Laura Ingraham recaps the aftermath of George Floyd riots and what it means for Minneapolis residents in a recent interview.
After 2020 riots over George Floyd’s death, some in Minnesota began to wonder if the state was being led. The same issues have now been applied nationally to the country’s leadership as Walz, who is 60 years old, becomes Vice President Harris’ running mate for 2024.
“Where I live now, people are disgusted by Tim Walz. But where I live now doesn’t represent a large swath of Minnesota’s population,” Max Rymer, who moved with his wife and two children from a neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis to a suburb about 45 minutes north of the city in 2020, told Fox News Digital.
Rymer, who is a Republican candidate for the Minnesota House of Representatives District 28B said he “still can’t believe there are people in the state who support the guy after” what residents “have been through the last four years.”
Further Minnesota grievances have included the COVID-19 lockdowns that closed businesses, damage from more than 360 city-wide George Floyd riots, and voluntary evacuations in anticipation of violence due to Daunte Wright’s recent shooting death. Of all ISIS recruits in the country, 25% are from Minnesota, writes American Experiment.
In 2020, riots were so severe that a Minneapolis police precinct was burnt to the ground.
In 2021 Minneapolis business owners Lloyd Drilling and Elijah Fhima told Fox News’ Martha McCallum how they called the police after an alarm during the riots, but no response came for half-an-hour before being informed by both their alarm company and police that it was too tough to respond because agencies were overwhelmed.
Likewise, less than a year earlier in 2020, Charles Stotts and Kacey White remembered receiving that phone call around 4:30 am on May 29—Stotts said they were told to “turn on the TV real quick.” Their historic downtown restaurant was now on fire and they watched in horror.
When it was safe to do so, Stotts and White made their way back over the church lot with disbelief as they approached their business. “To actually see the historic sign in the rubble, it’s really emotional,” White said.
Rymer viewed Walz as an “uber progressive,” but said, “Maybe he hasn’t always been that way, but he’s governed that way.”
However, Minnesota Democratic House Speaker has said “Governor Walz has been a strong leader, a great partner with the [l]egislature. We worked together over the last two years on the most productive session in Minnesota in decades, passing policies that will help Minnesotans build better lives for themselves and their families.”
