- The wife of a fallen police officer told Gov. Walz not to come to the funeral
The widow of a slain police officer wanted Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz nowhere near her husband’s funeral.
Walz was more than willing to comply with her request.
Minnesota resident Shannon Owen received a call from Walz in 2023 after her husband Joshua was killed in the line of duty with the governor offering his condolences.
Owen had some choice words for the governor and told him he would be removed from the funeral for her husband if he tried to attend.
‘You have never been a supporter of the police and I’d just appreciate it if you just don’t come anywhere near my town,’ she said in a partial recording of her phone conversation included in the Alpha News documentary Minnesota v. We the People.
Shannon Owen, the wife a Minnesota police officer killed in the line of duty last year, told Gov. Tim Walz not to attend her husband’s funeral of he would be escorted off site
She also informed Walz, who is now the Democratic vice presidential candidate, that if he tried to come to the funeral she would ‘make sure that I escort your a** out of here’.
‘No, I totally understand and respect your rights,’ Walz replied during the calls just days after Owen’s husband was killed.
‘Our officers are here to support you in any way you need,’ he said before the call was brought to an abrupt end.
Owen said she didn’t say much during the conversations and ‘just let him ramble because that is what politicians do.’
The conversation highlights a major problem for Walz – at least in his home state of Minnesota – among law enforcement.
Asked if he was suitable to be the next-vice president, Owen said: ‘Absolutely not.’
‘I don’t like the way he is with the cops’ situation, the military situation. I just feel he is a puppet right now,’ she said, according to The Telegraph. ‘He is not actually speaking about what he really wants to do.’
A video of Owen on the phone with Gov. Walz reveals she told him: ‘You have never been a supporter of the police and I’d just appreciate it if you just don’t come anywhere near my town’
Deputy Sheriff Josh Owen was killed during a shoot out when responding to a domestic violence call in Spring 2023. He was planning to leave the force shortly before his death due to reforms making his job increasingly dangerous, his wife claims
She accused Gov. Walz of putting on a ‘nice guy’ after joining Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 ticket.
Minnesota has a massive issue with citizens versus the police after it became ground zero for calls to abolish police in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death at the hands of a police officer.
Floyd’s death in Minneapolis in 2020 sparked days-long riots that spawned the Black Lives Matter movement that Walz found himself caught in the crosshairs of as governor.
Civil Rights activists think he didn’t do enough to stop police from responding to violence in Minneapolis and St. Paul in the aftermath of Floyd’s death. But Republicans accused him of going too far to restrict law enforcement from being able to do their job.
Five years later and the views on Walz’s response remain highly divisive.
Minneapolis lost 40 percent of its force in the wake of Floyd’s death and the defund police movement.
Owen says that her husband, a Military veteran, was planning to quit the force ‘right before he died.’
She said he was upset by law enforcement reforms that made his work too dangerous.
Gov. Walz, who is now running for vice president, called Owen to offer his condolences and when told to stay away from the funeral said: ‘No, I totally understand and respect your rights. Our officers are here to support you in any way you need’
Deputy Sheriff Josh Owen was responding to a domestic violence incident when he was killed in the line of duty.
Bodycam footage shows the deputy walking into an apartment where two officers were already in place.
The killer had a gun hidden under his leg.
When Deputy Sheriff Owen tried to arrest the man, ‘that’s when the guy brought out his gun,’ his wife recalled.
One officer was shot in the vest before Owen took out his own gun and started firing back.
‘You can see him reeling. He said: ‘I am shot’. He started to lean over and then just spilled out and died.’
The suspect also died in the attack.
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