A former federal prosecutor criticized Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), asserting that Walz ‘has to answer’ for commuting the sentence of a man convicted of murdering an 11-year-old girl.
During an interview on Fox Business, Joe Teirab, the Republican candidate for Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District, criticized Gov. Tim Walz as an ‘utter failure,’ accusing the governor of ‘sitting on his hands for multiple days’ during the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots.
Teirab also stated that Gov. Walz must ‘answer’ for commuting the sentence of Myon Burrell, who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the 2002 murder of 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards.
“I think Tim Walz has to answer for this: there’s a man in Minnesota, a criminal named Myon Burrell, and some people might know his story because Myon Burrell’s a Bloods criminal street gang member. I charged the Bloods in a more recent case,” Teirab explained.
“Myon Burrell shot and killed an 11-year-old girl who was doing her homework on her kitchen table in Minneapolis,” Teirab continued.
“He was convicted and he did almost 20 years in prison. And, after — he maintained his innocence, which he definitely wasn’t. Guess who commuted his sentence? Tim Walz commuted his sentence.”
“And, not long after being off of probation for three months, this criminal, Myon Burrell, got picked up for having drugs and a gun in his car,” Teirab continued. “And guess who bailed him out? Because he was set free. Guess who bailed him out? The Minnesota Freedom Fund. The same fund that Kamala Harris was soliciting funds for during the riots.”
According to the Daily Mail, Burrell was 16 years old when he was convicted and sentenced.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who was serving as the Hennepin County district attorney at the time, led the case against Burrell.
In December 2020, Gov. Walz, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea voted to commute Burrell’s sentence, according to the Minnesota Reformer.
According to the outlet, after Burrell’s sentence was commuted, he was released from prison and is now serving the remainder of his sentence under supervised release.
In September 2023, Burrell was charged with ‘gun and drug felonies’ after law enforcement officers found a gun and drugs in his car during a traffic stop, according to the Associated Press.
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