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Retired ‘CSM’ Tim Walz Mocked NG Troops As '19-Year-Old Cooks' When Refusing to Deploy Them in Minneapolis

2024-08-13

[RedState] As Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and his police chief were frantically calling Governor Tim Walz in the summer of 2020 to save a besieged police precinct, Governor Tim Walz refused to send National Guard soldiers to help the beleaguered police officers. Later, in rationalizing and justifying his conscious decision to let riots metastasize, Walz said the Guard wasn't up to the task.

I don’t think the mayor knew what he was asking for. He wanted the National Guard, and what does that mean? I think the mayor said, 'I request the National Guard, whew, this is great. We’re going to have massively trained troops.' No, you’re going to have 19-year-olds who are cooks, in some cases.

He went on to say, "Putting a young troop with limited experience in the military with a loaded automatic weapon in the middle of a system with no one giving him direction -- they don’t have zip ties. They don’t have legal authority,"

That was on Wednesday, by the time Walz finally authorized the deployment of "19-year-old" cooks, the Minneapolis Third Precinct had been sacked, and the riots were widespread.

As a former National Guardsman, Walz's answers and responses sound blatantly dishonest. He should have trained in crowd control at some point in his career and would have known that you don't put troops on the streets with automatic weapons until things have gone pear-shaped in a major way. From personal experience, I was deployed as part of an Operation GARDEN PLOT exercise to secure a real nuclear weapons storage facility against a sizeable force of role-players. Even under those circumstances, I had a strict progression in the use of force to follow. You didn't load weapons until you were in extremis. I find it hard to believe that an organization that has managing civil disturbances as a primary mission would not have rules on the use of force.

According to a disgustingly servile "fact check" by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that is supposed to prove that Walz did all he could to stop the riots, the Minneapolis mayor asked for troops at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday; the police chief contacted Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington shortly after 8 p.m., asking for the Guard and providing “mission plan” details. The first Guardsmen arrived at around 3:45 a.m. on Friday. What happened? Did the 19-year-old cooks get replaced?

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