The Minnesota governor unexpectedly announced this month that he wouldn’t run for re-election.
Walz had said this month that he would not seek re-election as governor — sending shock waves through state and national politics — but he did not go so far as to say he would not consider another elected position down the line.
In explaining his decision Wednesday, Walz talked about the scenes unfolding in Minneapolis between residents and federal officers. He said he found that there are “heroes on the streets that we don’t know their names.”
“They’re never going to run for office, and those grass-tops leaders brought this administration to their knees this week to do something about it. So there’s other ways to serve, and I’ll find them,” he said.
You keep saying that, but you haven’t said what he could do
Unfortunately US laws give federal law enforcement supremacy, and there is a reason for that
After the Civil War and during reintegration a lot of parts of the country did not want black people in their communities. A lot of towns supported lynchings. Local law enforcement did nothing when people of color were murdered. Hence laws were made to allow federal law enforcement to overrule local law enforcement, allowing feds to operate in a community even when the community is against it
The current situation is an unfortunare result of that history