No part of Tim Walz’s tenure as governor is as egregious as his reckless disregard for the rule of law when Minneapolis burned during the 2020 riots.
Ever since Tim Walz was chosen as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, his record as governor of Minnesota has come under a deluge of public scrutiny, and rightfully so. No part of his tenure as governor, however, is as egregious as his reckless disregard for the rule of law when Minneapolis burned during the 2020 riots.
Right on cue, however, countless media “fact-checkers” dutifully swooped in to try to save Walz from the obviously rightful criticism of his disastrous handling of the situation. But they simply cannot hide from the truth.
Tim Walz let Minneapolis burn and in doing so, he ended up putting police in Minnesota and around the country right into a domestic war zone.
Many have pointed to the image of the Third Precinct in Minneapolis burning as the emblem of Tim Walz’s time as governor. It fits.
Minneapolis police officers tried to defend the Third Precinct for days until they could no longer hold. They waited for the Minnesota National Guard to show up, and those reinforcements never came.
Some will try to make the case that Minneapolis’ Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey deserved most of the blame for what happened during those nights in May 2020. What they either forget or choose to ignore is that the activation of the National Guard was Walz’s responsibility – and his responsibility alone – as governor.
According to a 2020 report in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, hardly a bastion of pro-police sentiment, Frey called Walz days before the precinct burned to ask for help, and he got none.
