Public sentiment is overwhelmingly negative regarding the shooting of Minnesota lawmakers, characterized by shock, fear, and anger. The dialogue highlights concerns over rising political violence, accountability for political rhetoric, and the implications for democracy and safety. There is a strong belief that the incident reflects broader societal issues of political extremism and a deep yearning for unity against violence, condemning acts of aggression regardless of political affiliation.

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Domestic Terrorist, dressed as police officer, assassinated Democrat Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband. As well as attempted to assassinate Democrat Sen. John Hoffman and his wife. 

Please, let’s not downplay any of this. So far I’ve seen Tim Walz call it an assassination, good for him.

keytotheboard

NY Times front page headline gets it right:

Minnesota lawmaker assassinated in act of "targeted political violence"

And there's a manifesto:

"Chief Mark Bruley of the Brooklyn Park Police said the gunman’s vehicle contained a “manifesto” and a target list with names of individuals, including the two lawmakers who were shot."

ReaderBeeRottweiler

NoctisVex

They were assassinated. Use the correct words.

Temporary_Ability996

Two Democratic Lawmakers* party affiliation is a crucial aspect of this politically motivated assassination and act of domestic terrorism.

kllys

Yes let’s call it for what it is. It was an assassination. I’m sick of these news articles downplaying it.

memphisjones

Remember when someone tried to do this to Nancy Pelosi with a hammer, and wound up attacking her husband instead, Junior’s response was to laugh about it.

sonofabutch

This is what happened in Argentina. This is what happened in Brazil.

Protest today, and make preparations to defend yourselves tomorrow.

Sad_Dirt_841

The fucking military parade is going to look even worse. Holding an ego stroking “show of force” the day two lawmakers were assassinated is fucking absurd

tresben

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They had an SUV car equipped with the proper emergency lighting and it looked exactly like a police vehicle…. Man wtf is going on.

threestaruser

Waste_Molasses_936

[https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-scales-back-staffing-tracking-domestic-terrorism-probes-sources-say-2025-03-21/](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-scales-back-staffing-tracking-domestic-terrorism-probes-sources-say-2025-03-21/)

Kash needs to be removed from his job.

Not a peep from Trump's fat ass. Still rambling about his stupid birthday party parade though

Edit: Trump finally took a break from his birthday party to copy/paste the statement on Truth Social.

longtermattention

[Conservative sub blaming CNN, MSNBC and ABC for the radicalization of a right wing nut who likely never watched those stations. ](https://ibb.co/tp04LXfV) Absolutely insane cognitive dissonance.

ArchdruidHalsin

Assassinated, not shot. Call it what it is.

CombustiblSquid

When Republicans tell you that [they're domestic terrorists](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cpac-banner-domestic-terrorists/), believe them.

SodaCanBob

RowAwayJim71

ande4100

Were assassinated by a domestic terrorist***

linoleum79

Please change the title to them being assassinated. We can't minimize this in any way

Dr_DoesNothing

You can see the right wingers kick the disinfo into overdrive as the reality starts to set in that this guy was a prototypical Conservative Christian Nationalist who had a kill list of left politicians and doctors who provided abortions.

arsene14

I will never forgive trump voters. Never.

txtoolfan

The narrative of "the violent radical leftist Democrats" will not budge an inch.  This assassination will be a complete non-starter in the minds of anyone one the right. I quarantee it. 

Valahiru

Both CNN and ABC are now reporting that the suspect's list included state and federal Democratic politicians, along with abortion providers and abortion rights activists... and the right is still trying to spin this as a democrat....

YeetedApple

"Two Democratic elected officials in Minnesota have been victims of a targeted assassination attempt by a MAGA terrorist"\*

\*Likely one of the pardoned January 6th terrorists

JWTS6

Turns out he's a crazy Christian Nationalist

LeeShakerMoneyMaker

one was assassinated by domestic terrorist(s)

Liiiiiiiidooooooooo

The dude had a manifesto of 70 names that were exclusively Democratic politicians(including Tim Walz), as well as abortion providers and abortion activists. Anyone trying to claim he’s liberal or a leftist or anything like that is either not engaging in good faith or is entirely brainwashed by right wing propaganda.

