How did Tim Walz do Black Lives Mattering?

How did Tim Walz do as governor of Minnesota from 2019 with his top priority (at least rhetorically): making sure that Black Lives Matter?

Eh… not so great.

In 2018, the year before Walz became governor, 10.9 blacks per 100,000 died by homicide. By 2021, Walz's third year in office, the black homicide death rate had nearly tripled to 29.8.

It's gone down since then, but 2023 was still much worse for Black Lives Mattering in terms of not being shot (usually by another black person) than the average in the decade before Walz took office .

In the decade before Walz, the black homicide victimization rate averaged 12.8 per year compared to 23.4 during Walz's 5-year period (2019-2023) covered by the CDC, an 83% increase.

Whites were killed by homicide 22% more often under Walz than during the previous 10 years.

Nationally, the black homicide victimization rate increased 45% from 2009-2018 to 2019-2023 compared to 83% in Minnesota.

If you don't believe me, I encourage you to go ahead and download the cause of death data for the CDC's WONDER database tracking all deaths in the United States.