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Ayden Mitchell
Incredible scenes at Michigan Capitol as anti-lockdown protesters armed with rifles storm Senate gallery while lawmakers wearing BULLETPROOF VESTS vote against extending Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's state of emergency
Demonstrators gathered at Michigan's state Capitol Thursday to protest Gov Gretchen Whitmer's lockdown
Many people at the protest, including militia group members carrying firearms, stormed the Capitol building
Men held guns while waiting for state's House of Representatives to vote on Whitmer's state of emergency
Senators wore bulletproof vests in the House Chamber as protesters shouted from outside: 'Let us in!'
Ultimately, lawmakers denied the governor's request and passed a resolution authorizing the Speaker of the House to commence legal action, which will challenge the governor's actions during the pandemic
'American Patriot Rally' was was organized by Michigan United for Liberty, and drew in hundreds of people
Dominic Thomas
Lawmakers were seen wearing bulletproof vests as armed protesters stormed Michigan's Capitol in Lansing just moments before the state's House of Representatives denied Gov Gretchen Whitmer's request to extend her state of emergency.
Photos from inside the Michigan House Chamber showed elected officials wearing bulletproof vests while men holding guns stood above them.
'Directly above me, men with rifles yelling at us. Some of my colleagues who own bullet proof vests are wearing them. I have never appreciated our Sergeants-at-Arms more than today,' Sen Dayna Polehanki tweeted Thursday afternoon.
In Michigan, guns are permitted inside the state's Capitol as long as they are visible and carried with lawful intent.
Protesters, who weren't wearing masks, were seen yelling within inches of officers from the Michigan State Police.
Others were heard chanting: 'Let us in! Let us in!'
The 'American Patriot Rally' which was organized by Michigan United for Liberty, drew in hundreds of residents who carried pro-Trump banners and held anti-Whitmer signs while protesting outside of the Capitol.
Demonstrators began descending on the Capitol at 9am Thursday morning while lawmakers were trying to decide whether to extend Whitmer's state of emergency request for 28 more days.
Ultimately, the lawmakers denied the governor's request and passed a resolution authorizing the Speaker of the House to commence legal action, which will challenge the governor's actions during the pandemic. Whitmer is unable to veto the resolution.
Samuel Ward
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Oliver Rivera
>Happening: Americans take back their government
This isn't news, this is what the fuck should be happening on a daily basis. America let lefty faggots infiltrate their schools, hospitals and homes and now the SHTF. Perfect timing too.
Thomas Jenkins
Many of those gathered for the protest included militia group members carrying firearms and people holding up pro-Trump signs.
Most of them appeared to be ignoring state social-distancing guidelines as they clustered together within six feet of each other. Few people wore masks.
Michigan's directive, while stricter than most, has the same goal: to keep Americans safe from the coronavirus.
In the United States, more than 1 million people have been infected with the virus. The death toll increases each day and as of Thursday afternoon it surpassed 62,000. In Michigan, more than 3,600 people have died from the virus and more than 40,000 people have contracted the illness.
But nonetheless protests to open governments have erupted across the United States, with Thursday's rally occurring just a day after a Michigan judge sided with Whitmer in a lawsuit filed by plaintiffs who claimed her stay-at-home order violated their constitutional rights.
Court of Claims Judge Christopher M. Murray disagreed, saying that the plaintiffs' were not strong due to the severity of the pandemic.
Hudson Young
guns don't mean shit if you're not willing to use them. Might as well be holding clubs and pitchforks, it'll be about as effective vs the militarized police force.
Carson Jenkins
Murray wrote in the court order: 'Although the Court is painfully aware of the difficulties of living under the restrictions of these executive orders, those difficulties are temporary, while to those who contract the virus and cannot recover (and to their family members and friends), it is all too permanent.'
During Thursday's protest, Mike Detmer, a Republican US congressional candidate running for the state's 8th district spot held by Democrat Elissa Slotkin, told the crowd: 'Governor Whitmer, and our state legislature, it's over with. Open this state.
'Let's get businesses back open again. Let's make sure there are jobs to go back to.'
Asher Wilson
but but according to the bugman media she was so popular, just like the donkeywitch of kiwistan?
No matter how much Trump or Bojo may be hated; the leftists who care that much are too low in numbers and chickenshit to ever put their necks out like this.
More so after watching antifa get their heads smashed in over the last 5 years.
Joseph Morgan
Other speakers at the rally questioned the deadliness of COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus.
They also said Whitmer's stay-at-home order violated constitutional rights, and urged people to open their businesses on May 1 in disregard of her order.
Thursday's rally began around 9am under steady rainfall with some protesters chanting 'USA' and 'lock her up,' referring to Whitmer, but alluding to a refrain often chanted at 2016 Trump rallies directed at Hillary Clinton.
