In the spring of 2020, after people had taken to the streets in Minneapolis, Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz admitted there was an “abject failure” in the response to the rioters who burned businesses and a police precinct.
Walz, now the Democrats’ 2024 vice presidential nominee, said during a press conference addressing the riots, “Minneapolis and St. Paul are on fire. The fire is still smoldering in our streets. The ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish unheard,” PBS reported. He added that he received a call from a state senator who told him that her district was “on fire, no police, no firefighters, no social control, constituents locked in houses wondering what they were going to do.”
“That is an abject failure that cannot happen,” Walz added.
The governor, who had the authority to activate the National Guard, then shifted the responsibility to city leaders to quell the riots, saying requests for assistance from city leaders…