Murphy Tells Counter Protesters to Stay Home By Fred Snowflack | January 11, 2021, 2:29 pm | in Columnist As Phil Murphy was holding his COVID briefing today, reports reverberated throughout the land about FBI warnings of armed protests by right-wing groups beginning Sunday in all 50 states. “We’re very much aware,” the governor said of whatever is planned for Sunday. Protests at state capitols are common, but in the wake of last week’s “insurrection” in Washington, there’s probably nothing common about police preparation. Typically, neither Murphy, nor Pat Callahan, the head of the State Police, or Jared Maples, the state’s Homeland Security director, gave details of their plans.