Hundreds of people protested outside the Michigan Capitol building in Lansing on Thursday, with some pushing inside while the Legislature was debating an extension of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's state of emergency in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The panel discusses. Aired on 5/1/2020.
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Armed Protesters In Mich. Rally Against Emergency Measures | Morning Joe | MSNBC
“A police spokesman told MSMBC, it is OK to carry firearms in Michigan.”
Police spokesman failed to mention, “but only if you are white”.
Real “patriots”…they remind me of Nazi Germany with their flags and guns q!
Dude, you lost all credibility when you said “nazi” bro
Stupidity to most of us!
N A ever watch a Trump rally?
@Elmo Green There are extremes on both political wings, does voting for Trump make you a Nazi? Does voting for Biden, on the left, make anyone who voted for him a Marxist/Communist? Answer to both is no.
They are not sheep like you, pathetic submissive.
Trump loves the Uneducated..
He said it himself
@Jack Jarkin You are showing your arrogance and thinking you’re a much superior person than those “peasants”
@Claire Wright morally superior yes. One of the protesters, a Trump supporter mind you, said she doesn’t care if the most vulnerable get sick and die from this.
@Claire Wright no being is lower than Trump and his braindead cult
@TCL Tcl Keep waking up. Checking your account for unemployment. Go fight for your right to free college and healthcare. Go complain about cars and the earth getting warmer. Come home make your vegan sandwhich, drink your soy milk. Turn on CNN and fall asleep to the soft sweet lies of Don Lemon. Your life is on repeat.
@Darian Brunner no sense communicating with u
A braindead brainwashed cult
If you’re black or brown carrying a weapon openly, most likely the police will shoot you on sight, legal or not. I’m a gun owner and I fail to see what carrying weapons has to do with a stay at home protest.
@BillyBob Kumar there where black people carrying media didn’t show them
Pete Musico if it was the majority, then police would definitely be up on them
Except that you are clearly the racist one, and 100% wrong!
https://youtu.be/YpTXeY6Bq7U
Its simple republicans love to play the victim why making Americans the real victims of there stupidity
Like this???….
https://youtu.be/YpTXeY6Bq7U
Meanwhile I’ve been at home watching Netflix, collecting free unemployment benefits, and learning random skills
@Gypsy Julie Yeah feeling it same club 🙂
@Naruto Fan Thanks!! 🙂
No one is saying you have to go back to work. just let those that want to go back… go and feed their families.
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so right.now i back to work.,still alot of stuff todo at home(
You would have had violent clashes with Police in full riot gear beating and killing citizens in the streets if it were “Black live matter” showing up with there hands up never mind open carrying registered firearms
Frederick Dixon let me explain let’s say the protesters were black and they were carrying firearms and they conduct themselves properly policeoffice will not have to pepper spray you guys instead in some areas black lives matter protest had become riot the cops didn’t start the riot cars were tipped over fires were set debris had been thrown at police officers it’s not that your black it’s not that your white it’s about attitude and self-control which was lacking during the black lives matter March so let’s take the blinders off and stop playing the race card sorry I talk so much you have a good morning and be safe and as the late Rodney King said can’t we just all get along
@Chris Ranz This is the same argument the used against protesters in the 60’s (we’re not racist they are just thugs) and it wasn’t true then but people bought it. You ever think that could be the same case now🤔
@Tarleda Manley actually I feel the protesters conducting themselves quite peacefully in the 60s
@Chris Ranz That literally was my point they said they were thugs people bought it and it wasn’t true🤷🏾♀️ and the cops got away with brutalizing them for years
@Tarleda Manley yes what they did to those people in the 60s was absolutely despicable police brutality
This is wildly inappropriate. Let the idiots infect themselves, just one if them needs to be COVID-19 positive.
@Picket Fence Thank you for all you do and for taking care of those who are suffering from this virus. I didn’t know you were a front line nurse just like you didn’t know about my family. And I’ll be praying for your safety along with (of course) everyone on the front lines.
@Patsy Sadowski they arent AK’s
You’re not informed enough to look at the facts. Go look at the antibody test results vs fatality rate. A bad flu here, keep the elderly and immune suppressed safe, the rest of the people are 3 months late for work. I work in the med field also, been around covid patients from day 1. Most are sent home with prescriptions, hospitals are mostly EMPTY. Nurses are laid off, hours cut, etc. And yes, doctors are told to hype the numbers. Look at how many other deaths have went way down and read between the (lies). The truth is not always pleasant but better than living a lie.
