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Two MN lawmakers and their spouses shot by someone impersonating police

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Jeebus, this is bad.

https://www.fox9.com/news/melissa-hortman-john-hoffman-lawmakers-shot-minnesota

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Two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses were shot by someone impersonating a police officer, sources confirmed to FOX 9. 

Sen. John Hoffman and Rep. Melissa Hortman, as well as their spouses, were shot in the overnight shootings in Champlin and Brooklyn Park, sources told FOX 9's Karen Scullin. 

Their conditions are not known as of this writing. 

Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and Sen. John Hoffman, as well as their spouses, were shot. 

Hortman, a Democrat from Brooklyn Park, represents District 34B. Hoffman, a Democrat from Champlin, represents Senate District 34.

What we know:

The shelter-in-place alert sent at 5:30 a.m. by Brooklyn Park Police Department is for the 3-mile radius around the Edinburgh Golf Course. 

Police say they are looking for a suspect in multiple targeted shootings. The suspect is armed and dangerous. The suspect is a white man with brown hair wearing black body armor over a blue shirt and blue pants, and he may be impersonating law enforcement. 

 

 

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Why do they assume he’s an impersonator?

Separate incidents? Like, shot one, went somewhere else, shot another?

 

with the spouses goddamn, yeah it sounds like that’s what it is?

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'member when the kidnapping and assassination attempt of Gov. Whitmer was handwaved away as just a bunch of hysterics? I 'member.

Live news conference about to start

 

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16 minutes ago, Captainant said:

'member when the kidnapping and assassination attempt of Gov. Whitmer was handwaved away as just a bunch of hysterics? I 'member.

Yeah, have to go all the way back to 2 weeks ago when the President publicly stated he was considering pardoning them. 

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15 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

Separate incidents? Like, shot one, went somewhere else, shot another?

 

with the spouses goddamn, yeah it sounds like that’s what it is?

That's how it appears.  They're neighboring suburbs though so it wouldn't have taken long to get from one to the other.  I just spoke to my In-laws who live right on the border of the two.  They were woken up by the emergency notice to shelter in place, and just got another to stay inside and not open the door.  

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2 Killed, 2 just out of surgery.  Holy shit.

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And so the night of the long knives begins again.

The "Night of the Long Knives," also known as the "Röhm purge," was a purge carried out by the Nazi regime in Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934. It involved the extrajudicial execution of at least 90 individuals, most of whom were members of the Sturmabteilung (SA, or Brownshirts). The purge was led by Adolf Hitler, who was motivated by concerns about the SA's power and the growing threat to the Reichswehr (German army). 

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Just now, RPM said:

Shooter got away.

After a gunfight with police, per report.

manifesto recovered from car with a list of many other lawmakers if i just understood the PD spokesman correctly.

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6 minutes ago, TexasHooch said:

After a gunfight with police, per report.

Just like the gunfight at the church in Die Hard 2?

6 minutes ago, TexasHooch said:

After a gunfight with police, per report.

Lol.  What,   he just blended in and walked away??

Just now, BlueGreySky said:

manifesto recovered from car with a list of many other lawmakers if i just understood the PD spokesman correctly.

Trying to understand- horman was a US rep and Hoffman is a Minnesota state senator, yes? 

3 minutes ago, Horn Dog said:

Lol.  What,   he just blended in and walked away??

Walked out the door, opened fire on the real cops that just happened to show up, then retreated back inside. Presumably went out the back. He is/was on foot. They have his fake cop car in the driveway.

They also stated all cops will be travelling in pairs. If one shows up by himself he's not real.

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Did they clearly announce that they were lawmakers before they were assassinated?  It apparently makes all the difference.

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No, she was not a US rep. State Rep (and until this year, Speaker of the House).  He is a State Senator.

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2 minutes ago, Horn Dog said:

Lol.  What,   he just blended in and walked away??

 

2 minutes ago, Goredho said:

Did they clearly announce that they were lawmakers before they were assassinated?  It apparently makes all the difference.

I don’t think they barged into their own homes.

3 minutes ago, RPM said:

Walked out the door, opened fire on the real cops that just happened to show up, then retreated back inside. Presumably went out the back. He is/was on foot. They have his fake cop car in the driveway.

