At the height of COVID insanity and the George Floyd riots in 2020, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz deployed the National Guard to enforce a curfew against Minneapolis residents. Video footage from May 2020 showing police officers and National Guard forces shooting paintballs at residents standing on their porch is sweeping social media. “Go on. Go inside,” police shouted at residents. “Get in your house now. Let’s go,” they continued. “Light them up,” one yelled. Police officers proceeded to shoot paintballs at the residents watching from their porch. WATCH: Here is a clean downloadable video of Tim Walz enforcing his 2020 Covid lockdowns by having police shoot civilians with paintball guns… pic.twitter.com/5aOmCPYi5P — EducatëdHillbilly (@RobProvince) August 13, 2024 “Share widely: National guard and MPD sweeping our residential street. Shooting paint canisters at us on our own front porch. Yelling ‘light em up,'” Tanya Kerssen wrote in May 2020. “Whittier neighborhood, Minneapolis, Minnesota,” she added. Whittier neighborhood, Minneapolis, Minnesota — Tanya Kerssen (@tkerssen) May 31, 2020 Independent reported at the time: Police officers and National Guard forces in Minneapolis shot paintballs at residents standing outside on their porch, as a curfew was enforced throughout the city. A video posted on Twitter on Saturday night appears to show the Minnesota National Guard and state police ordering the residents of one street to go inside, before they turn their weapons on a group of residents. The footage captures people rushing inside the property after shots are fired and shows where one member of the public has been hit by a paintball. Armed officers can be heard shouting “light ‘em up” before the shots start. At around the time of the shooting on Saturday, an 8pm curfew was implemented in Minneapolis, the city where protests started after the death of George Floyd on 25 May. Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, said that the National Guard will be fully mobilised. The number on duty in the city will rise from more than 4,000 to almost 11,000.

After Elon Musk’s historic X Space conversation with Donald Trump, he extended an invite to Kamala Harris for a conversation with her. “Happy to host Kamala on an ? Spaces too,” Musk said. Happy to host Kamala on an ? Spaces too — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024 “Combined views of the conversation with @realDonaldTrump and subsequent discussion by other accounts now ~1 billion,” Musk said. Combined views of the conversation with @realDonaldTrump and subsequent discussion by other accounts now ~1 billion https://t.co/s8x8QmdmnY — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024 Newsweek reports: Elon Musk has extended an invitation to Vice President Kamala Harris to appear in an interview with him after his conversation on X with Donald Trump. Musk, who owns X, formerly known as Twitter, engaged in an almost two-hour interview with the former president on his app’s Spaces feature. The audio-only interview covered a wide range of topics, with Trump even granting Harris a rare compliment by comparing her to his wife Melania Trump and labeling her a “beautiful woman.” Following the interview, Musk returned to X and offered Harris, who is the presumptive Democratic nominee for November’s presidential election, the same opportunity to appear on Spaces. “Happy to host Kamala on an ? Spaces too,” Musk wrote on Monday. After the Harris campaign’s meltdown following the interview, it’s hard to imagine Harris accepting Musk’s offer. “Trump’s entire campaign is in service of people like Elon Musk and himself — self-obsessed rich guys who will sell out the middle class and who cannot run a livestream in the year 2024,” the campaign said in a statement. “Understandable that Kamala’s campaign would find it confusing to listen to a presidential candidate speak off the teleprompter for more than 0 seconds,” Trump War Room commented. Understandable that Kamala's campaign would find it confusing to listen to a presidential candidate speak off the teleprompter for more than 0 seconds. https://t.co/FoU2nkZ3uz — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 13, 2024 “I wouldn’t hold your breath. Over three weeks. Not a single interview,” Collin Rugg commented. I wouldn’t hold your breath. Over three weeks. Not a single interview. pic.twitter.com/eEULx8ETZU — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August 13, 2024 * Image from Collin Rugg X Post * From The Hollywood Reporter: Before the interview, Musk took some heat from the European Union. The EU’s commissioner for internal market, Frenchman Thierry Breton, had posted an open letter to the X founder and tech mogul on Monday asking that he censor his interview with Trump to avoid “the amplification of harmful content.” Breton said Musk, who bought the platform in 2022, has a legal obligation to comply with the Digital Services Act (DSA) and fight the spread of misinformation. Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X (formerly Twitter), was copied. “As the relevant content is accessible to EU users and being amplified also in our jurisdiction, we cannot exclude potential spillovers in the EU,” Breton continued in his letter. Any “negative effect of illegal content” could lead the EU to take further action against X and Musk, using “our full toolbox, including by adopting interim measures, should it be warranted to protect EU citizens from harm.” Musk replied to Breton’s letter with a meme that said: “Take a big step back and literally, f*** your own face!” Trump returned to the app after having his account suspended following the Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021, “due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” the company said at the time. When Musk took over, though, he reinstated Trump’s account.

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I keep getting Democrat fundraising emails for some reason, and the one I received yesterday before Donald Trump and Elon Musk spoke on X was like an excerpt from 1984. EGADS! The team with almost all of the so-called legacy media and most social media is infuriated. Elon Musk endorsed Trump and conversed with him […] The post The Harris-Walz Unhinged Fundraising Email from 1984 appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.