Finally, Strong Action in Minneapolis Tamps Down the Violence

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/05/31/finally-strong-action-in-minneapolis-tamps-down-the-violence-n471542
https://www.startribune.com/swift-show-of-force-in-mpls-pushes-out-curfew-violators/570897132/

In Minneapolis, more than 4,000 National Guardsmen with thousands more on alert along with an overwhelming police presence kept the lid on the violence that had plagued the city the previous 3 nights. Dozens of people were arrested for violating curfew and other minor offenses as Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was sidelined by Governor Tim Walz because of what the governor called the city’s “abject failure” in quelling the violence. Walz vowed to restore order, calling out 10,000 National Guardsmen.

The deployment, along with pleas from community leaders for protesters to stay indoors, appeared to have had the desired result.
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The question asked by many in Minnesota is why the governor didn’t order the deployment of the National Guard sooner?

> Walz said that Thursday night he was following a process of waiting for Minneapolis leaders to request assistance before sending in the National Guard. “We were staying in the lane that we were asked to support this,” he said. But after watching the situation deteriorate around the Third Precinct, he said the decision was made shortly after midnight to move in. Soldiers arrived around 3:45 a.m. — by which time it had long been on fire.

> Gazelka said Walz should not be asking others for a plan. “It was obvious that the Minneapolis mayor was in over his head. And I think that’s where the governor needed to respond with emergency powers and commander-in-chief over our National Guard — the National Guard was simply waiting for a plan of action,” Gazelka said.

Weak, indecisive, and ineffective. And the barbarians took full advantage.