Posted on 08/11/2024 6:00:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The riots and looting that took place over the summer of 2020 aren’t easily forgotten–especially by Minnesota residents who watched their cities burn for weeks on end.
While many would like to leave the riots in the past, these events remain inseparably connected to Democratic presidential frontrunners Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
GOP Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance was one of the first to address what’s being called the “burn-and-bail” team of politicians who allowed Minnesota to be burned and looted for days on end and who helped to bail the rioters out of jail.
Walz faced sharp criticism for his reluctance to decisively respond to the riots before they spiraled out of control with the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct police station being overrun and destroyed by arsonists.
A 2020 Minnesota Senate report on the riots bluntly stated:
“Governor Walz had the ability and duty to use force and law enforcement to stop criminal violence, but he did not. Governor Walz was not willing to do what was necessary to stop the rioting right away because he was having a philosophical debate about whether the use of force should be used to stop violence.”
At least two people were killed and more than 600 arrested as rioters caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage across Minnesota.
The other side of the burn-and-bail ticket is seen in Kamala Harris’s efforts to raise funds for the Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF) to bail rioters and other accused violent criminals out of jail.
Though Harris is carefully tiptoeing around the issue by saying she never personally donated to the MFF, it’s clear she was encouraging others to do so.
Harris continues to support the MFF on the Act Blue website where her image appears along with a plea to support “those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.”
The MFF is a non-profit organization dedicated to bailing out individuals–primarily racial minorities–from Twin Cities jails. The group’s stated purpose is to address what it perceives as unfairness in the criminal justice system.
The MFF has received more than $35 million in donations since the killing of George Floyd and with the help of high profile advocates like Kamala Harris, Cynthia Nixon and Seth Rogen.
But the funds raised also being used to bail out those accused of violent crimes, including defendants charged with murder, violent felonies, and sex crimes.
Harris’s support for MFF has prompted a Trump super PAC to release one of the strongest political ads of this election cycle.
Harris and Walz have near universal support from big tech and the legacy media but it may not be enough to overcome the voters’ memories of how the two of them contributed to the lawlessness of 2020.
Burning cities was just the Democrat method of bringing pain to blue minority areas to make them turn to the government to bail them out.The government has to cause maximum pain and damage so they can be the savior. Fire is the democrat weapon of choice.
Both incredible and true. And now they are poised to control what once was the finest and most powerful nation on the planet.
Yup. The BLM left was primed and ready to launch race riots across America in 2020 to inflict maximum damage on Trump’s reelection. BLM buses rolled into cities and burned and looted them. Putz’s weak response set the example for other progressive governors and mayors. Not to mention that these riots occurred at the peak of Covid lockdowns. Despicable hypocrisy.
Arson is the cheapest form of demolition if you want to rebuild everything.
Pelosi and friends were ready to swoop in with their insider trading scams to line their pockets. COVID and BLM were tools the democrats needed to play their insider trading game.Losing control would end their scam.
The Dynamic Duo. What will they do the country?
Walz allowing Minneapolis to burn for four days and Kamala encouraging people to donate to bail funds to free the rioters should have ended their political careers on the spot - and would have during previous better times.
Unfortunately, we have many stupid, uninformed voters who overlook the characters of these two subversives, ignore their lefty records (especially Walz)and overlook their hypocrisy and lying.
Yet, if I am to believe the latest polls, Harris/Walz are ahead in the swing states now. Trump should be winning by 80 points or more.
She isn’t eligible.
Its the same cycle on repeat…. Pick your crisis..
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