Hunting down Democrats in Middle America?
Things ARE going off the hook sidways in America…..
A person pretending to be a police officer assassinated a Democratic state legislator in Minnesota and killed the lawmaker’s husband in “an act of targeted political violence,” Gov. Tim Walz said Saturday. The assailant also shot and injured another Democratic lawmaker and his wife, officials said.
State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, died in the attack at their home in the Minneapolis suburbs. State Senator John A. Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were shot multiple times at their house in a nearby suburb, but remained alive as of Saturday morning.
The authorities were searching for the assailant, who shot at officers as they arrived at one of the lawmakers’ homes. Chief Mark Bruley of the Brooklyn Park, Minn., police said the gunman’s vehicle contained a manifesto and a target list with names of individuals, including the two lawmakers who were shot.
“We must all, Minnesota and across the country, stand against all forms of political violence,” Mr. Walz said.
F.B.I. officials said they had joined the investigation….
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Federal law enforcement officials are helping the local authorities collect evidence and track down the shooter. There is a palpable sense of urgency among the federal agents as they scramble to help neutralize the gunman, who has been described as heavily armed and armored — and apparently wearing the same gear as those pursuing him…
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Indivisible Twin Cities, one of the groups organizing a demonstration Saturday afternoon to protest Trump administration policies, said the event would still go on. “We think it’s important to gather peacefully,” the group said in a statement. “In the face of this horror, we will mourn and mark our determination for a peaceful, just, democratic future.”
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