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   “Tim Walz let Minnesota burn. Kamala Harris bailed out the ones who lit the   
   matches,” posted former president and 2024 Republican nominee Donald J.   
   Trump on his Truth Social platform last week. Although Trump’s campaign   
   reeled from the Democrats’    
   sudden change from incumbent President Joe Biden to Vice President Kamala   
   Harris last month, a coherent message may now be in sight.   
      
   Trump acolytes certainly appear to see it that way, with a rising number of   
   talking heads and likeminded journalists bringing up Walz’s questionable   
   record as Minnesota’s governor during the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots,   
   among other foibles.   
      
   In the “twin cities” of Minneapolis and St. Paul, crime rates spiked 75   
   percent that year; murder rates are still 50 percent higher than they were in   
   2019. According to Minneapolis’s progressive mayor Jacob Frey, Walz refused   
   to deploy 600 of the    
   state’s national guardsmen for 18 critical hours as the riots devastated his   
   city’s downtown, destroying numerous businesses and a police station.   
   Sitting in the safety of the governor’s residence in St. Paul, meanwhile,   
   Minnesota’s first lady    
   Gwen Walz left the windows open so that she might, as she told a local   
   television station, “smell the burning tires,” which she hailed as a   
   “very real thing.” Walz eventually deployed 100 guardsmen, who were   
   reportedly too few in number to    
   control the situation.   
      
   Then, just weeks away from being chosen as Biden’s vice presidential   
   nominee, Kamala Harris urged her Twitter (now X) followers “to help post   
   bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota” by donating to the   
   Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF).    
   That organization quickly collected $35 million, which it then used to bail   
   out violent criminals, including some who had no connection to the riots but   
   were merely minority criminal suspects and therefore “victims” of a   
   “structurally racist”    
   criminal justice system.   
      
   Those released with the help of MFF funds have included such model citizens as   
   Christopher Boswell, who had twice been convicted of rape and charged with 10   
   other felonies, including attempted rape, kidnapping, and sexual assault. MFF   
   handed over $350,   
   000 to get him out of prison. Within months, Boswell was wanted on new felony   
   counts relating to violations of his release. In December 2022, he was   
   rearrested after kidnapping and torturing his girlfriend, crimes for which he   
   was convicted and jailed    
   the following year.   
      
   Donavan Boone got $3,000 from MFF to cover his bail for breaking into his   
   girlfriend’s home and choking her. In 2022, he was rearrested on unrelated   
   burglary charges, convicted, and sentenced to prison.   
      
   Shawn Michael Tillman, who was bailed out by MFF after an arrest for indecent   
   exposure, went on to murder a passenger on St. Paul’s public transit system   
   in 2022. This March, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole for   
   that crime.   
      
   In late July, as Harris was consolidating Democratic support but before Walz   
   emerged as a contender for the bottom half of her ticket, some criticism of   
   these cases emerged. Now that Walz is Harris’s vice-presidential candidate,   
   however, that issue    
   could emerge as the strongest arrow against them.   
      
   Notwithstanding progressive claptrap about “mostly peaceful” protests and   
   false claims about falling crime rates, a Pew Research study conducted in   
   April revealed that 61 percent of voters—including 40 percent of then-Biden   
   supporters—believed    
   the criminal justice system is “not tough enough on criminals,” while just   
   13 percent believed it is “too tough.” Last November, Gallup released a   
   survey finding that 63 percent of voters identify crime as a “extremely or   
   very serious issue,”    
   ranking it nearly on par with border control, illegal immigration, and the   
   economy.   
      
      
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