How Did Tim Walz Do at Black Lives Mattering?
Not so hot, it turns out: Minnesota's black homicide victimization rate has been 83% worse under Walz than during the preceding decade.
How did Tim Walz do as governor of Minnesota since 2019 at his (at least rhetorically) highest priority: making sure Black Lives Matter?
Eh … not that great.
In 2018, the year before Walz became governor, 10.9 blacks per 100,000 died by homicide. By 2021, in the third year of Walz’s governorship, the black rate of dying by homicide had almost tripled to 29.8.
Since then, it’s come down, but 2023 was still dramatically worse for Black Lives Mattering in terms of not getting shot (typically by another black) than the average for the decade preceding Walz’s coming to power.
During the decade before Walz, the black homicide victimization rate averaged 12.8 per annum versus 23.4 during Walz’s 5 years (2019-2023) covered by the CDC, an increase of 83%.
Whites were killed by homicide 22% more often under Walz than during the previous 10 years.
Nationally, the black homicide victimization rate went up 45% from 2009-2018 to 2019-2023 compared to up 83% in Minnesota.
If you don’t believe me, I encourage you to go ahead and download the cause-of-death data from the CDC’s WONDER database tracking all deaths in the U.S. yourself.
In Minnesota, the black homicide victimization rate went up 83 percent from 2009-2018 to 2019-2023.
Nationally, the black homicide victimization rate went up 45%
2019-2023: 30.2
2009-2018: 20.8
OT: We have a multi-ethnic non-white quintet who robbed a cannabis dispensary in Santa Rosa CA:
Five Sacramento residents were arrested for the robbery of a marijuana dispensary in Santa Rosa, according to the Santa Rosa Police Department.
At 8 p.m. on Thursday, an employee of a marijuana dispensary alerted police to a robbery that occurred at the establishment located in the 1800 block of Empire Industrial Court.
The employee informed Santa Rosa PD that several individuals in four vehicles pulled up to the dispensary and assaulted him, stealing marijuana products. The suspects then fled into the four vehicles. The victim provided police with the descriptions of the cars.
Aurya Pratap Singh, 23
Javier Artemio Ruvalcaba, 23
Jacourtney Deshawn Carter, 23
Chermeine Vedell Carter, 29
Reginald Dale Harris III, 22
The five were all charged with felony robbery and conspiracy. Jacourtney Deshawn Carter and Chermeine Vedell Carter were also charged with resisting arrest. Reginald Dale Harris III was additionally charged with felony evading and resisting arrest.
Three blacks, one Latino and one Sikh.