Gov. Walz is again inflaming the mob. He is effectively declaring this to be the murder of a citizen who had a permit to carry this weapon. He is saying that the state not the federal government will control the investigation. He does not have that authority...
...The state can clearly have a parallel investigation and the federal government can do a joint investigation. However, he cannot dictate how or who will conduct the investigation...
...With thousands in the streets, Walz just did all that he could to give them license for their rage. Most of us would never call this a lawful or unlawful shooting based on one videotape...
...Walz calling for his own investigation is a bit odd when he is actively engaged in his version of Red Queen justice of a "sentence first -- verdict afterwards...
...Walz just said "quit referring to these people as law enforcement." That is a new low from the governor. These are law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line every day. To say that they are not law enforcement is to further enable the rage...
...Walz just said we are being "shot in the face coming out of donut shops." This is not a presser, it is a rage fest by Walz...
...Bob Jacobson just admitted that they had to leave the crime scene because they did not have enough personnel to control the area. That is quite an admission after the Governor said that he had all of the personnel he needed to keep the peace. They could not even hold a crime scene without retreating...
...Walz is blaming the feds for creating "chaos" and then leaving the scene. It ignores the lack of coordination and assistance from the state in these operations...
...Walz is saying that they are "slandering this individual" and saying that the federal government "does not want you to trust your eyes and ears." In other words, he is conveying, again, that the facts are clear from the video. ..
......Once again, it is not. We cannot see the subject's hands and do not know what was unfolding in this struggle on the grounds to reach a decision either way...
...I am still dumbfounded by Walz's presser. It was logically incoherent. He was calling for a state investigation while telling citizens to believe their own eyes based on a video taken from across the street through a window...
...The video (again shot from across the street over cars) does not show what the man is doing as he obviously resists his arrest. Yet Walz offers a sputtering, chest-thumping press conference that insisted that these officers should not be viewed as actual law enforcement.
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