UNEXPECTEDLY: Member of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s administration allegedly caused $20K in damage while vandalizing Teslas: report.
An employee of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was reportedly busted for allegedly causing approximately $20,000 in damage while vandalizing Teslas — just weeks after his failed vice presidential candidate boss mocked the electric car company’s falling stock.
Dylan Bryan Adams, 33, a fiscal policy analyst for the state run by the failed vice presidential candidate, was arrested after he was caught on vehicle surveillance dragging his keys across several Teslas, causing approximately $20,000 worth of damage as he stripped the paint off the electric cars, according to a Minnesota-based crime watch account.
Formal charges are reportedly pending.
Flashback: Did Tim Walz ‘Let Minneapolis Burn?’
There is one point on which everyone I spoke to seemed to agree: The destruction was orchestrated largely by agitators, not local protesters. Some of them were militant anarchists, and some were far-right groups like the Proud Boys, the Boogaloo Bois, and the “Aryan Cowboys.”
“People there with a First Amendment right to protest were being used as cover, whether wittingly or unwittingly, for the destruction,” said one officer, who asked to remain anonymous.
[Minneapolis police lieutenant Kim Voss], who went undercover decades ago to investigate Antifa, told me that “this is what trained activists do. They found a crowd that was really ripe for it. A lot of the looters were local people—ones that got caught up in it. But they were puppets. The activists were the puppeteers.”
More than anyone, though, Voss blames Walz. She recalled once hearing Walz use the line, “We don’t abandon our folks,” referring to Democrats who were calling for Biden to exit the presidential race.
“I thought, You’re so full of shit,” she said. “You did. You left us all behind.”
Related: Tim Walz’s Wife Gwen Kept Windows Open During BLM Riots to ‘Smell the Burning Tires.’ “I kept the windows open as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was — what was happening.”