Kamala Harris' pick for VP, Tim Walz, was criticized years ago for his slow response to the BLM riots when George Floyd died in 2020. There was looting, people burning down buildings, and tons of violence during the BLM riots. Nothing like stealing some sneakers and a flat screen TV to show your love for George Floyd, but the worst of it came when Tim Walz was slow to respond. He could have deployed more law enforcement or the National Guard from day one, but he didn't. It was so bad, that even the NY Times reported on his slow response. If Tim Walz freezes under pressure on a local scale, then imagine how bad he could be on a national scale. The report on NY Times said:
Looting, arson and violence followed, quickly overwhelming the local authorities, and some faulted Mr. Walz for not doing more and not moving faster to bring the situation under control with Minnesota National Guard troops and other state officials.
Two days after Mr. Floyd’s death, with protests in Minneapolis turning increasingly violent, the city’s mayor, Jacob Frey, asked Mr. Walz to deploy the National Guard. Hours later, the city’s police chief submitted a written request for 600 troops. But it was not until the next afternoon that Mr. Walz signed an executive order allowing the Guard to assist cities.
“It was obvious to me that he froze under pressure, under a calamity, as people’s properties were being burned down,” said State Senator Warren Limmer, a Republican who helped lead a committee that investigated the response to the unrest. He suggested that Mr. Walz’s personal sympathies toward protesters might have delayed a muscular response.