AnAwkwardJedi

What are the odds it’s a pardoned Jan 6th-er.

Pave_Low

L0uZilla

For those of you going to a No Kings protest today: Don't let this sway you the other way. 

To quote Tim Walz: "Fascists thrive on fear."

Be there. Be peaceful. Be vigilant.

svrtngr

I hadn't read this bit before. Assuming that it's not an actual cop it should be easier to find the assassin. 

&gt;The suspect was dressed like a uniformed officer and operating a vehicle that “looked exactly like an SUV squad car. It was equipped with lights, emergency lights and looked exactly like a police vehicle,”

ToNoMoCo

It's absolutely fascinating how few news outlets are calling this an assassination.

mowotlarx

This case is crazy I just saw the press conference. So, after police found the first couple shot (politician and their spouse), an officer on the scene wanted to send other officers to a politician that lived nearby. As the officers arrived at the second location, a “police officer” was leaving the house. When the officers confronted the “officer” leaving the house, the suspect then immediately began firing at them and retreated back into the house. At some point, the suspect escaped the house through the back of the house, and is currently still at large. The police have formed a perimeter and are searching for the suspect.

The suspect was dressed in a complete uniform of a law enforcement officer, with a black tactical vest, taser, weapon (obviously), etc. The suspect also had a SUV that looked identical to a police vehicle, including having lights. A “manifest” was found in the vehicle, with names of other politicians.

In California ICE and other individuals claiming to be law enforcement officers, do not wear any identifying uniforms or badges, are often masked, and do not present badges before handcuffing and taking people away. A major concern in California, is someone perpetrating being an officer and just simply kidnaps someone, with their face covered, no identifying clothing or badges, pretending to be a LEO.

ASebastian2020

AbjectList8

That “We are all domestic terrorists” banner at CPAC was a threat, not a joke.

Manos_Of_Fate

It speaks volumes that conservatives are desperately posting non-credible sources to “prove” it was a democrat, while leftists are not worried or obsessed about names until a major credible news source breaks the story.

Sufficient_Long_3905

Speaker Johnson just days ago called for the governor of California to be violently attacked.

TimmyB52

"The suspect was dressed like a uniformed officer and operating a vehicle that “looked exactly like an SUV squad car. It was equipped with lights, emergency lights and looked exactly like a police vehicle,” Bruley said."

Uh huh. "Looked" exactly like or...? This looks really bad and if they don't catch this person its going to look even worse.

Commentator-X

The amount of conservatives brigading is hilarious 

MikeyMud

A 22-year-old former landscaper and grocery store worker with minimal national security experience is leading the DHS office charged with preventing domestic terrorism and targeted violence. He did help out Trump's campaign though. Democrats should maybe bring that up?

loglighterequipment

For the conservatives astroturfing this thread: I understand this is a very, very difficult concept for your tiny brains to understand, but not every appointment to every board and advisory committee is done for nakedly partisan reasons. I understand your god king only hires people who buy completely into the maga koolaid, but in the real world, sometimes people get appointed for things for non-political reasons. Tim Walz appointing this guy to some committee does not mean he's a leftist. That he's targeting democrats should give you a clue as to his political leanings. Hope this helps.

SterlingMallory

Can we stop posting that name going around. I don’t want to repost it myself cos I don’t want to be wrong. The original source is a right wing grifter and not legitimate. Neither the police or the Minnesota state government have released a name

Let’s not ruin a guys life cos some POS grifter on twitter said he did it

throwawayanon1252

If it really is the guy whose name is floating around right now, surely people can do a tiny bit of critical thinking and realize that governors approve hundreds and hundreds of positions? And that a person can be radicalized in the 6 years since that happened?

