Meet the Crusader Knight Who Fights Communists at Protests

Zachary Schwartz
14 min readDec 8, 2020
Photo credit: Steve Wagner

The man dressed as a crusader knight lifts his megaphone. “C’mon you agitators. Get moving!” He shouts at a group of around fifty protestors and the portly 19-year-old, Juan, leading them over the bridge. A rear wall of Cleveland police inch them along.

One goggled officer bikes to the front. “We don’t need you here! Fucking pigs! Don’t touch me!” Snaps Juan. The…

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Zachary Schwartz

Taiwanese-American writer from Cleveland, Ohio. Words in Rolling Stone, Playboy, Vice, and Countere Magazine.