Jury acquits two men, deadlocks on two others in alleged plot to kidnap Michigan governor
raised alarms about the possibility of politically-motivated violence as the nation was increasingly divided over a bitterly contested presidential race.
Two of the men initially arrested as part of the Michigan group, Ty Garbin and Kaleb Franks, pleaded guilty months ago and testified against the other four at trial, saying they had agreed to kidnap Whitmer, a Democrat, from her lakeside home. The men allegedly discussed taking the governor to the middle of the lake on a boat, or holding a kind of mock tribunal for her.
Months after their high-profile arrests, on Jan. 6, 2021, a mob of people who believed President Trump’s false claims that the election was stolen stormed the U.S. Capitol seeking to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s election as president, further heightening concerns about far-right extremist groups and self-styled militias.
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