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A Deeply Fractured US

Were either victim involved in contentious political bills or anything?
Maybe the repeal of MinnesotaCare for illegal aliens. Hortman was the only Democrat in the House to vote for repeal. But Hoffman reportedly did NOT vote for repeal in the Senate. Whatever is in the "document" obtained by police should provide the best answer to questions of motivation.
 
As much as many will immediately associate a rise in political violence with the attitudes, pronouncements and general antics of the current US administration, perhaps discussion of this latest incident should be moved to a separate thread or to an existing "general terrorism" thread. There is enough happening in the world that can be directly linked to the Trump administration to fill many more pages here.
These assassinations would fit here: A Deeply Fractured US
 
Much remains to be learned regarding if this was MAGA vs someone else with a significant axe to grind.
 
These assassinations would fit here: A Deeply Fractured US
I proposed that thread be reopened last week, it’s still locked. I’ll take the opportunity to repeat the suggestion.

Regarding the attempted and completed assassinations, ABC has a much more detailed story. Police were proactively checking on the safety of other politicians, and arrived as the assassin was exiting the residence. He opened fire on them and fled. No word if any police are hurt.

 
Sorry, here’s a link to the (now updated) ABC story.


ABC is quoting law enforcement sources as saying numerous state and federal Democrat elected representatives and officials were named in the hit list, and that police are investigating “extreme views on abortion” as a potential motivation.

“The list included dozens of other Democrats from Minnesota, including Gov. Walz, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Sen. Tina Smith and Attorney General Keith Ellison, according to law enforcement sources familiar with the matter.

Law enforcement officials are looking into whether the suspect may have been motivated by extreme views on abortion, the sources said.”
 
Yeah but it’s limited in scope both geographically to the US and to Democrat politicians, so probably best fit into the thread @brihard and @McG identified earlier.
Seen. However, I was thinking about the possible abortion angle that was mentioned, which often has a religious component to motive. So many crazies, so many threads. How to match them?
 
It's gonna be loony tunes time for the conspiracy theorists.

UPDATE: Authorities say the suspect sought in connection with the shootings of state lawmakers Melissa Hortman and John Hoffman is 57-year-old Vance Boelter, sources confirmed to the Associated Press.

Documents obtained by 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS show Boelter, whose current address is listed in Green Isle, Minnesota, was twice appointed to the nonpartisan Governor’s Workforce Development Council in 2016 under former Gov. Mark Dayton and again in 2019 under Gov. Tim Walz. His most recent term expired in January 2023.
 
Good advice
Useless advice, intended only for political advantage/propaganda in the moment. Democrats will go right back to playing with fire as soon as it suits their needs. I suppose this to be true because I've observed several cycles.

As long as people persist in pretending this is a one-sided issue, the issue will persist.
 
Latest MSM takes on the suspect: an intriguing mix of former Democratic appointee to a business council, an evangelical guy trying to bring the Bible to "militant Islamists" and allegedly running at least one security company based in DRC ...

PDF of his LinkedIn profile also attached, and here's his profile from another website for what looks like another company whose president/CEO, according to MSM, is his wife:
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Latest MSM takes on the suspect: an intriguing mix of former Democratic appointee to a business council, an evangelical guy trying to bring the Bible to "militant Islamists" and allegedly running at least one security company based in DRC ...

PDF of his LinkedIn profile also attached, and here's his profile from another website for what looks like another company whose president/CEO, according to MSM, is his wife:
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I’m completely speculating, but I bet interviewing his family and any close associates will find that he’s recently gone through some sort of major trigger event; financial, professional, marital, or some combination thereof. He’s probably long held views that would answer the “why?”, but something separately has to have flicked the switch to ‘off’ the usual inhibitions against awful act that constrain most people’s actions. Something has to tilt the cracker for the cheese to slide off like that.
 
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