Do you remember reading about several guys who schemed to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, and were arrested by the FBI? They were supposedly upset with her Covid-19 restrictions limiting their freedom of action.
NBC News reports the jury found two not guilty on all charges, and could not reach a verdict on the other two. Oddly, this was in spite of a further two who pleaded guilty and testified against the four whose trial just concluded. The four alleged they were victims of FBI entrapment and it appears some number of jurors believed that claim.
The video of clean-cut, fit young men - easily mistaken for FBI agents - participating in anti-government demonstrations on the capitol mall tended to bolster the suspicion that the FBI has become an instigator of unlawful behavior. It appears that, like fake racist incidents, there isn't enough real anti-government activity to meet the government's need to claim persecution so they fabricate it.
As we have written here before, I don't believe we want our Federal law enforcement instigating unlawful behaviors because they can't find enough of it happening naturally to justify their budget requests. It would appear the jury in Michigan agreed.
