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Michigan County Challenges Gretchen Whitmer Lockdown Orders: ‘People Just Need to Live Again’


A Michigan county has passed a resolution urging residents to ignore Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) copious coronavirus executive orders and “live again.”

The Alcona County Board of Commissioners unanimously passed a resolution in August citing the Declaration of Independence and likening its actions to the Boston Tea Party.

“The Declaration of Independence does not guarantee the protection to stay safe or healthy, that is an individual responsibility,” the resolution noted, before criticizing the regions Whitmer’s administration created to handle restrictions differently, based on the severity of the disease locally.

“The opening regional map drawn make absolutely no sense. The county north of us has higher urban areas, more cases and is on the least restrictive path to opening where we are lumped in with counties with mass populations (nothing in common geographically),” the county, which borders Lake Huron, said, referring to Alpena County.

The commissioners argue there was no “control group” used on which to base the statewide mask mandate.

“When making the statement ‘Masks Save Lives’ there was no control group to make the case. I believe we serve as said control group and disprove that statement

The commissioners wrote Whitmer has evolved her purpose of the lockdown. Originally, it was to “flatten the curve.”

Now, it is to “keep people from getting the disease. That is an unrealistic and unachievable goal. The orders have gone beyond the original intent,” they said.

Citing the Declaration’s section about the people’s right to alter or abolish their government, commissioners wrote:

Whereas, we are not advocating to over-throw or abolishment, but if these practices continue, civil disobedience and ignoring the over-reaching and oppressive Executive Orders that have been afflicted on our citizens, akin to the “Boston Tea Party”, which was respectful to the cargo vessels but not to the cargo itself.

Commissioners asked Whitmer to “cease issuing any more executive orders concerning matter,” and rely on them to make decisions for their local residents, along with the health resource officer due to Whitmer’s “lack of knowledge of our local area.”

They also requested Whitmer “work with the elected legislative body on this matter, since they were elected to represent us in all matters and not be dictated by one branch which is supposed to be checked” by the legislature.

“We just don’t have the same similarities that you would have to Bay City or Saginaw,” resolution author Commissioner Gary Wnuk told Mlive. “Most properties are minimum 10-20 acres. We’re not exactly squeezed in. When you take a one-size fits all solution, it just doesn’t work.”

Alcona County has had 23 confirmed cases of coronavirus and two deaths.

“People’s lives are dying, because we’re afraid,” Wnuk said. “I think people just need to live again.”

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Staffer from Oregon House Speaker’s Office Arrested at Portland Riot


A name on the list of people arrested at a riot in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday matches that of Kristina Narayan, a staffer with Democrat State Rep. and House Speaker Katie Kotek.

Narayan, who has worked for the state Democrat leader since September 2016, was arrested for “interfering with a peace officer,” Fox News reported:

The Portland Police Bureau (PPB) said 58 other people also were arrested on charges ranging from rioting to attempted assault of a public safety officer.

“Multiple fire bombs, mortars, rocks, and other items were thrown at law enforcement during a riot Saturday night in Southeast Portland,” the release said.

“Kristina Narayan was arrested for Interfering with a Police Officer after the event became a riot and the crowd was given multiple orders to disperse, which she did not do,” a spokesperson for the PPB told Fox News.

Riots have raged almost nightly in Portland for more than 100 days, with dozens of police officers being injured and property damaged over the months.

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Detroit Police Chief Slams Rashida Tlaib for ‘False Claims’ Against Department

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Detroit police chief James Craig slammed far-left congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) and other Democratic lawmakers, accusing them of making false claims against his police department.

Tlaib, who represents Michigan’s 13th Congressional District, co-authored a letter with three other Democratic legislators on Tuesday asking for an independent investigation into the Detroit police department’s use of force on demonstrators this summer. The letter claimed that the police’s actions to quell protests demonstrated "a dismissive attitude of the movement for racial justice."

But Craig said the claims made in the letter are not factually correct, and he blasted the legislators for ignoring protesters’ violence aimed at police.

"It’s unfortunate that these representatives have chosen to repeat a number of false claims in their letter without verifying the facts," Craig said in a statement. "What really disturbs me is that when the protesters assaulted Detroit police officers with rocks, railroad spikes, and fireworks, never once did these representatives ask for an independent investigation into their violent criminal activity."

Craig told MLive that his department has only deployed forceful tactics, such as using tear gas or physically restraining protesters, in violent situations.

"Every time we’ve had to use less-than-lethal force, it’s been to address violence by protesters, resisting arrest, or when they’ve tried to take over an intersection in violation of the law," he said.

In the letter, Tlaib and the group—which also included State Senator Stephanie Chang (D.), Detroit City Council president pro tempore Mary Sheffield (D.), and Council Member Raquel Castañeda-López (D.)—defended the anti-police activist group Detroit Will Breathe, which hosted a speaker at an event on Sept. 3 who openly called for violence against police

"We need to effectively fight these motherf*****s," the unidentified speaker said. "We need to engage, and not in a way that’s about being respectable."

Craig has served as Detroit’s top cop since 2013 and said he has no plan to resign in the near future.

A handful of police chiefs in major cities across the country have resigned recently following a wave of anti-police protests this summer. Former Seattle police chief Carmen Best retired at the beginning of September following clashes with Seattle City Council. And Dallas police chief Ulysha Reneé Hall announced her resignation Tuesday after Dallas City Council criticized her approach to confronting violent protests in the city.

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