Another protest is scheduled to take place at the Michigan Capitol building on Thursday.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Wednesday that armed protests at the state’s Capitol over her stay-at-home order have « been really political rallies where people come with Confederate flags and Nazi symbolism and calling for violence, » adding that if they continue, it could lengthen the state’s social-distancing restrictions.
« I do think that the fact of the matter is these protests, in a perverse way, make it likelier that we’re going to have to stay in a stay-at-home posture, » Whitmer told ABC’s « The View. »
« This is not appropriate in a global pandemic, but it’s certainly not an exercise of democratic principles where we have free speech, » Whitmer said. « This is calls to violence, this is racist and misogynistic. And I ask that everyone who has a platform uses it to call on people to observe the best practices promulgated by the CDC and to stop encouraging this behavior, because it only makes it that much more precarious for us to try to reengage our economy, which is what everyone says they want us to be able to do.
