“The Text”: From General Jensen’s July 9 2020 Senate testimony, The State’s Role in Responding to Riots:

 

He woke Thurs May 28 6:35a to The Text from Commissioner Harrington:

‘hey we’re gonna need to accelerate the use of the Guard based on last night’s events’ and I agreed’ 

The General testified he and Harrington were now ‘at the planning stage, the “beginning” of the notification stage‘ absent written or verbal go ahead from Governor Walz: ‘That comes a bit later in the morning through Harrington and we begin the mobilization of the Guard then’

‘To my knowledge We don’t have a request from an incident Commander Thursday morning (so) what my idea was is that we’re accelerating Saturday’s plan… 200 MPs

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