And unrest happening in minneapolis in response to the death of mr. Floyd. Gov. Walz good morning, everyone. This has been the most difficult week in minnesota in recent history and maybe in our entire history. Our community, especially our black community, is hurting beyond words. Minneapolis and st. Paul are on fire. The fires are still smoldering in our streets. The ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish, much like we failed unheard, much like we failed to hear george floyd as he pleaded for his life as the world watched by people sworn to protect him, his community, our state. Philando castile, silenced, unheard, so many other friends, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers senselessly died in our street. And now generations of pain is manifesting itself in front of the world, and the world is watching. One of the first people i called after seeing the video was valerie castile, philandos mother. We have become friends since the killing of philando. For thos
Rights investigation into the Minneapolis Police department, designed to eliminate racism. This is one hour. Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon, minnesota. A beautiful early summer day in minnesota. Gov. Walz good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon, minnesota. A beautiful early summer day in minnesota. I just want to give a heartfelt thank you to a lot of people for the peace and the generosity, the kindness and the love thats been shown on our streets of minneapolis, st. Paul, and across minnesota over the last several days. Last evening was another example of that. Protests across the city. We saw memorials continue to floyd down one 38th and chicago. We saw beautiful interactions on the state capital where, out of respect, the National Guard troops there told the protesters out of respect they would go back a way to the building and just take care of those vehicles which were out front, which they did, not protesters at that point. Certainly, neighbors and friends and agents
Outofstate groups are involved s. Organizing the protest good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here this morning. We spoke last night approximately 2 30 a. M. And provided an update of a highly dangerous and rapidly evolving with folks bent on destroying property with no minnesotansafety of and certainly no desire to make a statement other than wanton destruction and chaos. I want to thank the minnesotans who abided by the curfew. Thank hour responders who are out there protecting hour cities protecting our cities. A highly evolved and tightly controlled group of folks bent toadapting their tactics make it as difficult as possible to maintain that order. My mission has been clear to the folks in minnesota in conjunction with the mayor of minneapolis and the mayor of st. Paul protection of citizenry and property is hour top priority, and maintaining and restoring civil order on the streets. I think what is really important to recognize is the tactics and approach that we have take
On our streets. It has been a very tough week, but to watch how saturday and sunday played out, a thank you to our Public Servants out there on many different fronts. National guard, state patrol, police department, sheriffs departments, as well as those who are out there making sure we maintained utilities and Everything Else. Also speaking of, watching yesterday, the whole nature of why we do these things is to allow for that peaceful expression. We saw large peaceful protests focusing on the systemic changes that get to the heart of why we are in this situation. And when i say we, minneapolis, st. Paul, the state of minnesota, nationally and as we have seen over the last 24 hours, internationally. A society that does not put equity and inclusion at the center of it is certainly going to eventually come to the places where we are at. This is a moment of inflection, it is a moment of real change, it is a moment that those folks who are out there demanding this are not going to take a
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