Police surrendered the Third Precinct around 10 p.m. Neighbors guarded their streets with baseball bats and garden hoses. post office and a multi-story affordable housing project that was still under construction. Lake Street, including several restaurants, an AutoZone, Minnehaha Lake Wine & Spirits, a U.S. That night, fires and heavy looting and vandalism claimed at least 20 buildings on E. Only a fraction of the forecasted crowds showed up, but they were more than enough to overwhelm law enforcement defenses. "They are prepared to be armed should MPD and the Governor request it."
The Minnesota National Guard had 200 military police officers standing by to assist, he wrote. of Defense David Nordquist and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley.
Minneapolis police were expecting as many as 75,000 protesters to converge on the city that weekend in response to George Floyd's murder three days prior, Lengyel wrote in an email to Deputy Sec. Lengyel warned two of the Pentagon's highest-ranking officials that the situation in Minneapolis was about to get a lot worse. "There's still every reason to be concerned," Walz said.On the morning of May 28, 2020, U.S. As of Friday, 35 Minnesota counties had met the federal threshold to return to indoor masking. As cases of the highly contagious delta variant rise across the nation, the CDC has recommended that people in regions with high infection rates once again wear masks indoors, even if they're vaccinated. Meanwhile, the governor said Monday that legislators who fought to end his emergency powers should be thinking about measures that might be needed to prevent the spread happening now. He wants the Legislature to gather as an emergency is being declared and plans to keep working on the bill ahead of the next regular session in January. If Walz called another peacetime emergency now, the Legislature would not reconvene until after the fact, when the governor called lawmakers into session, Pelowski said. Gene Pelowski, DFL-Winona, is working on a bill aimed at better addressing a key question: "How do we face an emergency, such as a pandemic, and balance the powers of the executive with the powers of the legislative branch?" It isn't just Republicans saying that peacetime emergency rules must change. GOP lawmakers spent nearly a year pushing the governor to end the state's emergency status. At the end of June he announced he was fully ending the peacetime emergency that had been in place since March 2020.ĭuring the peacetime emergency, Walz could use executive powers to rapidly respond to the pandemic - leaving legislators out of much of the decisionmaking. Walz lifted regulations for masks in indoor public spaces on May 13, following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's lead. "These are decisions that should be made at the local level with the involvement of students and parents, and with no undue influence or pressure from the Minnesota Department of Education to implement these recommendations," top Republicans on the House's education committees said in a statement.
But for some GOP legislators, even Wednesday's school guidance raised concerns. They cannot mandate the measures - that decision falls to local school districts. State officials on Wednesday released new recommendations for schools, including masking for teachers and students. "The governor will continue to monitor the situation, encourage Minnesotans to get vaccinated, and work with the Legislature and state agencies to keep Minnesotans safe," Walz's spokeswoman Claire Lancaster said in a statement. The DFL governor would need to once again declare a peacetime emergency to impose a mask rule or other mandates - a move that would draw sharp condemnation from some lawmakers and reactivate the monthly legislative special sessions that just ended. Tim Walz so far says he isn't planning to return Minnesota to a state of emergency as COVID-19 cases rise and some cities and states around the country reinstate mask requirements.
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