FBI arrests white supremacy leader in extremism crackdown in Michigan
Source: Detroit News
Federal agents on Thursday arrested two men, including the self-proclaimed leader of the Base, a violent, white supremacist group, as part of a continuing crackdown on extremism in Michigan three weeks after the FBI said it thwarted a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
A team of FBI agents arrested Justen Watkins, 25, of Bad Axe, the self-proclaimed leader of the Base, and Alfred Gorman, 35, of Taylor, during a pair of raids across Michigan, a source told The Detroit News.
They are linked to a December 2019 incident in Dexter in which a local family was terrorized by the men, who tried to intimidate a husband and wife and shared their address with members of the Base, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a statement.
Her office charged the men with several felonies, including gang membership, a 20-year felony, using a computer to commit a crime and unlawful posting of a message. The charges were filed in Washtenaw County District Court, the location of the alleged Dexter incident.
Read more: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/10/29/fbi-arrests-accused-neo-nazis-michigan-crackdown-extremism/6067038002/
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Bad Axe is a heckuva name for a town
catbyte
(34,367 posts)MsLeopard
(1,265 posts)and makes it all go away for these thugs.....
BComplex
(8,029 posts)He's performing traitorous acts as we speak, and he's messing with our elections.
Traildogbob
(8,709 posts)Vanilla ISIS terror acts they shout, Allahu AkBARR!
Trump is great.
central scrutinizer
(11,646 posts)Seems so appropriate.
nycbos
(6,034 posts)Malcolm Nance calls them Vanilla ISIS
keithbvadu2
(36,746 posts)Origin of al-Qaeda
From the Arabic word al-qa'ida, literally, the base
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/al--qaeda
BadGimp
(4,013 posts)maddogesq
(1,245 posts)which will freeze over in a few weeks.😎
bucolic_frolic
(43,123 posts)I guess these are states' AG, and not the federal DOJ?
Illumination
(2,458 posts)terrorist neighbors. These kids are throwing their lives away!... Protest peacefully but please don't do this!
dalton99a
(81,432 posts)Black Lives Matter Protest Comes to Bad Axe Michigan
klook
(12,154 posts)The profile doesn't mention either of these yahoos, although they could be regional leaders affiliated with the Wash. State group (or maybe "self-proclaimed leader" is all this Bad Axe twerp is).