Gwen Walz, wife of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, revealed she left her windows open to "smell the burning tires" during the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots, calling it a "touchstone" moment—comments that have resurfaced as her husband joins Kamala Harris's 2024 presidential ticket.
In a recently resurfaced interview, Gwen Walz, the wife of Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, revealed that she left her windows open during the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots to "smell the burning tires," describing it as a "touchstone" moment.
The interview clip gained renewed attention after Vice President Kamala Harris announced that Governor Tim Walz would be her running mate for the 2024 presidential election. In the interview, aired on KSTP-TV’s “5 Eyewitness News Nightcast,” Gwen Walz reflected on the unrest that followed George Floyd's death, sharing how she left her windows open "as long" as the city burned during the riots.
“I could smell the burning tires. That was a very real thing, and I kept the windows open as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening,” she said.
Minneapolis was engulfed in violence for three days after Floyd's death, with rioters burning buildings and looting businesses.
As news of Walz being chosen as Harris’s running mate spread, critics, including Republican lawmakers, quickly highlighted Governor Walz’s decision not to immediately deploy the National Guard to quell the violence. Walz had previously argued that an armed presence might escalate tensions, suggesting that protesters needed space to express their outrage.
“I want to just be clear there’s philosophically an argument to be made that an armed presence on the ground in the midst of where we just had a police killing is seen as a catalyst,” Governor Walz explained at the time.
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