State authorities have warned that protesters could be ticketed for violating social-distancing rules.
The mayor of Lansing, Andy Schor, said in a statement on Wednesday that he was 'disappointed' protesters would put themselves and others at risk, but recognized that Whitmer's order still allowed people to 'exercise their First Amendment right to freedom of speech'.
Whitmer has acknowledged that her order was the strictest in the country.
Protesters, many from more rural, Trump-leaning parts of Michigan, have argued it has crippled the economy statewide even as the majority of deaths from the virus are centered on the southeastern Detroit metro area.
Organizers of a mid-April protest in Michigan took credit when Whitmer recently rolled back some of the most controversial elements of her order, such as bans on people traveling to their other properties.
Whitmer's stay-at-home order is set to continue through May 15, though she has said she could loosen restrictions as health experts determine new cases of COVID-19 are being successfully controlled.
On Wednesday, she said the construction industry could get back to work starting May 7.
Lucas Diaz
>That pic
Name my band, Yas Forums
Dominic Wood
Thursday's protest appeared to be the largest in the state since April 15, when supporters and allies of President Donald Trump organized thousands of people for 'Operation Gridlock,' jamming the streets of Lansing with their cars to call out what they said was the overreach of Whitmer's strict stay-at-home order.
That was one of the country's first major anti-lockdown rallies, and helped sparked a wave of similar events nationwide.
The slow reopening of state economies around the country has taken on political overtones, as Republican politicians and individuals affiliated with Trump's re-election promoted protests in electoral battleground states, such as Michigan.
Many states, including Georgia, Oklahoma, Alaska, South Carolina and Ohio, have already moved to restart parts of their economies following weeks of mandatory lockdowns that have thrown nearly one in six American workers out of their jobs.
Public health authorities warn that increasing human interactions now without appropriate safety measures may spark a fresh surge of infections.
Regardless of the warning, people have taken to the streets to demonstrate against lockdown orders.
Earlier this week, hundreds of lockdown rebels attended the 'Reopen North Carolina' rally on despite the group's leader, Audrey Whitlock, testing positive for the coronavirus.
The group, which has been campaigning for government officials to reopen the state and relax coronavirus restrictions, were seen gathered outside the North Carolina Legislative Building in Raleigh.
William Wood
Many waved American flags while others held signs that read: 'Set our people free.'
Hardly any of the protesters were wearing masks or other protective gear as they clearly violated the social distancing order to remain six feet apart.
The demonstrators called on Gov Roy Cooper to ease the stay-at-home orders for the state where there are more than 9,900 confirmed cases and 354 deaths.
ReOpen NC is promising to hold rallies in Raleigh every Tuesday until the governor’s restrictions are lifted. His stay-at-home order has been extended until May 8.
Levi Cruz
They should join in, its not like they arent getting fucked too
Aaron Hill
>daily mail
please stop w/this shit
Dylan Brooks
Nice optics retards. Ready to start talking about race now that you look like psychopathic terrorists?
Ethan Lee
Spic Smasher
Zachary Hernandez
Get fucked
Jose Ward
The Eternal LARPs
Robert Gonzalez
>holding up pro trump signs.
No faggot...signs are not allowed in the capital building, guns are though...
Connor Young
>Ywn roll up to your local assembly armed and not immediately be shot
Pretty dope freedoms you fat cunts got
Jayden Nelson
Nathan Walker
What better time? Strike while the iron is hot, faggot. Or would it be better in your eyes to bend over and spread cheeks so the tyrants can ram their cocks in our asses? Don't answer, it's rhetorical, I know exactly what option your faggot coward ass would choose.
Jose Cox
>Invasion
I fucking hate the media. Those are Michiganders, that is their state, it's their capital. They're not invading shit, they're taking it back.
Daniel Edwards
The Hollow Points
Aiden Howard
Thats correct.
Adrian Brooks
nah, most of the most militant leftists are full fucking bootlickers as long as the politician is also leftist., Antifa may not be.. but their optics are exclusively fixed on fictional injustice these days.
Thomas Harris
>Bringing guns into the state capitol to stop tyranny is larping
Yes bet you think that Hitler guys was a larper too, I never saw him kill any Jews so it must be larping
Ryder Jenkins
This is GREAT!!!
Wyatt Price
Fuck optics. That's for women and pussies.
The media is a bunch of lying kikes and if they told the truth maybe I might care about optics
Michael Thomas
This
Jaxson Roberts
You're making me cry tears of joy, Michigan. This proves the 2nd works as intended.
Hudson Long
YES, WE NEEDED A DISTRACTION FROM NYC JEWS CAUSING A MASS PANDEMIC!
