John Nagel is a retired lieutenant in the Minnesota State Police, and he has some harsh things to say about Governor and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz. Specifically, Lieutenant Nagel claims that Walz "truly doesn't like the police."

A retired police lieutenant in Minnesota is pushing back against the narrative that Gov. Tim Walz is a "moderate" and tells Fox News Digital that the governor "intentionally" let Minneapolis burn during the 2020 riots because he "truly doesn’t like police."

"He is not a moderate, he has never been a moderate and here in Minnesota he has been anti-police, he has raised taxes, he is nowhere near being a moderate," retired Minnesota State Patrol Lt. John Nagel told Fox News Digital.

"He’s anti-police, defund the police, when you have police families, and we have an officer killed in the line of duty, when that family looks at the governor and says we don't want you at the funeral. That should tell you a great deal of how law enforcement in general feels about Walz."

As for the governor being disinvited to police funerals, there is corroboration for that:

Last year, the widow of Pope County Sheriff’s Deputy Josh Owen, who was killed in the line of duty responding to a domestic violence call, told Walz he was not invited to her late husband’s funeral because "he does not support law enforcement," Alpha News reported.

That has to be one of the ultimate signs of contempt for an elected official from the family of a fallen officer, to be told he's not welcome at the officer's funeral. 

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The summer of 2020 was a disaster for cities across the land. Billions in property damage, arson, rioting, looting, businesses destroyed, and even murders. Minneapolis was ground zero for this debacle, and Tim Walz bears a lot of the blame for allowing things to get so far out of hand. Indeed, Walz's wife celebrated the rioters, even as the governor ordered police to shoot paintballs at people standing on their own front porches.

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Minnesota is suffering under a sort of reverse dynamic duo regarding crime and civil unrest between Governor Walz and the state's Attorney General, Keith Ellison, who never saw the thug he wouldn't turn back out on the street. 

We must listen to the people of Minnesota, who have been suffering under these two and the rest of Minnesota's "progressives" in St. Paul. Granted none of us can read minds; we cannot know, precisely, the reasons that Tim Walz was so apathetic while Minneapolis burned. Was it incompetence, neglect, or malice? What we have as evidence is that Minneapolis did burn, that Governor Walz's responses were, at best, tepid, and that there is an awfully lot of smoke for there not to be a fire in there somewhere.

And this is the man who is campaigning for the second-most-powerful job on the planet. A "progressive" governor who let rioters run amok, let one of his state's major cities burn, who has earned the contempt and slight regard of the state's law enforcement community. That's who Tim Walz is. When the people of Minnesota tell us this, it's in our interest to hear them out.