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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison praised Gov. Tim Walz for getting their state through times of crisis with a "steady hand," referencing both the COVID pandemic and protests following the police killing of George Floyd. Watch Ellison's remarks in the player above. "It's one of the reasons I ...
Donalds also said Walz had a delayed response to the Minneapolis violence after the killing of George Floyd, noting that the areas affected by violence "mostly are inhabited by Black people and Hispanic people — that’s what was burning." Donalds also made brief mention of the Day 1 DNC delays ...
... crime data analysts generally attribute most of the reason for the murder spike to a confluence of the coronavirus pandemic and the social upheaval following George Floyd’s murder, not Trump’s actions. Economy Biden: The average semiconductor industry salary "will be over $100,000 a year, and you don ...
... court just months before — and imposing a moratorium on the death penalty. In May 2020, violent protests erupted in Minneapolis over the police killing of George Floyd, a Black man. A police station was torched and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who is now Harris' running mate, called in the National ...
... and taking hostages, Samuels said she's one-sided and divisive. He also stressed public safety issues in Minneapolis, where a former police officer murdered George Floyd in 2020. Samuels said he was "very disappointed" with his loss. "What I was hoping is that a strong ground game and an ...
... the public safety issues he focused on in 2022. The big issue at the time was policing in Minneapolis, where a former police officer murdered George Floyd in 2020. The winner in the overwhelmingly Democratic district will face Republican Dalia Al-Aqidi, an Iraqi American journalist and self-described secular ...
... Kamala Harris was helping to bail the rioters and looters out of jail.Amna Nawaz: He was referring to protests following the police killing of George Floyd, some of which turned violent. As Minnesota's governor, Walz called in the National Guard after several days. Some say he was slow ...
... party to felony murder in connection with D’Vontaye Mitchell’s death. Mitchell was Black. The incident has drawn comparisons to the murder of George Floyd, a Black man who died in 2020 after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into his neck for about nine minutes. Floyd ...
... here are very critical of his time during the pandemic in particular. We had a lot of lockdowns. Of course, we had the riots following George Floyd's murder and were very critical of him being slow to send the National Guard out. Also, during the pandemic, we had the ...
... Readers can email us suggestions to truthometer@politifact.com. Republicans have already begun to question Walz’s handling of the rioting following the murder of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody. Walz clashed with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over how to handle the unrest, but he sent the Minnesota ...
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