They also stated all cops will be travelling in pairs. If one shows up by himself he's not real.

Report I read said his “fake cop car” had lights and sirens. How do you even get that? Seems pretty likely to me that he has at least some background as a LEO

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3 minutes ago, RPM said:

Walked out the door, opened fire on the real cops that just happened to show up, then retreated back inside. Presumably went out the back. He is/was on foot. They have his fake cop car in the driveway.

They also stated all cops will be travelling in pairs. If one shows up by himself he's not real.

They were apparently doing a proactive wellness check because they knew he lived nearby.  Just barely too late, but likely the reason he and his wife are still alive.

5 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

Report I read said his “fake cop car” had lights and sirens. How do you even get that?

Amazon, ebay, internet

they did say it had the red and blue lights - but don't think if they've said it was marked or not.

6 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

Report I read said his “fake cop car” had lights and sirens. How do you even get that? Seems pretty likely to me that he has at least some background as a LEO

Brother, you would be shocked what you can buy online

3 minutes ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

An unmarked regular car?

An SUV with hidden lights like 99% of cop SUVs.

Crazy detail - the real police were already going to Hortman's house to check on them and they came upon the gunman in his police getup GOING INTO HORTMAN'S HOUSE

 

It's fucking insane how much violent rhetoric has come out of the president's mouth. I can only see this as the breaking of the seal, with much more to come stocastically. 

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3 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

I bet dotard will call off the parade out of respect.

Haha, i like to gaslight myself.

Any second now he will produce a somber, respectful video to the nation addressing these heinous crimes and using the power of the bully pulpit to calm the waters while assuring the nation that compassion, unity and brotherhood will prevail.

Oh, I'm sorry. I slipped back into 2008 - 2016 mode again.

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Also, Melissa Hortman is the Dem leader of the MN House, and was the Speaker for the house 2019-2025. This is 100% terroristic targetting of political enemies, completely in line with El Presidente's rhetoric.

 

4 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

Delete not cr

Pretty sure there's no avoiding that now.

I'd love to know what @Rip76 thinks is funny about all this - please, share your sources of information that are informing this view.

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It's pretty shocking how happy some folks on the internet are with this actual terrorist attack and murder. I guess they must be those "second amendment people" that the president was asking to take matters into their own hands, remembering the literal call to arms.

I do not think this is funny in the least.  
It’s you I’m laughing at.  I mean we have no idea who did this, but apparently you do.

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8 minutes ago, Rip76 said:

I do not think this is funny in the least.  
It’s you I’m laughing at.  I mean we have no idea who did this, but apparently you do.

Hot Dog Man GIF

1 minute ago, Js1 said:

Grow up. 

Exactly 

Read the Dems were +1 at the state house and senate, adding to political motivations with his hit list.  I wonder what motivated him?  Who could have possibly foreseen this?

1 hour ago, Captainant said:

Brother, you would be shocked what you can buy online

Not to mention all the "security patrol" Crown Vics and similar running around out there.

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12 minutes ago, Homercles said:

Read the Dems were +1 at the state house and senate, adding to political motivations with his hit list.  I wonder what motivated him?  Who could have possibly foreseen this?

It was a really weird session in terms of numbers and control, but it ended up Dems +1 in the Senate and tied in the House, though Republicans had the Speaker.  At any rate, they are not currently in session.

6 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Not to mention all the "security patrol" Crown Vics and similar running around out there.

I see private security vehicles all around Houston on a daily basis that I have to a double take on because they are painted exactly like HPD or constable patrol vehicles. It’s amazing that they’re allowed to get away with that.

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1 hour ago, TexasHooch said:

They were apparently doing a proactive wellness check because they knew he lived nearby.  Just barely too late, but likely the reason he and his wife are still alive.

Need to correct.  He was shot 1st.  Wellness check was on her.

Delusional conservative with a fake uniform? He'll be identified by his aggy ring.

Both elected Democrats (one a former Speaker of the Minnesota House) voted with the Republicans to remove illegal immigrants from Minnesota Care this week (HF001). One was in the Minnesota House and the other in the Minnesota Senate.  The Bill passed 68-65 in the Minnesota House and 37-30 in the Minnesota Senate. 

Everyone I know in Minneapolis is going WTF... 

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