RIP Melissa Hortman and spouse Mark Hortman

[question everything]

An impersonator police officer. They say call 911 to confirm. Also officers will come in pairs.

[SheltieLover]

1. Perfect example of why ALL LEOs, including ICE must be easily identifiable! No masks & forced to wear body cameras!

[lapfog_1]

2. Trump has even more blood on his hands.

The dividing of America, radicalization pushed by Fox and the rest of these freaks, people that when I first became politically aware in high school, were laughed at as kooks ( The John Birch Society ). This was in what was middle of the road Kansas, Eisenhower republican Kansas. I don't even recognize Kansas now.

Everybody says we need to come together as a nation. Right now, I don't believe that is possible. Trump and his "cabinet" of freaks and goons will never look for middle ground ( and the middle is now what was "far right" ). They will only agree with you if YOU bend the knee and either agree with them 100 percent or stay silent and never vote again.

The killing of USAID might kill thousands more people than a nut job impersonating a police office with a manifesto and list of ( probably all Democrats ) of people to kill is what we have to deal with today. Trump is either pardoning or stopping the prosecutions of people just like this killer ( the Whitmer kidnappers, the Jan 6 rioters ).

But don't worry, Pam Bondi and Kash Patel are on the case.

There is something happening here, what it is isn't exactly clear, there is a man with a gun over there...

We are finally on our own.

Trump did this.

[mzmolly]

3. Horrible.

[Nanuke]

4. So unbelievable what happened in my state as I head out to protest. God help us.

[progree]

5. B.P. officers went to check on the Hortman home after learning that a state senator had been shot just miles away.

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/what-we-know-about-the-cop-impersonating-gunman-who-killed-minnesota-lawmaker
6/14/25 about 11 am

Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley said officers went to check on the Hortman home after learning that a state senator had been shot just miles away. They arrived at the home just after the suspect had carried out the attack. "When they arrived at Melissa's house, they noticed that there was a police vehicle in the driveway with the emergency lights on and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house. When our officers confronted him, the individual immediately fired upon officers, which exchanged gunfire, and the suspect retreated back into the home."

The suspect then fled through the back door of the Hortman home and he remains at large as of 10 a.m. Saturday.

Still at large as I post this 1:53 PM CDT after a quick Google search on the suspect Vance Luther Boelter

Maybe my expectations are low, but anyway I'm pleased that the Brooklyn Park police were proactive enough to check on the Hortman's house after hearing of the Hoffmans' shooting. And while they didn't prevent the killing of the Hortman's, they at least got the fake police vehicle he was driving.

[progree]

6. Boelter also visited two other lawmakers' homes the night of the shootings - a Senator in New Hope and a Maple Grove rep

Chilling details emerge in Minnesota shootings as Vance Boelter faces federal charges: 'Stuff of nightmares', ABC News, 1218p 6/16/25
https://abcnews.go.com/US/minnesota-lawmakers-shooting-suspect-vance-boelter-due-court/story?id=122882740

. . . ((After shooting the Hoffmans -P)) At 2:24 a.m., Boelter allegedly drove to a state representative's house in Maple Grove, Thompson said. That lawmaker was not home as she and her family were on vacation, Thompson said, and Boelter left the scene. Boelter then allegedly drove to a state senator's home in New Hope and parked on the street, Thompson said. ((there's only one state senator living in New Hope that I know of -- Ann Rest, DFL New Hope -P))

At 2:36 a.m., after learning of the shooting at Hoffman's home, New Hope police dispatched an officer to the New Hope lawmaker's house, Thompson said. When the officer arrived, she saw Boelter's car parked down the block and she believed Boelter was an officer dispatched to the scene, Thompson said.

The officer pulled up next to Boelter, rolled down her window and tried to speak with him, but he did not respond and stared straight ahead, Thompson said. So the New Hope officer drove to the state senator's home and waited for other law enforcement, and by that time, Boelter had left the scene, Thompson said.

After the Hoffmans were shot, officers proactively went to the home of his fellow lawmaker, former Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives Melissa Hortman, in the nearby town of Brooklyn Park. . . .