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Lawsuit by New Orleans truck attack victims says city, contractors failed to implement safety system
Read full article: Lawsuit by New Orleans truck attack victims says city, contractors failed to implement safety systemSix people who were injured and the father of a man who was killed in the New Year’s truck attack are suing the City of New Orleans and two contractors, claiming they failed to protect revelers from an Army veteran who sped around a police blockade and raced down Bourbon Street.
Who are the Wolverine Watchmen? What is ‘boogaloo’?
Read full article: Who are the Wolverine Watchmen? What is ‘boogaloo’?LANSING – Many law enforcement agencies -- local and federal -- are investigating the group behind the terrorism plot to kidnap Gov. While they’re affiliate with the Michigan Militia, the Wolverine Watchmen is its own group with its own goals. The Wolverine Watchmen formed very recently. The boogaloo movement is a loosely organized far-right extremist movement with members advocating for a second Civil War. According to the Anti-Defamation League, the current boogaloo movement was first noticed by extremism researchers in 2019.
Gov. Whitmer kidnapping plot: Here’s what we’ve learned as of Friday afternoon
Read full article: Gov. Whitmer kidnapping plot: Here’s what we’ve learned as of Friday afternoonLocal 4 has learned more Friday about the alleged plot to kidnap Gov. That’s when the Wolverine Watchmen caught the FBI’s attention. In June, the men involved in the kidnapping conspiracy started meeting with members of the Wolverine Watchmen and recruiting others to their ranks. “They belong to a group, a militia group, called the Wolverine Watchmen. A house on Dunn Road in Munith that was raided Oct. 8, 2020, in connection with a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov.