What Is Michigan’s Wolverine Watchmen and How Does It Operate?

The FBI recently announced it had foiled a violent plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor. The men allegedly behind it called themselves the “Wolverine Watchmen.” What is this group and what do we know about them? Rather than a top-down organized effort, security expert Seth Jones told Inside Edition Digital, “This is really the bottom up effort of a couple of individuals.” According to Jones, there are “hundreds if not thousands of these local, bottom up organizations” in the U.S.