Michigan’s attorney general says a rare criminal charge has resulted in pleas that prevented an incident of mass violence.
Members of the white supremacy group “The Base” pleaded no contest this month on a count of “conspiracy to train with firearms for a civil disorder.”
The Attorney General’s office says it’s the first time in state history that charge had been brought.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says high-profile cases of racism-based violence show the need for having laws like that on the books. "When people ask what are you doing to combat this? How do we make sure that we don’t have another Buffalo-style massacre happen here in the State of Michigan? It’s by doing what we’re doing right now," she says.
Nessel was referring specifically to an attack on a grocery store in a Black community of Buffalo, New York, that left ten dead earlier this month.