Minnesota Assassin Targeted Democrats

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

Another day, and another angry white male goes on a shooting rampage in America.

Vance Luther Boelter, a 57-year-old  former supervisor in the private security industry, is on the run today after shooting four people yesterday morning in a pre-dawn assaults at their homes in the Minneapolis suburbs of Minnesota.  Boelter, who was later described by police as being a "registered Republican" and by his roommate as being "a strong supporter of President Trump," apparently was operating from a list of Democratic politicians and prominent supporters of abortion rights which he had drafted himself.  

His first victims were Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, both of whom Boelter shot multiple times at their home in Champlin, Minnesota,  at around 2:00 a.m.    Both of the Hoffmans had to undergo emergency surgeries at an area hospital, and are still alive as of this morning.  The gunman's next stop was at the home of State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, where Boelter shot and killed both of those individuals.

After responding to the first shooting, police then went by the Hortman house to check on them, and there they encountered the shooter as he was leaving the residence.  Gunfire ensued and the killer ran back into the house and subsequently managed to escape, leaving his car, which resembled a police vehicle, behind.  (The car even had emergency lights.).  The police found his hit list in the car.

Also found in the car were several AK-style weapons.  The suspect reportedly has a pistol on his person.

Both Senator Hoffman and Rep. Hortman were members of Minnesota Democratic Farm Labor Party which is essentially the Democratic Party of Minnesota.  Rep. Hortman had recently completed serving five years as the Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives.  She had been at a dinner with US Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota just hours before the shooting.

Prominent names on the gunman's hit list included Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, US Senator Tina Smith, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, and State Attorney General Keith Ellison.  In addition to all being Democrats, Omar and Ellison are both Muslims.   Governor Walz is referring to yesterday's shootings as a "political assassination."

Investigators say Boelter tricked his way into the victims' homes by impersonating a uniformed police officer.

Police describe Vance Boelter as being a white male, 6'1" tall, and weighing 220 lbs.  The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.

While those shootings are shocking, it would be hard to say they are completely unexpected in a country as rife with divisiveness and political bitterness as the United States.   When the nation's leader routinely refers to people who oppose him as "nasty," or "socialists" or "communists," and constantly berates and impugns the character of any individuals who are not in lockstep with his hate-riddled agenda, and the right-wing media repeats his inflammatory rhetoric ad nauseam with their own dramatic enhancements, sooner or later bullets will fly.

Yesterday morning they flew in Minnesota.   Today, or tomorrow, or the next day it will be somewhere else.  The hate is ignorant, and armed, and it is winning.   That has to change or freedom and our very civilization will collapse.

The sky really is falling.