Posted on 06/14/2025 9:24:14 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
A manifesto identifying numerous lawmakers and public officials as potential targets was found in the vehicle of the suspect who shot and killed Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, and wounded State Senator John Hoffman, Reuters quoted Brooklyn Park, Minnesota Police Chief as saying.
According to local media reports, the shootings occurred in the early hours of Saturday at the lawmakers' homes in the Minneapolis suburbs of Brooklyn Park and Champlin.
Governor Tim Walz called the shootings a "politically motivated assassination" and confirmed that Representative Hortman and her husband were killed, while Senator Hoffman was wounded.
"An unspeakable tragedy has unfolded in Minnesota - my good friend and colleague, Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, were shot and killed early this morning in what appears to be a politically motivated assassination," he told reporters.
"Our state lost a great leader," he added.
"We must all, in Minnesota and across the country, stand against all forms of political violence," Walz said during a press conference, adding that those responsible "will be held accountable".
Walz said that in a second attack, Senator John Hoffman and his wife, of Champlin, were shot multiple times, underwent surgery and that he was "cautiously optimistic" that they would survive "this assassination attempt".
US Senator Amy Klobuchar described the attack as a "stunning act of violence", saying in a post on X that her prayers were with the Hortman and Hoffman families. "Both legislators are close friends and devoted to their families and public service," she wrote.
Authorities urged residents of Brooklyn Park and Champlin to stay indoors as law enforcement continued searching for the suspect, who escaped after an exchange of gunfire with police. Investigators are still working to determine the motive and have not disclosed the suspect's identity.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
You will read it in ten years.
Translated:
"democrat"
Manifesto??
I guess it was a Trans shooter.
I wonder how the targeted politicians in the manifesto voted on this:
The victims broke ranks with the D’s and voted for it. A few others did too.
Yet he and his democrat colleagues foster that kind of behavior. Total hypocrite.
Remember the law of Ann Coulter: If they don’t announce his race right away, he’s not white.🤣
This is WRONG:
“The suspect fired at the officers; gunfire was exchanged and the suspect was able to escape and flee on foot, authorities said.”
The sure mark of government handlers!
*** “Our state lost a great leader,” he added. ***
Let’s be clear, there are very few politicians who are leaders.
I believe the media are reporting the shooter is white.
Yup. Sad but true and demonstrated repeatedly as so.
Authorities don’t know the motives.
I see a long investigation ahead that will probably find the motives can’t be determined.
Dems are against violence when it is against the privileged class.
the murders were for voting AGAINST THE DEEP STATE,
and thus the manifesto and hit-man were paid for by DNC.
but there is AGAIN no known “motive” to those
in the DEEP STATE, MSM, and DNC
who paid for and organized this ... and its cover-up.
Police have the perp’s manifesto and targe list. They know where he’s coming from politically.
When the liberal trans shot up the Christian school killing children, the ‘manifesto’ was not released - and then only partially - months later.
If the press thought the killer was a liberal they’d be talking about gun control... not ‘saving our democracy’...
Wait a minute! Aren’t the names, “Hortman,” and “Hoffman,” Jewish, or am I wrong? If I am correct then why are they not calling it “religious terrorism, ( Muslim perp, )” and not politically motivated?
They announced it - he’s white.
I believe the media are reporting the shooter is white.
However, I believe Zimmerman was first reported as “white”.
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