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   2020 Minneapolis riots resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in damage   
      
   Vice President Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, claimed   
   responsibility for preventing riots in Minneapolis in the spring of 2020 as   
   the city spiraled into chaos and destruction, recently unearthed comments   
   show.  "The responsibility to    
   ensure it doesn't happen falls upon me, and I will do everything in my power   
   to do that,"   
      
   Walz told the media on May 29, 2020, when asked if "we're not going to see a   
   repeat of the unrest last night, tonight or for the rest of the weekend."   
      
   Walz noted that he couldn’t "assure" the media that riots wouldn’t   
   continue to unfold, but he highlighted that it was his personal responsibility   
   to work to prevent destruction. "As I said, I spent, myself, 24 years in the   
   National Guard. I’m    
   surrounded by good people. We’re pulling the assets, and I’m going to need   
   the help of Minnesotans, like we do on a lot of this. I’m going to need   
   folks to cooperate to get this through. I want to acknowledge, again, that   
   pain that people are    
   feeling, the need to get justice," he continued.   
      
   TIM WALZ'S BLM RIOTS RESPONSE LEFT MINNESOTA HUSBAND, DAD OF 2 'DISGUSTED':   
   'CAN'T BELIEVE' PEOPLE SUPPORT HIM   
   Minneapolis was the epicenter of the 2020 riots, which were sparked when   
   George Floyd, a Black man, died at the hands of a White officer during a   
   police encounter in the city. Floyd’s death was followed by social justice   
   protests and riots across the    
   nation, which came at a time when COVID-19 cases and government-mandated   
   lockdown measures meant to control the pandemic upended society in   
   unprecedented ways ahead of the 2020 election.   
      
   After Walz’s comments on May 29, 2020, Minneapolis was again rocked by riots   
   that evening, according to local media reports.  "Protesters blanketed the   
   area near the Fifth Precinct, heavily damaging at least seven buildings –   
   including a U.S. Post    
   Office, a Wells Fargo branch, a staffing agency and a Subway in a nearby strip   
   mall," the Star Tribune reported at the time.   
      
   The outlet in a separate article described the evening of May 29 into the   
   following morning as "perhaps the worst night in [Minneapolis’] history" as   
   residents of an apartment building recalled jumping out of bed at 4 a.m. while   
   a neighboring building    
   that housed an O'Reilly Auto Parts store and a Family Dollar burned. More than   
   1,500 buildings in the city were damaged or destroyed due to the riots,   
   resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.   
      
   TRUMP PRAISED WALZ'S GEORGE FLOYD RIOT RESPONSE IN 2020, AUDIO SHOWS: 'VERY   
   HAPPY'   
      
   "Where I live now, people are disgusted by Tim Walz. But where I live now   
   doesn’t represent a large swath of Minnesota’s population," Max Rymer, who   
   moved with his wife and two children from a neighborhood south of downtown   
   Minneapolis to a suburb    
   about 45 minutes north of the city in 2020, told Fox News Digital in a   
   previous comment this week.   
      
   Rymer is running as a Republican for the Minnesota House of Representatives   
   and said he "still can't believe there are people in the state who support the   
   guy after" what residents "have been through the last four years." Walz   
   deployed the Minnesota    
   National Guard on May 30, with the state’s National Guard saying at the time   
   that it was "'all-in' to restore order." The riots plaguing the Twin Cities   
   were "no longer in any way about the murder of George Floyd," said Walz at the   
   time.   
      
   WALZ SLAMMED FOR ‘HESITATING’ TO SEND IN GUARD AS HIS DAUGHTER TIPPED OFF   
   RIOTERS VIA SOCIAL MEDIA   
      
   "Our great cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are under assault," Walz said.   
   "The situation in Minneapolis is now about attacking civil society, instilling   
   fear and disrupting our great city." The move earned praise from   
   then-President Trump, who lauded    
   Walz in a phone call with governors. "What they did in Minneapolis was   
   incredible.   
      
      
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