GhostOfLight

Yeah trolls, the guy who runs an armed security company and had a list of democratic politicians he wanted to kill after killing a democratic politician and shooting another democratic politician and is a Christian nationalist is surely *checks notes* anti-trump

Starbucks__Lovers

DjQuamme

Kristi noem on thursday: "we must use deadly force to liberate states from politicians we dont agree with and their burdensome leadership"

https://youtu.be/-rp_IcNIki8?feature=shared

VeNeM

AcuddlyPredator

Will MAGA laugh about this like they did when Paul Pelosi was attacked at his home?

eddie2911

Two Dems assassinated.... Maga immediately : how many lies can we spread to blame this on the left?

decjr06

Conservatives spamming "he had No kings rally fliers in his car" as if they are too stupid to realize they found their fellow terrorists next target 

dothingsunevercould

Seems a lot of people here have the impression that anyone appointed to anything, even a business advisory board, by a president/governor/mayor must be someone vetted for ideological purity.

That’s the exception. The rule has been that those sorts of boards are meant to be nonpartisan and states/feds do a pretty good job at it.

The biggest exception is the current presidential administration.

Armadigionna

Fun fact: According to conservative astroturf logic, President Donald J. Trump has now become a Democrat based on the fact that he appointed Jane Castor, the Democratic Mayor of Tampa, FL, to the FEMA Review Council, a board that he himself created at the beginning of his current term!

platinumarks

This Vance guy is an absolute lunatic. Christian Nationalist alright. 
https://x.com/TropicalVertic1/status/1933959644373819818?t=_QsbG9mJBYKH8ZlGMgYjuQ&amp;s=19

They just stated on a live new report that his best friend and roomate David Carlson said that he was an avid Trump supporter and voted for Trump. Let me see if I can find the video clip

Edit - found the clip

https://youtu.be/gaiQipc64_M?si=yx2IG0u9USHnNRfQ

rhysdg

Almost like masked police officers everywhere and no fucking oversight was a bad idea.

Guthix_Wraith

Anyone wanna bet the conservatives are going to laugh about this or cheer it on? How long before TACO Don mocks the deceased and encourages more of it?

JoplinSC742

MAGAts in this thread trying desperately to paint the terrorist white nationalist scum bag is a democrat.  Nobody is buying that nonsense except other MAGAts.

Rosencrantz_IsDead

&gt;The suspect police encountered at the home of Hortman, the lawmaker who was killed, was wearing a vest, taser, and badge, impersonating a police officer, according to Chief Mark Bruley of the Brooklyn Park Police. “No question, if they were in this room, you would assume they were a police officer.”

&gt;There was also what appeared to be a police vehicle in the driveway of the lawmaker’s home when the actual police arrived, officials said. “This was somebody that clearly had been impersonating a police officer,” Chief Mark Bruley said.

Not to be snarky but are we sure this wasn't actually a police officer? 

[https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/14/us/minnesota-shootings](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/14/us/minnesota-shootings)

suddenly-scrooge

Who wants to place bets that Trump will pardon the murderer?

damik

It's an assassination. Call it what it is.

Radiant_Indignation

Minnesota Dems have a 1 seat majority in the State Senate and the House is evenly split. This is a coup.

putinforpres

Punkinpry427

This was a terrorist assassinating U.S. politicians and has no place in a democracy. Except we no longer have a democracy, it is a dictatorship as was designed by Project2025. What do people not understand about Project2025?  It is a blueprint for how the extreme evangelical christian fundamentalist/nationalist movement planned on capturing the government and it is being followed.  Yet, absolute fucking morons, still voted them in.

independent_observe

How does he get a police squad car and uniform

NeedsMoreMinerals

Funny how they says their extreme left, when he was evangelical, private contractor for the military, and tried to kill left wing politicians like Ilhan Omar and Waltz.

Arlennx

Brooklyn Park, MN today...

News: "We still don't know his affiliation, but we found a list of Democratic lawmakers as potential targets."

MAGA: "The shooter is a Democrat. He worked with Walz!"

Butler, PA months ago...

News: "The shooter is a confirmed member of the Republican Party."

MAGA: "Doubt it! He was probably a Democratic plant put there to make us look bad! We Republicans can't be violent! That's not like us!"

