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On Tuesday, Trump is holding a
💥“crime and safety” rally 💥
in #Howell, #Michigan -- the site of a White Supremacists march in July and the
⚠️“KKK capital of Michigan.”

July rally participants chanted “We love #Hitler. We love #Trump.” They also “carried flags with antisemitic and racist messages.”

July demonstrators also made their way several miles eastward to the Latson Road/I-96 overpass in Genoa Township -- where pictures from a community Facebook group show them hanging #Nazi and #KKK #flags over the side to be visible to traffic. One picture also showed them with a Trump flag.

According to both Talking Points Memo and the Washington Post:
Howell has long been associated with the Ku Klux Klan because of the rallies Michigan-based Grand Dragon Robert Miles held on a nearby farm in the 1970s and 1980s, although community leaders have worked to shake off that image.

Miles “was among five people convicted in 1971 of planning the bombing of school buses slated for court-ordered desegregation in Pontiac [MI].”

He was also convicted of conspiracy in the “tarring and feathering of Dr. R. Wiley Brownlee, a high school principal in Ypsilanti who supported desegregation.”

However, in 1988, at least three men burned “a six-foot wooden cross … on the lawn of a retired Black couple in Howell,” Henry and Shirley Griffin.
https://themoderatevoice.com/trump-to-hold-rally-about-crime-and-safety-in-mi-city-known-for-white-supremacy/