When the leadership of the National Socialist Movement planned a counterprotest on June 8 of the Motor City Pride Festival in Detroit, they probably hoped for a better turnout. But according to the Anti-Defamation League, the NSM only managed to draw 10 members, sourced from five different states: Michigan, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Tennessee.

Though Detroit Police Chief James Craig numbered the socialists’ strength at 15 members, his department took the group seriously. WWJ Radio reported that the department intercepted intelligence that the National Socialist Movement intended to spark what Craig called in a Monday news conference “a Charlottesville No. 2” at the Detroit event.

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