Accused Whitmer kidnapping plotters attended BLM rally to protect protesters from police, attorney says
Updated Mar 05, 2021;
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Armed Michigan “militia” members, some who are accused in the alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, attended a May 30 Black Lives Matter rally in Detroit. They were on the protesters’ side, the FBI says.
While right-wing, anti-government movements are often accused of exhibiting racist tendencies, court testimony on three Wolverine Watchmen members charged with terrorism in the Whitmer case exhibited support for multiracial causes.
FBI Special Agent Henrik Impola, who’s testified over the last two days in a Jackson County preliminary hearing, questioned whether the motive was to defend protesters or to attack police if violence erupted.