Once deriding Black Lives Matter protesters as “looking for trouble,” the president applauded the largely white crowd storming Michigan’s capitol to demonstrate against social distancing.
This latest protest, the “American Patriot Rally,” was a repeat performance of the 4,000 demonstrators who shut down the capitol’s surrounding streets in a mid-April rally that organizers namedWhitmer called that act of disobedience “really unfortunate” and raised health concerns, saying a lot of people showed up “not wearing masks,” “not staying six feet apart,” and “handing things to children barehanded.
The president got his wish on Thursday. Hundreds of angry protesters again showed up to Lansing wearing pro-Trump paraphernalia and flashing signs accusing Whitmer of “Killing Small Businesses,” calling for her impeachment, and threatening her with violence. One sign read, “Tyrants get the rope.”A number of protesters open-carried semiautomatic rifles, with some making their way into the capitol quarters and brandishing their weapons outside the door of Whitmer’s office.
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