Frey and Walsh are failing...

But they have offered Covid-19 guidance. Please wear mask and social distance while looting and burning things down!

Yesterday the riots here in Minnesota (we can no longer say Minneapolis) started to spill out into adjoining cities. It started with destruction and looting of the St Paul Midway area and it just sort of grew from there. Last night they were at a mall (that I know well) in a northern suburb that is more than ten miles from Minneapolis.

Here in Farmington (the most south eastern of all twin cities suburbs) there were stores closing early in anticipation that we might start seeing the riots and looting make it's way down here. Many of the stores and public places in other cities around us were also closing. The Mall of America is no reopened as planned.

Obviously at this point Mayor Jacob Frey has done little other than to align himself with the protesters rioters/looters in what appears to be some sort of attempt at racial solidarity or something (Frey is white). Walz had activated 500 National Guards Soldiers which appears to be a drop in the bucket as nearly 200 stores have been destroyed and looted. The State Patrol is also sending in assistance. But there seems to be little in the manner of coordination or planning. Other than saying that they are being deployed or going to be assisting, I haven't heard what exactly these people have done or will be doing.

Meanwhile, the Governor acts as if this is already behind us?

“It is time to rebuild,” Walz said in a statement. “Rebuild the city, rebuild our justice system, and rebuild the relationship between law enforcement and those they’re charged to protect. George Floyd’s death should lead to justice and systemic change, not more death and destruction. As George Floyd’s family has said, ‘Floyd would not want people to get hurt. He lived his life protecting people.’ Let’s come together to rebuild, remember, and seek justice for George Floyd.”

No, it's actually time to put a stop to this nonsense, and as quickly as possible. We can all "come together" when things stop burning to the ground. As the President has stated, if Walz and Frey continue to show little spine in confronting this, then the Federal Government will step in. Perhaps that is what it would take, because right now there doesn't appear to be much leadership from those who should be showing it.