US militia leader told informant he would kill police
Source: Chicago Tribune / Reuters
DETROIT, Feb 24 (Reuters) - The leader of a Midwestern
militia group bragged to an FBI informant in secretly recorded
conversations played this week at his federal trial that he
would kill police and their families to try to keep other
officers from enforcing federal laws.
David Brian Stone Sr., one of seven members of a group
called the Hutaree facing trial on federal charges that they
were plotting to kill police to spark a wider insurrection, did
not say what would trigger the attack.
"The guys with the little stars on their chest are enforcing
all the new world order laws," Stone could be heard saying on
one recording made by the informant. "We're going to pop 'em.
Defense attorneys have contended the Hutaree was a social
group whose members were exercising their right of free speech.
Prosecutors on Thursday and Friday sought to prove otherwise
with the recordings and testimony by the informant.
Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-rt-crime-hutareel2e8doe8k-20120224,0,3972354.story
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