Topline Following the arrest of six men earlier this week for their alleged involvement in a plot to kidnap Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer before the November election, Dar Leaf, Barry County (Michigan) sheriff, said that he doesn’t have any regrets about being onstage with one of the suspects at a recent demonstration and suggested the Wolverine Watchmen militia members may have been merely planning to apprehend Gov. Whitmer to execute a citizen’s arrest. William Null stands in the gallery of the Michigan Senate Chamber during the American Patriot Rally … [+] to demand the reopening of businesses, despite the pandemic, at the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, on April 30, 2020. JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images Key Facts A pair of brothers, Michael and William Null, were among the first suspects to be arrested after the FBI raided their West Michigan homes Wednesday night, charging the two men with conspiring to kidnap the governor. Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf stood alongside an armed William Null at a rally protesting Gov. Whitmer’s stay-at-home order in May. At the mid-May rally, Leaf said the governor’s quarantine measures were equivalent to a mass arrest of the state’s residents and referred to a local barber who ope… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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