DETROIT — FBI agents have uncovered new threats to kill Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, along with other Democratic politicians, law enforcement officers and those in the LGBTQ+ community, according to a criminal case unsealed Friday that marks the latest crackdown on violent antigovernment extremism in Michigan.
The allegations emerged in a case against Sebewaing resident Randall Robert Berka II that was unsealed in federal court one day after a grand jury indicted an Adrian-area man accused of posting threats on Twitter to kill Jewish politicians, including Attorney General Dana Nessel. The case was filed almost 2 1/2 years after FBI agents thwarted a plot to kidnap Whitmer that involved extremists hoping to spark a second Civil War.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is the target of death threats in a new federal criminal case.