@David Halverson You’re the real hater. Maybe that should happen to you.
@Mike Mower exactly man
*They should each be brave enough to sign an online petition. That way we have their names, so when they get sick they shouldnt be allowed any medical attention*
These aren’t just protestors. They’re an armed mob attempting to incite a violent uprising.
@seek truth I’d like to know just what prompted you to even have an assault rifle at a protest rally? Let alone why you even need to own one. BTW it only takes 1 deranged individual to to start a massacre. Thus no firearms no chance of a massacre.
Tarleda Manley bro they did it because the whole world is tired of this fake government made-virus. We need more people like this to protest at each state capital. These governors need to understand that they can’t expect to lockdown everything forever they want war well keep us lockdown all I’m sayin
Kimberly Wertz ever heard of the second amendment? No one needs to justify to you why they need a gun. Btw assault rifles have been banned in the US since the Hughes amendment. Just bc you don’t like guns doesn’t mean people can’t have them it’s a right and that right isn’t going anywhere so get used to it.
@hoto puto So you are saying that you don’t care if people are dying due to the pandemic.
1800s
So that’s all it took huh, 6 weeks for people to declare themselves “not free”
@WP Support Services I know that everyone can be affected by the virus. But there is no way he would listen if I told him he could die from it too.
Bunch of morons 😑
Ya Ya California, and in my county we are ordered to wear masks
@HOWARD BOYD I’m self quarantine from 9th of February,( still doing it till it’s “all clear”) feeling good, making myself busy at home, working out, all good, even better than before ( no pollution, no smog, no car noise, no planes above head roaring), and I AM ALIVE & HEALTHY. I don’t NEED TO PUT UP WITH ANYTHING, we all HAS TO PUT UP WITH IDIOTS WHO THINK THEIR IQ IS ABOVE 162, and they are all IMMUNE ON EVERY STUPIDITY- even death.
Hope to God you all pay PROPER PRICE YOU ALL DESERVE IT- together with imbecile in the Office
A bunch of psychos
Just tell the police officer “I have a gun” and we’re filled with bullets.
Dumbest nation on earth🇺🇸
@Annie Warbux i know right. Police in a nutshell! We the people just wanna be on the same playing field.
Or if you are referring to Existing While Black. just let the cop see you have a cell phone, or bag of Skittles and Arizona tea.. Or sitting in your own home watching TV and having a drunk cop as a neighbor… Sleeping in a threatening manor.. I wonder why the cops feel that they are hated and not trusted?
This is how black people need to protest when an innocent or unarmed black person is gun down by the police. Black people need to march to their state capital armed to the teeth when local or state politicians fail in their duties. Black people need to ditch the Democratic party go all Independent. The Democrats (for the most part) are anti 2nd Amendment, and they use gun violence in America to instill fear in black people from gun ownership.
@Deno Jay – of course!! *More guns* and *more shooting* is *certain* to stop gun violence… (=sarcasm=)
the virus will handle this hopefully… privilege at it’s finest and we can’t even take a freaking knee!
Under 50 years of age less than one percent die. The media is playing you. Most deaths over 65 and have other medical conditions.
*its
The virus is only killing those with pre existing conditions. Everyones going to get it
@HOWARD BOYD EXACTLY
I just posted the same thing! I guess they not backing the blue today huh?
players taking a knee against police brutality: ungrateful!!
armed protestors demanding to geting into a bulding:” very good people”
These Freaks are going to get America thrown under Martial law.
No, going to open up country and push for freedom guaranteed. What right do these governors have to continue this when most of these deaths are over 65 years? They are counting all deaths in some states as corona. Inflated death numbers and mostly from nursing homes. Under 50 only one percent fatalities, less than car wrecks yearly deaths in Florida. Not banning automobiles.
@joe Domjan that’s their right. They aren’t harming me. I’m staying home. If the gov is going to decide who is an essential service… What’s next? Decide who is allowed to procreate? Next step will be deciding who is an essential person.
well under Martial Law they would have been the first ones executed publicly.
It won’t lead to martial law before herd immunity. As much as I think martial law would help at this point, it’s not coming
We all ready are Buddy
Whether you support right or left, going to a government building with guns and pushing your way in….. does that sound like something that wouldn’t get you killed or taken into custody?
