Is there any question about this? Not among the people who lived through it, especially the law-enforcement agencies in the Twin Cities in May and June of 2020. Furthermore, the record itself offers unusual clarity on how the riots unfolded, and how the response … didn’t.
Now that Kamala Harris has chosen Tim Walz as her running mate, however, the media suddenly seems very uninterested in delving into Walz’ actual record as an executive in a crisis. They prefer to play Republicans Pounce!™ with his fabulist claims of combat duty in the National Guard, which former educator Walz now chalks up tp “bad grammar.” Almost no media outlet has even bothered to remind people how Walz sat on his hands for nearly five days before finally authorizing the National Guard to restore order in Minneapolis — days after allowing rioters to destroy the Minneapolis PD’s Third Precinct building.
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