Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's record amid the 2020 George Floyd riots in Minneapolis has received renewed scrutiny after Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, selected him as her running mate.
"Minnesota was ground zero for the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020. Harris egged it on, and Walz sat by and let Minneapolis burn," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, posted on X on Tuesday.
A time line of the riots in Minneapolis will help explain Walz's record.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat, called Walz at 6:29 p.m. that evening, asking him to send in the National Guard, the Minneapolis Star Tribune later reported.
As the Star Tribune reported, soldiers went to other locations, including the Capitol in St. Paul, but troops did not arrive at the south Minneapolis area of the Third Precinct-the site of the worst rioting-until almost 4 a.m. on Friday, May 29, by which time most rioters had left and the precinct had been burning for hours.
At 1:30 a.m., Walz and Frey held an emergency press conference, begging the rioters to go home.
After four nights of violent riots, the National Guard finally restored relative order, suggesting that Walz could have prevented much of the destruction.
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