Dozens of armed "stop the steal" protesters threaten Michigan Secretary of State outside her house

[AntiFascist]

Source: CBS News

Michigan's Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says armed protesters gathered outside her home on Saturday night, "shouting obscenities and chanting into bullhorns in the dark of night." In a statement posted on Twitter, Benson said the protesters were "an extension of the noise and clouded efforts to spread false information about the security and accuracy of our elections that we've all endured in the month since the polls closed on November 3."

Benson said the protesters arrived just after she and her 4-year-old son finished decorating for Christmas and were about to start a holiday movie. She said dozens of armed individuals stood outside of her home making "unambiguous, loud and threatening" demands.

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"Through threats of violence, intimidation, and bullying, the armed people outside my home and their political allies seek to undermine and silence the will and voices of every voter in this state, no matter who they voted for," Benson said in her statement. "Their goal is to overturn and upend the results of an election that are clear and unequivocal, and that 5.5 million Michigan citizens participated in."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michigan-protest-jocelyn-benson-secretary-of-state/

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Someone should put Trump out of his misery with the 25th Amendment before this gets out of hand!

[marybourg]

1. This happened 48 hours ago.

[AntiFascist]

3. I'm only seeing reports of this today...

Also this report is about a twitter post that happened at 5pm yesterday.

[msongs]

2. the blue lives matter crowd no doubt appeared to protect her from the armed gang right? nt

[AntiFascist]

5. After under-age militia member Kyle Rittenhouse murdered people...

I doubt others would feel comfortable counter-protesting in this part of the country.

On edit, sorry I just noticed you said "blue-lives" matter. They should be called "white lives matter more".

[Moostache]

4. This is domestic terrorism, plain and simple.

They should ALL be arrested for making terroristic threats, assault and face the consequences of being a gang of assholes...

If they resist, send in the National Guard and offer them ONE chance to surrender before mowing them down where they stand.
I am through with these people, the election is over, you all lost and either accept it or play the role and die a traitors death for all I care....but in Florida we have raids of family homes with guns drawn and in Michigan we have out of control mobs armed to the teeth.

Enough. Disperse them or shoot them dead. Either outcome is fine by me, but their continued presence is not.

[keithbvadu2]

6. Texas bar owner, armed protesters arrested at business reopening after dramatic standoff with police

Texas bar owner, armed protesters arrested at business reopening after dramatic standoff with police

https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-bar-owner-armed-gunmen-swat-standoff-reopening-coronavirus

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6154681930001#sp=show-clips Video

https://www.google.com/search?q=Big+Daddy+Zane%27s+Bar&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com

[AntiFascist]

7. People will need access to ICU beds...

not to mention the fact that healthcare workers are being overworked.

[Evolve Dammit]

8. How is criminal threatening OK? It's a CRIME. Good God MI "law enforcement", do your job.

[Wicked Blue]

9. We should replace the words "stop and steal'

with "Whine and Squeal."

[LiberalLovinLug]

10. How can police ignore this, even if they are predominantly on the terrorists side?

There is a professionalism to take a bit of pride in too. Not all of them are red hats. Stop the Steal protesters are going beyond exercising their freedom of speech, by taking their political disagreements to peoples homes, and kids, in such an aggressive deadly manner. It's over the line, period. I'm sure the neighbours as well deserve to have the police keep others from disturbing the peace, if nothing else.