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   From: democrat@crimes.usa   
      
   Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s fingerprints are all over the   
   deadly black riots that consumed Minneapolis and St. Paul in the summer of   
   2020 — their cheerleading and inaction giving cover to criminals as   
   neighborhoods burned and hundreds    
   of businesses were ransacked and destroyed.   
      
   In the wake of the murder of George Floyd, lawlessness reigned as city streets   
   erupted in a nightmarish hellscape of violence and flames.   
      
   “The civil unrest that happened in Minnesota was unprecedented, it was a   
   once-in-100-years thing. Nobody expected it, nobody planned for it,” Dr. Ali   
   Barbarawi, a Minneapolis dentist who grew up in the West Bank, told The Post.   
      
   Crime skyrocketed – with murders jumping 75% in 2020 compared to the prior   
   year, and then rising even more 2021. Killings have dropped, but are still 50%   
   above 2019 levels.   
      
   Many of the businesses that were damaged were small, family-run operations,   
   and Barbarawi — whose office was destroyed in the riots — said owners   
   hoped they would one day be made whole after order was restored.   
      
   “People were expecting a lot more help from the government on a larger   
   scale. It was a disaster and when disaster happens, people expect help from   
   either the city, state or federal government,” he said.   
      
   “That didn’t happen much. There were some state-level grants but not for   
   everybody, and not at a level business owners were expecting.”   
      
   During the riots, some business owners took desperate measures to keep their   
   livelihoods safe from the raging masses, many described waiting for help that   
   would never arrive.   
      
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   As his state’s largest city was engulfed in flames, Walz held off on   
   mobilizing the Minnesota National Guard for a full 18 hours after Minnesota   
   Mayor Jacob Frey said he desperately needed at least 600 National Guardsmen to   
   bring things under control.   
      
   When Walz finally decided to act the night of May 28, 2020, he sent only 100   
   guardsmen, a scathing post-mortem from the state’s Senate revealed later   
   that year.   
      
   Those that did arrive did little to stop the carnage, according to Minneapolis   
   residents.   
      
   Ricardo Hernandez, 44, owner of La Michoacana Purepecha ice cream shop at 701   
   East Lake Street, pleaded with the National Guardsmen to intervene as rioters   
   doused the businesses next door with gasoline.   
      
   When they refused, he said he had to negotiate with the demonstrators himself.   
      
   “Walz should have had the National Guard out there sooner before the damage   
   was done,” Hernandez said.   
      
   “He told the National Guard to stand still.”   
      
   To avoid the same fate for his own shop, he stayed there so he could stand   
   guard.   
      
   “If I wasn’t there, my business would have been burned down.”   
      
   David Hann, the chairman of the Minnesota Republican Party, told The Post he   
   believes Walz was reluctant to act during the Black Lives Matter protests   
   because he didn’t want to betray left-wing progressives.   
      
   “I think as governor of the state and relying on that progressive base, he   
   knows that that’s where the political power is, in the Democratic Party. So   
   he can’t… abandon that without risk of hurting his status as a political   
   leader,” he said.   
      
   “The city has still not recovered.”   
      
   Equally troubling, the governor — who took office in 2019 — was also   
   accused of sharing confidential information with his teenage daughter,   
   including law enforcement plans and National Guard response times.   
      
      
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