Brief_Obligation4128

I can't wait for the disingenuous right wing narrative to evolve as we learn more about this lunatic. It is going to go from 'he worked for Walz,' to 'why didn't Walz vet this guy before he got on that advisory board?'

travio

He has a documented history of involvement with dominionist charismatic theology aligned with the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). He was ordained in 1993, trained at Christ for the Nations Institute, and led a now-defunct ministry called Revoformation Ministries, where he developed a doctrine called Original Ability — a claimed “new paradigm” for understanding God’s design for humanity. (archived site)

In a 2023 sermon delivered in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Boelter stated:

“God is going to raise up apostles and prophets in America to correct His church.”
He condemned churches that didn’t oppose abortion or operate in “spiritual gifts” and described LGBTQ people as spiritually deceived. This rhetoric is consistent with NAR theology, which teaches that modern-day apostles and prophets are being raised to reform the church and reclaim cultural institutions for the Kingdom of God.

Boelter’s social media before takedown included endorsements of Reinhard Bonnke, Smith Wigglesworth, and Alliance Defending Freedom — connecting him to charismatic revivalism and Christian nationalist legal strategies. His ideology reflects core NAR principles: dominion over society, prophetic authority, and spiritual warfare against perceived moral decline.

This was not fringe theology. It was a radicalized expression of beliefs that have circulated for decades in charismatic and Christian nationalist spaces. Boelter may have acted alone, but he did not think alone.

Serious_Buffalo3243

Maga clowns are already spreading misinformation that the suspect is a democrat who killed them because they had rejected healthcare for illegal migrants earlier. These despicable husks of human beings deserve to rot in the darkest pit of hell. I cannot even begin to describe how much it fucking pisses me off that they are already working on blaming the dems instead of condemning the attack. It's only a matter of time before high-profile republicans take this up.

PuddingWise3116

The assassin was a Republican...

Trumpsters are trying to say the MAGA Chud was a Democrat.

[https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/minnesota-state-lawmakers-shot-search-underway-suspect-local-media-reports-say-2025-06-14/](https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/minnesota-state-lawmakers-shot-search-underway-suspect-local-media-reports-say-2025-06-14/)

Exciting_Coconut_937

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/sources-vance-boelters-wife-detained-for-questioning-after-traffic-stop-near-onamia/

NEW: The shooter’s wife and “three other relatives” (I’m assuming his 3 daughters, but it’s not stated yet) were pulled over in a traffic stop in a northern Minnesota county (a few counties away from Canadian border). The shooter’s wife was detained and has been questioned. Law enforcement recovered firearm, ammunition, cash, and passports. 

My speculation: Looks like they were on the way to Canada…..Doubt he was with them, but maybe going to meet up with them? Unclear. 

Law enforcement really threw a wrench in his plans because they interrupted him after the second shooting because they decided to check on the second elected official after the first shooting (good police work). He would have continued killing Democrats, but he got interrupted and had to change his plans. This also may have ruined his ability to meet up with his family as they were headed to Canada.

politicalpug007

I'm not from Minnesota but this is what a Republican coup looks like. MAGA isn't above attempting to steal elections, take foreign bribes and now they've graduated to political assassinations.

Hey - women, racial/religious minorities, LGBTQ and the working class in particular - do you like the freedoms and rights you currently have? Those rights were fought for and Republican/Conservatives are not being discreet when it comes to taking them away. It's time to take the fucking gloves off and forget about reaching across the isle. Americans fought against the Nazis, the Confederates and now it's time for all TRUE patriots to fight back against the MAGA cult. We aren't getting an endless amount of warnings or second chances before it's too late.

JohnnySack45

If this is not condemned from the president and every member of his administration this is a very clear message sent that not only will this be tolerated, it will be encouraged. And then this may very well be the opening shot that turns this cold civil war hot.

AceofKnaves44

This is the America that the GOP wants.

Most of the GOP politicians themselves will likely issue superficial empty platitudes of condemnation, but the intent of their rhetoric in painting democrats as "the enemy", the unrelenting stochastic terrorism, has clearly and unambiguously been directed at this outcome.

gdshaffe

It's scary that it was a list of democrat law makers and that they basically targeted their entire families.

