Michigan Gov. Whitmer says that protesters who demonstrated at the state Capitol building last week “carried nooses and Confederate flags and swastikas.”
at the state Capitol building last week"carried nooses and Confederate flags and swastikas."
"Unfortunately, right now in Michigan, we see a small number of people ... it looks large on television, but when you think about this is a state of 10 million people, this is a small contingent that came out and made political statements. They carried nooses and Confederate flags and swastikas," she said in an interview on NBC's"TODAY" show when asked why some of the protesters who carried guns or violated social distancing mandates weren't arrested.
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