They didnt push or shove or anything. They just stood there and chanted for awhile.
Carlos Forbidden oh, for sure, that makes things better
Imagine if they were black,the reaction would have been different. That is why we are talking about racism!
@Larrygilbertreyes Reyes Do not concur, color has nothing to do with it! Debt collection will not stop but agree, it could be worked out.
seek truth you’re right violence and non-violent long gun carriers! Big difference wasn’t there!
@Den34689 guns are guns, and that’s not what it was supposed to be about, let them work. If they feel that badly about, I say go for it the virus will, figure it out for them.
But I also say , put the to the back of the treatment line
Aldo Martinez
Jesus Christ no
Oh that victim card, the blacks get too much benefits in this country, and they want more, shut up.
When is protesting with assault rifles a lawful intent?
@Joel Mittelstaedt threatening, it’s a word. Look it up. .
@Joel Mittelstaedt – “they were assaulted earlier in the week” – By Whom? And How?
…”so they exercised their rights” – What rights are being infringed upon here? The “right” to carry a firearm into a government building? The “right” to *bully* and *threaten,* and *pull stormtrooper tactics on lawmakers* that are *trying to protect the people that elected them??*
@Reed Richards do your own research
@Joel Mittelstaedt – I did, Chuckles. Lame.
@Reed Richards your opinions say you didn’t
this is a perfect example of RACISM being the core principle of the USA.
captainphoenix, idk how old you are but I remember since my childhood in the mid 70’s watching the KKK Ralleys with the cops protecting them, to the 90’s watching the skinheads and Aryan brotherhood marching and rallying at the capital building on MLK Jr day to show disrespect to MLK Jr, Day and once again well protected by law enforcement and well received by the business community. Believe me nothing phases me anymore of how far right, alt right, white nationalism and supremacy is protected and defended. Today we have a President who downplays his stance and keeps saying these groups are good people over and over even when they march with confederate and Nazi flags. This is unbelievable Times.
Back up your comment. What’s racist?
@wholly33 Was that what happened when BLM took over an interstate? How about when structure fires in St. Louis and Baltimore got so out of hand news choppers bailed because the smoke got so bad it was dangerous to fly? How did the press treat Brett Weinstein at Green Mountain College? Did these incidents – which didn’t happen 40+ years ago – not happen? And how were they covered? Do I have to get into the mayors of Berkeley and Portland?
@wholly33 Nope just like captain phoenix said. Any opposition would be labeled racism and the group would run rampant and burn stuff down or flip over some cars. Find it the perfect oppurtunity to loot businness. Baltimore mustve happened like 100 years ago or something if i can recall. Youre a joke. You again are the problem. You throw race into an issue that has absolutely zero to do with race. For what? Again, you want a plaque or something bud?
captainphoenix, were BLM armed with semi automatic weapons hmmmm No. yet people like you call them terrorist but call armed militia who support white supremacy and carry the confederate and Nazi flags around Patriots. That’s racist Logic for you
ANYTIME A BLACK PERSON KILLES BECAUSE A “SUSPICION “ THAT THEY ARE “ARMED”, I’LL REMEMBER THIS VIDEO.
@Helicopter Dad, careful now when you start preaching history like that and don’t realize MLK Jr. had to march with the Civil Rights Movement in protest for inequality which affected blacks as a whole in America. No Republican stood out in traffic to protest to stop it. Are you trying to tell me the Dems were way more Powerful that they ran America and kept the Republican party at Bay so that blacks can continue to suffer under segregation, discrimination etc or was it the Republicans really didn’t care enough to put their hands down to say blacks will not suffer oppression because the strong Republican party will not let that happen? Fact is for decades after slavery and even in our Military, blacks did suffer oppression and inequality under both parties. So lets get history right and stop white washing it. obtw I am not a Dem and never will be. I am a former black conservative now independent.
wholly33 Candace Owens
Helicopter Dad, what about Candace Owens?
Learn English and facts.
@Helicopter Dad are you on drugs??? Blacks didn’t prosper under twump!!! You are not black nor can you even think of what is good for blacks. Having 2 fast food jobs is not flourishing!! You entitled white man!!
Imagine if those people were black and brown, we know what would have happened.
bang bang shot on the head