Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer continued on Sunday to defend her updated stay-at-home orders to battle the coronavirus pandemic despite facing large protests from residents eager to get out of their houses.
Whitmer argued that she enforced stricter measures because Michigan has been hit particularly hard by the contagion and that the orders are a way to flatten the curve.
Sheriff of Mason County Michigan, Kim Cole, shares reasons why he and other county Sheriffs are standing up to Governor Whitmer and her stay at home orders: