PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem were given a scorching Christmas present from her personnel — actually.
Noem’s personnel gave her a Pulsefire LRT flamethrower with an engraved plate of the state motto “Below God, the folks rule,” the Sioux Falls Argus Chief reported Tuesday.
A video posted to Twitter on Sunday presentations Noem, decked out in camouflage, the use of the flamethrower to torching a pile of cardboard packing containers on a snowy farm. She shoots a last spray of flames into the packing containers, raises her arm with a flourish and says “Increase, best possible.”
In keeping with Tennessee-based ammunitions corporate MidSouth Shooters, a Pulsefire LRT prices about $650. Noem spokesperson Ian Fury stated no tax bucks went towards the acquisition.
The present comes after a photograph on Twitter appearing Noem protecting a flamethrower with the caption, “Is it too past due so as to add one thing to my Christmas checklist?” went viral in 2020.
Some critics on social media have complained that whilst Noem was once burning the packing containers, media experiences surfaced that 1000’s of American Indians at the Rosebud and Pine Ridge reservations have been trapped with out warmth all through a fierce wintry weather hurricane. Pine Ridge voters needed to burn garments after propane deliveries stopped and there was once no firewood.
No less than one individual, a 12-year-old Rosebud Sioux lady, died, as a result of she was once not able to obtain clinical remedy.
Fury famous that the state Division of Public Protection cleared roads on each reservations, coordinated shipping for dozens of dialysis sufferers to Speedy Town, helped stranded drivers and delivered meals, firewood and propane to communities. Noem additionally declared a state of emergency and activated the Nationwide Guard to ship firewood to the Rosebud and Oglala Sioux tribes.