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Anti-Lockdown Rallies in the Wake of George Floyd's Murder
Before George Floyd was killed, while I was in Michigan with these groups, I was struck by how much of their rage and frustration was focused on law enforcement. And even when I would talk to them one-on-one, they would really go into how state troopers and local police officers were jack-booted Nazis. Then George Floyd was killing. The people who were exercised by all of that forgot or willfully ignored the fact that mere months before the racial justice protest, there were these anti-lockdown protests staged by mostly white conservatives where people were literally brandishing firearms at state capitals.