Joseph Foster
Absolute cowardice
Charles Jackson
All I'm saying is if you're going to start a revolution you might as well remove the niggers from power, otherwise you're changing nothing. These people running into a building with guns are the ones who said talking about race was bad optics lmao
Jason Hill
inb4 nothing happens.
Joshua Rivera
God bless 'em.
William Hughes
>Optics
Who fucking cares what you think Karen?
Jeremiah Reyes
These MIGA faggots will never shoot their guns. Fucking larping mutts.
Jacob Barnes
Shut the fuck up you glownigger shill.
Jackson Davis
BASED!
Kevin Jones
We Kill Commie Faggots Dead
Jeremiah Bennett
I agree, it was the gunfags who cared about optics, not me. Tell that to the people defending the virginia "protests" a couple months ago.
Landon Lee
Jordan Russell
>We're taking your guns away!
Protestors prove they are LARPing by getting in the cuck cage and holding their limp dicks.
>We're taking your wagecucking away!
Protestors actually storm assemblies with guns and make demands that might actually be taken seriously.
Koff rights matter!
Charles Wood
>michigan ppl want to get out
based
>nyc jews want to get out
not based
Jason Gonzalez
Oh the poor politician spouses. Almost like they forget it's not just a "place of work" and they wield power on behalf of the people who put them there.
Grayson Smith
>2020
>still caring about optics
Bro the media will spin it to look bad no matter what you. If you’re afraid of how people who hate you will look at this, just keep your head down and let the big boys handle it.
Dylan Evans
Not bad desu senpai
Brody Lopez
go back and stay there
Nicholas Lewis
Its their opportunity to miss.
Jace Taylor
They’re larping being scared.
Isaac James
cops could gun them down and none of you would do shit about it.
also, the cops know that the protestors wont do shit but complain.
Alexander Moore
Imagine being so cucked that you think exerting yourself politically constitutes as psychopathy.
Landon James
Hey faggot, we already pay men to stand over her on guard, so she can uphold the laws and Constitution. Don't breech those and nobody will be using them. And besides, does your Senator Karen think law is a knitting ckub? 100$ she has no problem send men with guns after us for teaching our kids that queer is dangerous. Double standard backstabbers, aka women.
Cameron Gutierrez
Why do they always look like trannies?!
Joseph Johnson
They’re Larping being afraid...it’s political theatrics.
Gabriel Richardson
God I would have been there... 2000 miles is a long drive though. I would have done 500.
Brayden Allen
> Implying the "police" aren't doing the same thing to everyone else every day
Brayden Sanchez
If the cops shoot even one of them they will all run away lol.
Wyatt Diaz
>I need to fertilize my lawn! This is Nazi Germany!
Jose Reyes
>cops make enemies of the only group that gives a shit about them continuing to be alive
Sounds pretty good desu
Thomas Morales
>1 post
>"Go back to X"
Godless nigger
Adrian Peterson
Nobody's gonna do shit you niggers
Parker Scott
STOP BREAKING THE LAW ASSHOLE
Bentley Wood
Hilariously, the people screaming and chimping out on police are the same people who say “JUST DO WHAT THEY SAY AND YOU WONT GIT HURT” when an unarmed POC is murdered by a police officer. No sympathy, I hope they are all gunned down like the violent criminals they are live on air
Carter Foster
Is it bring your kids to the Capital day? So cute those little kids dressed up like their daddies!
Jose Phillips
> The average/pol/ack
KEK
Wyatt Williams
doesnt matter, 1st world humans are cowards. nothing will happen.
Anthony Harris
Jaxson Stewart
Satan can't draw for shit.
Jayden Lee
How can we find out with you in the middle? Stand under your keystone, cunt.
Dominic Jenkins
It's actually pretty funny and shows the stupidity of Americans and general populations
Andrew Wilson
lmao this is good. If you're going to shoot the politicians do it for something meaningful like importing niggers into your neighborhoods, not because of shutdowns to stop a deadly disease.
Parker Nguyen
Cope
Owen Brown
> covered faced, kit, gun, and tropical shirt.
Sends a nice message "hey asshole, I will shoot you, or you can come burn one with me and check out my outdoor grow"
This is the best timeline
Caleb Hill
looks like a plebbiter
Eli Perry
Masonic Hoax
Lincoln Johnson
Wake me up when your feelings matter more than everyone's forced financial collapse
Owen Ramirez
Adrian Gray
God bless the USA
Matthew Cruz
Why are they wearing masks if they think the virus is a government conspiracy?
Ayden Powell
Fake and gay
Jaxson Cruz
I'm actually scared of a "right wing revolution" because if it's led by people like this they will end up including trannies and shit because muh freedom