Fellow shoppers and staff at a Walmart in Marshall, Minnesota, were disgusted to see a couple in the store on Saturday wearing masks emblazoned with Nazi swastikas.
They were spotted on the same day that Minnesota’s mask mandate came into force.
Raphaela Mueller, the vicar of a southwest Minnesota parish, took a video of the couple and posted it to Facebook. It has prompted thousands of comments and shares.
In the video, a man confronts the couple and tells them, “You’re sick. Yeah, you’re sick. You have an illness. You can’t be American and wear that mask. We literally had a war about this.”
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The woman wearing the mask gives him the finger, before strolling over to respond: “If you vote for Biden, you’re going to be in Nazi Germany,” she says. “That’s what it’s gonna be like. … You aren’t getting it. I’m not a Nazi. I’m trying to tell you, if you vote for Biden this is what we’re gonna have.”
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Mueller, who was born in Germany, said in a caption accompanying the video, “I was born and raised in Germany, and I grew up hearing about my great-grandmother who fought in the underground against the first wave of Nazis in the 1930s and 40s. Let me make this abundantly clear once and for all – the swastika is a hate symbol and you do not fly the flag, you do not wear the symbol anywhere on your body, you do not use or defend this symbol, ever. End of story.”
Mueller told the Star Tribune: “My immediate physical reaction was nausea and wanting to cry, so I can’t imagine what that must feel like for other people who lost family members in the Holocaust.”
An estimated 6million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust, along with hundreds of thousands of others, including disabled people, gay people and members of the Romani community.
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Local news outlet KARE11 reported that police were called to the store on Saturday around noon after receiving complaints about the swastika-mask couple.
Following a request from the store, Marshall Police Department’s Sergeant Jason Buysse said his department issued a notice of trespass to a 59-year-old man and a 64-year-old woman. They have been warned they could be arrested if they return.
Among those to condemn the couple was Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz. He posted a tweet with a link to the Star Tribune report saying, “Disgraceful, plain and simple. Thank you to the bystanders who stood up to this unacceptable, hate-fueled behavior.”
Disgraceful, plain and simple. Thank you to the bystanders who stood up to this unacceptable, hate-fueled behavior.https://t.co/KaGfGFywuA
— Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) July 26, 2020
Cam
This is who Republicans are now. They’ll get exposed and claim they were misunderstood, but look, her wearing a brown shirt is no accident.
ThinkPIease
Cam, so I guess you are saying that the Democrats are all like murdered Derek Chauvin, a registered Democrat.
Cam
Sweetie, if you’re going to troll and pass out a lie, please try not to let it be about things that are easy to disprove. Both Chauvin and the head of Mn’s police union were at a Trump rally in “Cops for Trump” shirts.
But it’s cute how, after you stole Black Pegasus’s screename and got found out, you then stole this one and keep thinking you’re being subtle.
Nice try Boris.
jayceecook
LOL. He wasn’t a registered Dem. He actually wasn’t even a registered voter in Minnesota.
He *is* though a registered Republican in the state of Florida and possibly committed voter fraud. While he has property in the state, he was voting for FL elections while living in Minnesota. Because Chauvin presumably lived, worked and paid taxes in Minnesota during the 2016 and 2018 elections, he wasn’t eligible to vote in the state’s last two elections.
Try again.
Kangol2
@Cam and @Jayceecook, thank you! Voting fraudster and murderer Derek Chauvin was anything but a “registered Democrat”!
jayceecook
@Kangol2 He and his wife are also in trouble with the IRS because they underpaid their taxes. So he will have tax fraud charges on top of everything else!
Cam
@jayceecook and @Kangol2
Apparently they filed fraudulent taxes for 2014 and 2015 and NO taxes for 2016-19.
Apparently there is a contest for some MN cops to see just how many laws they can break.
Also, they apparently bought a $100,000 BMW registered it in FL, but it’s never been serviced there or been there. So I have 2 more questions. Where did he get the money for that car, and apparently doing this is some sort of well known scam.
Mister P
What’s important here is how many people are ignorant of the horrific atrocities committed by the Nazis. The swastika symbolizes the darkest and worst of humanity and these idiots trivialize it by making it into some stupid shit about not wearing a mask for public health.
Smith David
Welp….hate is trendy now so…..what can we expect. So sad.
Leash
As a german (where display of this flag is against the law btw): You are so dumb. The level of ignorance/disrespect towards survivors of this idiology is just… you’re dumb.