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   The criticism against Gov. Tim Walz’s handling of the Minneapolis riot is   
   well-earned   
      
   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 Walzâ   
   €™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.   
      
   After getting a call from his chief of police early in the evening of May 27,   
   the second night of rioting, Frey said he called Walz and asked for National   
   Guard support. "We expressed the seriousness of the situation. The urgency was   
   clear," Frey told    
   the newspaper. The mayor added that the governor "did not say yes" but only   
   that "he would consider it."   
      
   The mayor’s office followed up with a written request again the next   
   morning, even noting that first responders had been injured the night before.   
   That night, Minneapolis’ Third Precinct station would go up in flames.   
      
   Instead of following his duty to maintain law and order and protect the   
   law-abiding residents of Minneapolis, instead of standing with the law   
   enforcement officers whose lives were in imminent danger, Walz just let it   
   burn.   
      
   Then, the violence spread.   
      
   From Seattle to Portland to Atlanta to Washington, D.C., the example set by   
   Tim Walz’s radical dereliction of duty and disdain for the rule of law   
   became a template for emboldened criminals and weak politicians around the   
   country.   
      
   Meanwhile, many of those police departments across the country were trying to   
   protect and serve their neighbors and fellow citizens from this nightly chaos   
   while dealing with the budget and manpower constraints imposed upon them by   
   the so-called "defund    
   the police" movement – something that Walz also publicly supported at the   
   time. They were outnumbered and surrounded on all sides.   
      
   Even without nightly riots, first responders have it hard enough. They show up   
   every day knowing that they might not make it home that night. They choose to   
   do this job because of the knowledge that the law will not enforce itself,   
   that there will always    
   be people willing to break it, and that – without someone to stand in the   
   way – innocent Americans will get hurt as a result.   
      
   That’s why the Pipe Hitter Foundation exists; we defend the men and women   
   who defend America. We stand up police, other first responders and military   
   personnel by providing legal assistance, fighting for the public policies they   
   deserve, and keeping    
   the public informed about what they’re going through. We have their backs so   
   they can have ours.   
      
      
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