“I don’t know how we’re going to get back to a place of normalcy anytime soon,” said retired sheriff of Hennepin County sheriff Richard W. Stanek of Minnesota this week in an interview with WWL’s Newell Normand.
Stanek, a Republican, served as the sheriff of Hennepin County, where Minneapolis is located, from 2007 through 2019 and in that time worked with Normand, who is also a Republican and served as sheriff of Jefferson County, La. He still lives in Minneapolis, which has been nearly constantly in the headlines over recent weeks.
First there were fraud allegations, then Democratic Gov. Tim Walz announced he would resign amid those allegations. Just days after that announcement, Renee Good was shot and killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross…