Michigan protesters demand end to coronavirus stay-at-home order

Thousands of demonstrators in cars with horns honking thronged around Michigan’s state Capitol on Wednesday, some chanting “lock her up,“ to protest against stay-at-home orders imposed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer to stop the coronavirus. Traffic around the Lansing statehouse was jammed for hours by the rally, dubbed “Operation Gridlock“ and organised by the Republican-aligned Michigan Conservative Coalition to challenge the Democratic governor’s social-distancing measures, among the strictest in the natio
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