Bruce Kring, the mayor of Michigan’s Potterville, was slammed on Monday for perhaps prompting violence through his Facebook posts requiring “rebellion” and telling followers to “TAKE power back.”
In a September 12 post, Kring shared an image that checks out, “Either we TAKE power back or we will never ever be free once again, no more asking nicely. Our starting fathers cautioned us. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Can I hear an ‘AMEN’ !!”
In a November 13 post, Kring published an image of wood stocks, a type of corporal punishment and public embarrassment typical before the 19 th century. The text along with the image stated, “Whitler’s next lockdown.”
Whitler is a combination of the surnames of Adolf Hitler, the Nazi leader who managed the murder of over 6 million Jews and Europeans, and Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic governor of Michigan. Whitmer’s COVID-19 lockdown measures made her the target of attacks from Republican President Donald Trump, and a kidnapping and murder plot hatched by conservative militia
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Kring’s picture revealed males loading and aiming their firearms.
Kring declined an interview with the Lansing-based news station WLNS.
In a separate Facebook post, Kring composed, “To the people that sent out email( s) to ch.
In November, Kring came under examination for Facebook posts he published as the number of COVID-19 cases increased in Eaton County. At the time, Kring published a picture of a face mask and the accompanying text: “this ends when we all state no,” according to WILX-TV.
Asked by the news station about his post, Kring stood by his remarks and stated that people must be enabled to decide on their own whether to use a mask.
Potterville, Michigan has a population of 2,703 Considering that the start of the pandemic, Eaton County, the county which contains Potterville, has reported an overall of 4,540 COVID-19 cases and 87 deaths. Eaton County has a population of 110,268 homeowners.
Newsweek called Kring’s office for remark.
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