Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz responded to the shooting that left one woman dead in Minneapolis.
An ICE agent shot and killed a woman who allegedly tried to run him over.
I know I’m late to this, but the clips I found are too short. I needed to transcribe the press conference to make sure I don’t give you guys out-of-context content.
Did Walz imply that Minnesota is at war with the federal government? Sounds like it:
Well, I said this yesterday. We’ve never been at war with our federal government.
Yes, Walz threatened to deploy the Minnesota National Guard against DHS and ICE. It’s a “heads up” that they might be mobilized:
They have a dual mission. There’s there’s the federal mission, when they’re under Title 10 orders, and then they’re under Title 32 orders, and this Warning Order. There’s nothing officially been done yet. If I am to activate them as the Commander in Chief of the Minnesota National Guard, I will issue the executive order to the Minnesota National Guard, and then they will be put in state duty status. And as you’ve seen over the last few years, that could be flood prevention, that could be after a wind blowing storm up in the north, up in Bemidji, or it could be COVID or George Floyd response. In this case, again, it doesn’t necessarily change the mission. They’re there to protect Minnesotans. They’re there to serve Minnesotans. I think the thing that is so challenging in the moment we’re in is we don’t see a desire to work with us on public safety.
Walz also repeated the lies that the 2020 George Floyd riots were mostly peaceful:
They’re not here to cause the hassles to you or what we saw today, the tragedy, having them at the ready to make sure, because when we see these types of things happen, and we saw it after the murder of George Floyd, there’s folks that want to cause chaos. There’s the disruptors in it, and why the vast majority of those protests were peaceful expressions their First Amendment rights. There were those that destroyed property and put people at risk. The National Guard is there to make sure that peaceful protests are able to be done and that those that want to do the destruction are stopped from doing that.
Walz said he hopes America has its “McCarthy moment” regarding the immigration raids across the country. He obviously means Joe McCarthy, who birthed “McCarthyism,” which means causing fear due to unsubstantiated accusations and public shaming.
I’m not saying that’s what is happening, just explaining what Walz means. It’s odd, though, because what he said next sounds like advice he should be taking himself:
And so look, I want to be very cautious here, because Donald Trump will make this about me. He will make this about politics. This is about public safety, and this about normalcy.To Americans who are watching this, if you’re in Portland or you’re in LA, or you’re in Chicago, or you’re wherever they’re coming next, stand with us. Stand with us. Against this, this. This was so so preventable, so unnecessary, and I don’t know, I hope maybe we’re at the McCarthy moment.Do you have no decency? Do you have no decency? We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever, and and I, I don’t, I don’t want to be right about this, but I said, if they do this, they’re going to create a chaotic situation where someone innocent is going to get killed. And they did it, and now we hear more political rhetoric.Enough. Enough is enough, and so to Minnesotans, don’t take the bait. Do not take the bait. Do not allow them to deploy federal troops into here. Do not allow them to invoke the insurrection act. Do not allow them to declare martial law. Do not allow them to lie about the security and the decency of this state. And let’s let this investigation play itself out. Let’s make sure we protect our neighbors. I encourage you to use your first amendment rights and all of your constitutional rights, but do so in a peaceful manner.
Yes, let’s let the investigation play out, even though you literally just said you have someone dead in their car for no reason.
Sheesh, everyone, take a breather.
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