was arrested (or will be) and Britain is far more free than your sad little world (inclduing freedom from fear and falling ill).
Report Post »Regressive small minded masochistic little people like you really need to get a life. Rant over – I feel better now.
progressiveslayer
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:35pmJackoffofhearts Your reading comprehension sucks you idiot,read the article,it is a criminal offense in the UK and I spelled it correctly you didn‘t because you’re stupid now F OFF.
Report Post »eric6161
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 5:16pmLatin offens is the root of the word ‘offense’ or as some British would have it ‘offence.’ Middle English used both spellings.
Report Post »Freedom from sickness isn’t possible in this world. Some, pretending to want fairness would rob the worker of his freedom. This is the epitome of greed and evil. Fairness is an urban myth. It’s not fair that some have hair and others are bald, some work and others are lazy, and that half of all school children have below average IQs.
aggiebrewer
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:50amI think he is saying “THAT GUY ON THE COURT IS THIS TALL”. :)
Report Post »Landon410
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:44amthese guys are tolal aholes, I mean, who stands and cheers at a sporting event?
Report Post »syjere
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:41amWhat is an ‘alleged’ Nazi salute? If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck…so, yeah. I don’t care about it, but when I want to say “God” or ‘I’m a Catholic‘ I don’t want a bunch of heathens calling me racist, either. Freedom of speech is a two way speech…like it or not.
Report Post »aggiebrewer
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:49amthere is no freedom of speech in Europe…
Report Post »eric6161
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:48pmLooks like a “Roman salute” or “Bellamy salute” which was the civilian salute in the U.S. from 1778-1934. FDR changed it in 1942.
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