Whitmer kidnap evidence shows accused plotters shooting, threatening, Tasing

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(Detroit News) Photos and videos released by federal prosecutors Friday showed members of an alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer firing weapons, threatening to kill law-enforcement officers and testing an 800,000-volt Taser that was supposed to be used to subdue Michigan's highest-ranking politician.

The videos and photos are evidence that helped convince a federal magistrate judge to order five of the accused plotters to stand trial following an FBI investigation that revealed a broader plot to kidnap the governor and spark a civil war. In all, 14 people have been charged with crimes in state and federal court, including members and associates of an obscure militia, the Wolverine Watchmen.

The evidence released Friday shows accused plotters training at remote camps and surveilling Whitmer's vacation home in northern Michigan. .......(more)

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/10/17/evidence-shows-accused-whitmer-plotters-shooting-threatening-tasing/3693059001/

[exboyfil]

1. And yet the sheriff in Barry County is still in place

He who characterized this as a citizen's arrest.

[Squinch]

2. All this because she said they should wear a mask during a pandemic.