LANSING, May 1 — Demonstrators, including some carrying guns, entered the capitol building in the US state of Michigan yesterday and demanded the Democratic governor lift strict coronavirus lockdown orders, as some lawmakers reportedly donned bulletproof vests. Dozens of demonstrators crowded the...
A protester yells at Michigan State Police at the state capitol in Lansing, Michigan. April 30, 2020. — Reuters pic
State police, wearing masks, blocked them from entering. None of the protesters appeared to be wearing masks. More protesters could be seen outside carrying signs, including one depicting Governor Gretchen Whitmer as Adolf Hitler. “We believe that every American and every Michigander has the right to work to support our families, to travel freely, to gather for religious worship and for other purposes, to gather in protest of our government and to direct our own medical care.”
On April 16 around 3,000 protesters, some of them also armed, descended on Lansing for “Operation Gridlock,” causing a massive traffic jam around the capital building.
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