William Lawrence Pled Guilty to Felony, Resisted and Obstructed Police

A new report reveals Socialist William Lawrence pled guilty to a felony, resisted and obstructed police, and used lockboxes to lock himself to machinery in protest of the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline.

This is a concerning pattern as Socialist felon William Lawrence has a rich history of calling to defund the police.

“Socialist felon William Lawrence is a radical far-left liberal who puts his extreme climate agenda ahead of common sense and the priorities of hardworking Michiganders. Lawrence’s extreme agenda makes one thing clear: he is far too radical for Mid-Michigan and can’t be trusted to put Michigan families first.” – NRCC Spokesman Zach Bannon

Read more from Fox News here or see excerpts below:

Dem House candidate’s 2013 arrest resurfaces in pivotal race for control of Congress
Fox News
Elizabeth Elkind
August 24, 2026

A far-left candidate running for the House of Representatives in Michigan was arrested for resisting police during a 2013 protest.

William Lawrence, co-founder of the progressive Sunrise Movement, is challenging Rep. Tom Barrett, R-Mich., in one of the most closely-watched elections in the country. With so few congressional seats still expected to be up in the air, a victory there could be decisive for whichever party wins control in November.

Fox News Digital obtained documents that show Lawrence was among a group of people arrested in 2013 during a demonstration against the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline, a 645-mile piece of infrastructure running crude oil and natural gas between Wisconsin and Ontario — with Michigan in between.

He and others chained themselves to machinery in protest of the pipeline, which helps the U.S. meet critical energy needs but has also been a subject of pushback by environmental groups and indigenous tribes whose land the pipeline partially runs through.

The defendants were charged with trespassing, as well as resisting and obstructing a police officer. The documents stated that Lawrence and three others had to be cut off of the equipment but were then arrested without incident.

Lawrence himself previously posted on X, “Defund the Police!” in May 2020. A tweet the following month called to defund the Lansing, Michigan, police, specifically.

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