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Tim Walz responded slowly to George Floyd BLM riots

Kamala Harris' pick for VP, Tim Walz, was criticized years ago for his slow response to the BLM riots when George Floyd died in 2020. There was looting, people burning down buildings, and tons of violence during the BLM riots. Nothing like stealing some sneakers and a flat screen TV to show your love for George Floyd, but the worst of it came when Tim Walz was slow to respond. He could have deployed more law enforcement or the National Guard from day one, but he didn't. It was so bad, that even the NY Times reported on his slow response. If Tim Walz freezes under pressure on a local scale, then imagine how bad he could be on a national scale. The report on <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/us/tim-walz-george-floyd-criticism.html" target="_blank">NY Times said</a>:<br /><br /> <blockquote> <div>Looting, arson and violence followed, quickly overwhelming the local authorities, and some faulted Mr. Walz for not doing more and not moving faster to bring the situation under control with Minnesota National Guard troops and other state officials.</div> <div> </div> <div>Two days after Mr. Floyd’s death, with protests in Minneapolis turning increasingly violent, the city’s mayor, Jacob Frey, asked Mr. Walz to deploy the National Guard. Hours later, the city’s police chief submitted a written request for 600 troops. But it was not until the next afternoon that Mr. Walz signed an executive order allowing the Guard to assist cities.</div> <div> </div> <div>“It was obvious to me that he froze under pressure, under a calamity, as people’s properties were being burned down,” said State Senator Warren Limmer, a Republican who helped lead a committee that investigated the response to the unrest. He suggested that Mr. Walz’s personal sympathies toward protesters might have delayed a muscular response.</div> </blockquote>
Tim Walz responded slowly to George Floyd BLM riots
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MGT suggested Democrats who worship George Floyd should shut up about Trump

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is livid and reminding Democrats who worship George Floyd may want to shut up about Donald Trump's felony conviction. MTG is ticked off, cussing, and very mad in the video. When doing some Google searches on George Floyd's criminal history, it shows he was arrested multiple times. Britannica reported the following on George Floyd, who social media users call the Patron Saint of Fentanyl. The <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Floyd" target="_blank">biography of George Floyd said</a>:<br /> <blockquote> <p>In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Floyd was arrested and imprisoned multiple times, mostly for nonviolent drug offenses. Unable to afford a lawyer, he pleaded guilty each time and served several monthslong stints in jail. His legal troubles increased as politicians and police across the country pushed the War on Drugs, which disproportionately targeted young Black men like Floyd, often with devastating consequences. Upon becoming a felon—after an $18 drug deal landed him in jail for six months, a time during which Floyd said he developed claustrophobia—Floyd quickly found his options for legitimate work largely disappear. He soon fell from dealing drugs to using them and told officers during a 2002 arrest that he suffered from a substance abuse problem and depression. He received no treatment but was sent to jail for eight months.</p> <p>Floyd’s most serious prison stint came after he pleaded guilty to participating in a 2007 armed robbery of a home where a young mother was staying with her children. The woman told police that she was not sure whether Floyd was the culprit, and Floyd told friends that he was not guilty and that he thought he would not get a fair trial. Facing the prospect of a 40-year prison sentence if convicted, he accepted a plea deal that sent him to prison for five years, during which time his claustrophobia worsened.</p> </blockquote>
MGT suggested Democrats who worship George Floyd should shut up about Trump
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