{"id":297080,"date":"2025-08-04T22:34:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T22:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/concord-police-investigate-altercation-during-march\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T22:34:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T22:34:31","slug":"concord-police-investigate-altercation-during-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/concord-police-investigate-altercation-during-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Concord police investigate altercation during march"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kubrick.htvapps.com\/vidthumb\/4954218f-4e80-48b3-8596-e583847db1fa\/2d1019b5-87ec-44d0-af13-cdf8c4acd35e.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong class=\"dateline\">CONCORD, N.H. \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Police are continuing to investigate an altercation that took place over the weekend while a group carrying a flag with a swastika on it marched through Concord.<\/p>\n<p>Concord police said they&#8217;re reviewing several videos of the incident, in which an altercation broke out Saturday afternoon between the group and a bystander.<\/p>\n<p><!-- article\/blocks\/side-floater --><\/p>\n<p><!-- article\/blocks\/side-floater --><\/p>\n<p>The group of about 20 people dressed in red shirts, wore masks and carried a flag with a swastika on it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would say they&#8217;re cowards because they had the masks on,&#8221; said Jonathan George, of Concord. &#8220;They couldn&#8217;t even go out without that. I don&#8217;t think Concord needs that right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&gt;&gt; Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=109350X1567034&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.apple.com%2Fus%2Fapp%2Fwmur-news-9-breaking-news%2Fid504646663%3Fign-mpt%3Duo%253D6&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wmur.com%2Farticle%2Fconcord-altercation-march-swastika-8425%2F65596675&amp;xcust=undefined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.hearst.android.wmur&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Google Play<\/a> <strong>&lt;&lt;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police said they&#8217;re trying to identify everyone who was involved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was shocked,&#8221; said Rabbi Robin Nafshi of Temple Beth Jacob. &#8220;Why would a Nazi group just come into Concord?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The presence of the group has rattled many, especially members of Concord&#8217;s Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to recognize that there are people who are trying to call attention to themselves and send a message that is not welcome anywhere,&#8221; Nafshi said.<\/p>\n<p>The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation&#8217;s largest Muslim civil rights group, is also condemning the group&#8217;s message.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even bigots have the right to free speech, but everyone else, the vast majority of Americans, has the right to speak out against their hatred and bigotry,&#8221; said Ibrahim Hooper, national communications director for CAIR.<\/p>\n<p>Those who call Concord home said the group is not representative of their community. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Freedom of speech, but don&#8217;t force your beliefs on other people,&#8221; said Laurie Weston, of Concord. &#8220;Do it peacefully.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Concord police are asking anyone with additional video of the march or the altercation to come forward as they work to identify those involved.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmur.com\/article\/concord-altercation-march-swastika-8425\/65596675\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONCORD, N.H. \u2014 Police are continuing to investigate an altercation that took place over the weekend while a group carrying a flag with a swastika<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}