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Small Michigan Town Greets BLM Protest with Snipers, Slurs and Pro Trump Chants
The sleepy town of Bedford, Michigan found itself in the center of a scandal recently when local School Board member, Todd Bruning, was found posting extremely violent, transphobic and racist content on social media, some in response to the murder of George Floyd.
Bruning, who also owns an arms business in Lambertville, Michigan called Todd’s Guns, boasts a prominent Trump 2020 on its front facing wall.
Reacting to the controversy, a small swath of Black Lives Matter protesters took to the street where Bruning’s business sits and marched toward it chanting “No Justice, No Peace” and “We Can’t breathe,” the haunting last words of both Floyd, who was killed by a law enforcement officer on May 25th, and Eric Garner, another unarmed black man selling loose cigarettes on July 17th, 2014. These are just two black men in a long succession that have been killed by authorities, often in the form of brutal street executions.
The peaceful protesters arrived an hour before dusk with placards and a megaphone to…