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Walz bolsters Guard troops after 4th destructive night
Star Tribune ^ | May 30, 2020 | David Joles

Posted on 05/30/2020 8:28:15 AM PDT by kevcol

Gov. Tim Walz vowed Saturday to fully mobilize the National Guard to combat what he called a "tightly controlled" group of outside agitators who have turned city streets into scenes of looting and arson.
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By all accounts, law enforcement presence was almost undetectable as the violence rapidly accelerated until just before midnight and into early Saturday, when hundreds of police officers, state troopers and National Guard troops, some in armored vehicles, fanned out into troubled areas, confronting rioters with mass force, tear gas and orders to disperse issued via bullhorn.

And yet, those efforts had visibly little impact for much of the night, and questions swirled among citizens and politicians about how such a dire situation could have developed in a long peaceable, progressive city.

(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: looters; military; minneapolis; minnesota; riot; timwalz; violence
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To: Spktyr

“sending in unarmed Guard units”

Who says they are unarmed? Or, have no ammo?


41 posted on 05/30/2020 10:02:59 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: snarkytart
If you have any hope that the dismal response to this, which has left large chunks of thee city in ashes, will result in democrats having a change of heart and electing someone who isn't a leftist next time then I'll share a quick story.

Wilson Goode was a Democrat mayor of Philly - the first black man to hold the job - in the mid '80s and he so bungled a confrontation with left wing black radical activists that his own police force burned down an entire city block and all the activists (including their children) burned to death. This incompetent fool was re-elected two years later and he's still on the city council to this day. Philly hasn't has a republican mayor since the 1952.

Once the democrats have eliminated the publics ability to use logic and reason and get them to react solely on emotion, they can do anything and still win just by demonizing the other guy.

42 posted on 05/30/2020 10:24:45 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Once the democrats have eliminated ....clean elections and a local Constitutional Judiciary....


43 posted on 05/30/2020 10:26:23 AM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible")
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To: kevcol

Democratic Minnesota Gov Tim Walz Suggests ‘White Supremacists’ to Blame For Riots
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61491


44 posted on 05/30/2020 10:30:17 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: Voltage

#15 Roberts sides with liberals as Supreme Court backs special limits on church services
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/05/30/roberts-sides-with-liberals-as-supreme-court-backs-special-limits-on-church-services-927707


45 posted on 05/30/2020 10:33:11 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: cgbg

I wish someone would find these white supremacists. If they charge any, I bet they are Dimocrats.


46 posted on 05/30/2020 10:43:21 AM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: kevcol

Pouring gasoline to set a fire to destroy property is a felony. That person should have been shot dead.


47 posted on 05/30/2020 10:49:58 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: The Great RJ

Governor Walz and the mayor are criminals. This was planned and allowed to happen. They are trying to bait Trump to send in the military. I think he’ll just let them burn the town to the ground until the stupid voters wake up.


48 posted on 05/30/2020 11:27:51 AM PDT by Sodbuster
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To: Mariner

The governor and the troops themselves, the latter being photographed without arms or ammo.


49 posted on 05/30/2020 12:01:07 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Sodbuster

In 2018 MN-03 56% D, MN-04 66% D, MN-05 78% D were the winning percentages of the rats in the three house districts around Minneapolis.

The state law enforcers from governor, attorney general, county DA’s, and below no doubt voted in with similar percentages. They have all failed. Democrat Party will not harm their most reliable voting block and hold a sizable minority of them for violent activities.

Cannot retroactively change your votes. Make a wiser choice in November, if you still have property and health. Adults have to live with their decisions.


50 posted on 05/30/2020 12:05:03 PM PDT by bakkentom
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To: The Great RJ

Oops Minnesota. No doubt you expect another stimulus to pay for all this mayhem.

Remember that one hurricane season where insurance companies could not over all the damage. Will all the damage nationally be able to be covered without bankrupting the insurance companies.

Probably the insurance will get covered. Expect your rates to go sky high though. Another cost of voting in rat pols from governor on down.


51 posted on 05/30/2020 12:23:24 PM PDT by bakkentom
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To: snarkytart

Yes I saw this when I was watching his news conference this morning. Kept repeating it was “white supremacists”. Never mentioned Antifa or blm. This narrative will be repeated hundreds of times in the next few days by all the other dem governors that had riots. Concerted effort to blame the white people and the president. What is sad is people watching this unfold see that at least half if not more of the rioters are black and will still believe the narrative.


52 posted on 05/30/2020 12:54:42 PM PDT by alabama_heart
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To: Spktyr

“The governor and the troops themselves, the latter being photographed without arms or ammo.”

Disastrously stupid.

I’m surprised the troops have not mutinied.


53 posted on 05/30/2020 1:08:06 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: kevcol

Woman gazing at big piles of stolen ATM $20 bills.....

Not funny that it started a string of leftist riots and so much danger and suffering to people , but here’s my joke:

Too bad if that girl gets some of George Floyd’s counterfeit bills.


54 posted on 05/30/2020 1:49:03 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Queen of Excelsior

I am saying Antifa, so is Trump and Barr.


55 posted on 05/30/2020 4:04:58 PM PDT by kabar
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To: cgbg
William Barr singles out ‘radical, left-wing ANTIFA’
56 posted on 05/30/2020 4:07:46 PM PDT by kabar
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To: cableguymn

...no where to be found...
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Evidently, NW WI TV is all over this and according to friends the NG sat around for 14 hrs before acting at all.


57 posted on 05/30/2020 7:03:39 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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