LuinAelin

What's the chance that when Trump inevitably discusses this in some fashion (be it an official news conference, or just as a passing blabber while talking about something else) that he doesn't spin it as "the evil democrats brought this upon themselves", or do basically anything *except* say "This is bad, this is unacceptable, offenders will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law", which would be the right thing to actually say.

PrivatePilot9

I want to bring to the attention of everyone that in authoritarian governments throughout history both recent and far, they have not moved with this swiftness to assassinate and detain lawmakers… Hitler did tho…

Puzzled-Shop-6950

Well, this was not a good morning.

At some point we're going to have to address that the right wing is at this point essentially just a group of criminals bent against the nation.

TemetN

Conservatives so desperate to convince everyone he’s a liberal cause they know this is the end of their heydays promoting their fascist bs

TheDailyHeptapod

Can all the conservatives on here cool it? This one isn't ambiguous. It's not the standard "person who is so crazy that they will try to assassinate the president and their ideology is scrambled and makes no sense and is the person is unraveling" like the two people who took shots at Trump and others in history (the guy who shot McKinley was like this).

It is also not "crazy guy who wants one faction of their own party to take over" like the guy who shot Garfield.

This one is "extreme right-wing nutjob Christian nationalist", very easy to pinpoint based on almost everything everyone is learning about him.

Not a generic person who likes to wear a red MAGA hat so everyone stop assuming this is rank-and-file MAGA. It's not. It's someone /waaaaaaay worse/.

OrnamentJones

@ everyone saying he was a democrat 

&gt; The Minnesota assassin who shot Democratic lawmakers “voted for Donald Trump and was a strong Trump supporter,” according to his best friend.

https://bsky.app/profile/briantylercohen.bsky.social/post/3lrm25ydjwk2q

OjamaPajama

The Shooter was a registered Republican since 2004.

*Fascinating*

Foxnews trying to do damage control by implying that the suspect was left leaning.

...

Fuck Fox news.

Putrid_Masterpiece76

This is what fucking happens when you have a president say political violence is ok.

Economy_Link4609

That fox 9 reporter broke me.  You can tell how good of a person she is when a reporter can't keep it together.  


Also Pat (R) was crying and just saying how great she was.  This is horrific for all kinds of reasons but most of all we lost a genuinely good person.

JrFromKC

The maga cult is doing exactly what they’ve been groomed to do

ThinOpinions

The state needs to throw every charge possible at the assassin. Any federal charges could be pardoned by Trump.

Kittens4Brunch

And there it is.

The Minnesota assassin who shot Democratic lawmakers “voted for Donald Trump and was a strong Trump supporter,” according to his best friend.

https://x.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1934020770419651059

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We already knew though. Don't let them flip the script.

NewJackCap

It's so insane to watch the Conservative sub try and claim 1) that he's a liberal and 2) that republicans do not enable this behavior when violence against progressives is literally exactly what conservatives want. They act as if they weren't thrilled about the insurrection and glad Trump is pardoning all those people.

ryanandhobbes

America is about to spiral down a hole that will take generations to come out of. To say you guys are fucked would be an understatement.

Trustbutnone

All MAGA has left is forced obedience through intimidation, violence, and assassinations. The cult must be rooted out now.

brainser

Myrtle_Nut

- white christian nationalist
- anti-abortion
- manifesto with 70+ DEMOCRAT names
- literally shot TWO DEMOCRAT politicians 

but nooo being appointed by a democrat governor for a strictly none-partisan position is somehow more than enough evidence to say Tim was actually the one who paid him and he’s actually a “leftist lunatic” gtfo with your astroturfing replies

He already posed as a police officer, you don’t think his No Kings flyers was also a disguise? 

the delusions in here from either bots or people unwilling to believe evidence….

Rude_Grapefruit_3650

Literally everyone in the world waiting for Trump to come out and say this was Democrats fault, and pardon the murderer. 

These are his people, they did it for him, and he won’t denounce it, just watch.

Freddy-Borden

Radical right wing terrorism…call it what it is

And it’s not even that radical, it’s just putting into action what gop party leaders have been saying for years

prescience6631

Conservatism never willingly coexists peacefully and inevitably becomes increasingly and openly more violent

KlingonLullabye

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