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Gov. Tim Walz Activates National Guard In Response To George Floyd Protests
WCCO ^ | May 28, 2020 | WCCO

Posted on 05/28/2020 5:06:00 PM PDT by Morgana

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Gov. Tim Walz has signed an executive order activating the Minnesota National Guard “to help protect Minnesotans’ safety and maintain peace in the wake of George Floyd’s death.” The executive order also declares a peacetime emergency, activating the State Emergency Operations Center.

Protests in South Minneapolis turned violent and destructive Wednesday night near the Minneapolis Police Department’s 3rd Precinct.

“It is time to rebuild. Rebuild the city, rebuild our justice system, and rebuild the relationship between law enforcement and those they’re charged to protect. George Floyd’s death should lead to justice and systemic change, not more death and destruction. As George Floyd’s family has said, ‘Floyd would not want people to get hurt. He lived his life protecting people.’ Let’s come together to rebuild, remember, and seek justice for George Floyd,” Walz said. “As Governor, I will always defend the right to protest. It is how we express pain, process tragedy, and create change. That is why I am answering our local leaders’ request for Minnesota National Guard assistance to protect peaceful demonstrators, neighbors, and small businesses in Minnesota.”

(Excerpt) Read more at minnesota.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: antifa; demagogicparty; democrat; georgefloyd; minneapolis; minnesota; moregana; nationalguard; nlz; policestate; riot; timwalz
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water canon?
1 posted on 05/28/2020 5:06:00 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

MN Gov Dem
Lt. Gov Dem
Minn Mayor Dem
City Council 12 dems 1 Green Party
Police chief dem Black
2 Dem U.S. Senators
Dem-majority State legislature
Dem Attorney General (Keith Ellison: Remember him?)

Trump’s fault!


2 posted on 05/28/2020 5:09:24 PM PDT by NoLibZone (We failed the single biggest test of our resolve. It's illegal to protest our government in public.)
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To: Morgana
And by "protests" they mean riots.
3 posted on 05/28/2020 5:09:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Morgana

A few A-10 Pases are needed.


4 posted on 05/28/2020 5:10:03 PM PDT by NoLibZone (We failed the single biggest test of our resolve. It's illegal to protest our government in public.)
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To: Morgana

And to think this began and was organized by two college students on facebook.....


5 posted on 05/28/2020 5:10:03 PM PDT by caww
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To: Morgana

game on?


6 posted on 05/28/2020 5:15:34 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: Morgana

Haven’t been keeping up.

Have they set fire to the stores they have looted, yet?


7 posted on 05/28/2020 5:16:42 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

the’ve trashed the place yes. I say just bring out the water canons. I’ve had enough.


8 posted on 05/28/2020 5:18:39 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

Looking at the videos and listening to some of the rioters interviewed it appears to me these are not George Floyd protestors but rather Antifa and Black Lives Matter professional rioters using George Floyd as an excuse.


9 posted on 05/28/2020 5:19:22 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Morgana; null and void
Steal a flat screen TV for justice!! Now, in Los Angeles, the power was still running on the stolen TV! Capacitors, no doubt.


10 posted on 05/28/2020 5:24:19 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: elpadre

Just in time for the elections.


11 posted on 05/28/2020 5:25:38 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (Welcf theome to North Mexico, Gringo's it...)
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National Guard??...awesome...well, my viewing is set for the night.....


12 posted on 05/28/2020 5:25:53 PM PDT by basalt
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To: Morgana

Some “woman of color” was just on the news saying that it was time to “shoot the white folk.” It was inevitable it would come to this. I’m afraid we are headed for a REAL hot summer.


13 posted on 05/28/2020 5:26:46 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: gathersnomoss

A little early it seems.


14 posted on 05/28/2020 5:27:49 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Anyone tired of the Chinese Fire Drill (tm) yet???)
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To: basalt

Can they be out there in time? Earliest mention I saw was a 4:00pm tweet. Not much time.


15 posted on 05/28/2020 5:32:22 PM PDT by Pollard (whatever)
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To: ought-six

If they start shooting white people on a large scale they will lose rapidly.


16 posted on 05/28/2020 5:40:25 PM PDT by riverrunner
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To: Morgana

Will the MN-NG “practice social distancing”?

/s


17 posted on 05/28/2020 5:41:18 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Morgana
Where was the rioting and looting when a black man shot an elderly white couple to death at a Veteran's cemetery last week? THIS WAS PRIOR TO THE FLOYD INCIDENT.

Same goes for the black kid who beat the crap out of a few elderly white people at a nursing home a few weeks ago. THIS WAS PRIOR TO THE FLOYD INCIDENT.

Maybe we're doing this all wrong?

18 posted on 05/28/2020 5:46:49 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Morgana

Microwave


19 posted on 05/28/2020 5:49:00 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ought-six
Some “woman of color” was just on the news saying that it was time to “shoot the white folk.”

Alrighty, then. I pray for your soul and the accuracy of my aim. Have a blessed day. :-)

20 posted on 05/28/2020 5:49:12 PM PDT by Thommas
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