***Breaking*** Suspect Sought In Targeted Shooting Of Democratic Lawmakers In Minneapolis

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Sources have told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS’ Tom Hauser that two Minnesota Lawmakers have been shot.

Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlin and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park were reportedly shot in their homes by a gunman impersonating a police officer.

A manhunt is currently underway in Brooklyn Park for a man pretending to be a police officer.

The suspect, according to the alert, is a white man with brown hair wearing black body armor over a blue shirt and blue pants. Authorities are asking residents not to approach the suspect if spotted.

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https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/sources-say-two-minnesota-lawmakers-have-been-shot/

Occam's Razor- Suspect Is A MAGA.

[Ocelot II]

1. White guy dressed as a cop. The MN House is tied D vs. R, and the Senate is D by one seat.

Take out one member from each house, then what? If it becomes necessary, to replace a senator or a representative a special election has to be called. Right now the legislature isn't in session and doesn't start up again until January so nobody's voting on anything for awhile; if these people were particularly targeted I'm thinking it's intended as much as a warning as of a disruption of the legislature's balance.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Yes the message is that even if you get a majority, we will make it a minority real quick.

And the other message to Dems: don't run for office or we will kill you.

[Demsrule86]

19. Lets make it such big win...they lose power for decades...

WE need to go after the Senate as well...no more ceding states to these monsters...The Senator and her husband are dead...the damn news says we need to come together. Fuck that. WE need to bury them politically.

[BComplex]

34. We need to run for office on the republican ticket.

Democrats aren't fighting a war at this point. We're not getting together on a strategy to win our country back from the nazis.

[Hornedfrog2000]

52. Exactly

We are at war. Say it with me. This is war, and we need to fight outside our normal rules.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. This follows on the thrashing of Sen. Padilla

Have any Republicans expressed regret? Or a plea to tone things down? I haven't read of any.

[Irish_Dem]

5. It is open season on Dem leaders.

[dchill]

42. Sorry we shot you?

Sorry we missed?

[Emile]

4. Trump's NAZI AMERICA.

[Irish_Dem]

6. This is the country the PutinGOP wants.

[Emile]

7. Sadly, you are right.

[MaeScott]

8. CNN is finally covering it. I guess cable had to

Since the internet has this story all over it

[berniesandersmittens]

9. It should be called what it is - assassinations

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Two people were assassinated.

A lawmaker and her husband assassinated. A lawmaker and his wife shot in assassination attempt.

[OldBaldy1701E]

11. BINGO!

To say less is to insult the victims as well as the intelligence of the electorate.

[Prairie Gates]

10. Literally every time somebody says "Prob a MAGA" it turns out to be otherwise

and the usual trolls come around gleefully correcting people.

[Demsrule86]

21. You thing a Democratic member of the Minnesota legislation was shot down for no reason.

The House in Minnesota is tied. WE can figure it out. Also, there is a hit list.

[brush]

29. "Literally every time...?" Don't you mean just about eveytime a known Democrat is shot it's probably a magat?

[Tribetime]

33. I must see different news than you do

[ForgedCrank]

49. Yea, I

wish we could just condemn the evil that does this sort of thing. It's a 50/50 shot every time and it doesn't matter in the end. We have to get people to calm down or the nuts get agitated and do this crap. Now people are dead, again

[Ruby the Liberal]

60. This one is GOP

Walz appointed him to a bipartisan Governor’s Workforce Development Board with a term through 2023.

I'm going to guess these folks were personally known to him. Hopefully they catch him alive and lock his ass up in a cage for the rest of his life. No easy out asshole.

[Prairie Gates]

62. This one is predictable right down to the Putinite trashbags commenting on how weird it all is

[traveler50]

12. Trump

Horrific. If anyone dies it will be another death attributed to Trump. May he rot in hell.

[KewlKat]

13. Rep Hortman and spouse are dead.........Hoffman's they said are in surgery

[frogstar0]

14. Of course all republicans will accept that they are resopnsable for this...

As they insist that all democrats are responsible for every rock thrown in LA.

[Demsrule86]

15. One is dead...bastards.

[question everything]

18. Two. Representative Melissa Hortman and spouse Mark

[Demsrule86]

22. They look young...do they have kids?

[question everything]

24. Yes, two.

[ForgedCrank]

50. This is

absolutely horrifying. I can't believe there are people among us who stoop to this level. How many lives destroyed just in this one incident?

[Demsrule86]

16. According to MSNBC...there is a hit list.

[Hope22]

17. Shooter is probably tucked away in a safe house by now.

First of many time bombs I fear!

[bdamomma]

20. OMG

Targeting Democratic Officials, and the suspect impersonated himself as a police???

It's the lunatic right.

[ShazzieB]

46. The lunatic right, for sure.

Two different Dem lawmakers shot in their homes by two different people on the same morning is just WAY too much of a coincidence to be anything else!

[dalton99a]

23. They need to kill him dead ASAP.

[niyad]

38. "graveyard dead", don't forget.

[dem4decades]

58. wouldn't you want to interview him to see if he's part of something bigger?

[Chasstev365]

25. And Jesus Boy Mike Johnson said the other day that

Gavin Newsom should be "Tarred and Feathered."

I can't stand the evilness of the Trump era GOP.

[newdeal2]

26. If the press has any guts

They would badger him every day about this.

[senseandsensibility]

37. Did they even ask him about that comment?

Or just smile and nod like good little stenographers?

[CountAllVotes]

28. That was clearly a threat

They should be jailed!

[Initech]

30. And Ron DeShithead said that it's a right for people to run over protesters.

And there was also that shitty sheriff in Miami who said that they will kill protestes. Remember these things always start with a “wink wink nudge nudge” kind of deal and people always laugh it off as a joke - until someone takes them up on it, then it becomes disturbing.

[CountAllVotes]

27. If the pukes had any decency at all ...

They would cancel the 'effing "parade".

Things are clearly way out of hand!

SHAME ON ALL OF THESE MURDERERS!

[Initech]

31. If this country were just, this would be what gets them all thrown out of office.

[CountAllVotes]

35. They all need to go!!!!

NOW!

This is not the America I have been born and raised in nor the America my father and husband fought for!

DUMP ALL OF THESE CRIMINALS!

[OC375]

32. The Troubles

Feels like a nightmare. Like The Troubles in Ireland, but in the US. Sickening. Surreal.

[CountAllVotes]

36. There is a poster from Ireland

He's on twitter and says he's posting his grotesque garbage w/the approval of dump and musKKK !

Copycat fool with nothing better to do!

[Bookreadingliberal53]

39. Plus they found No Kings protest flyers in the gunman's car.

[ecstatic]

40. this is on trump. 100%

[Ping Tung]

41. Will the Birthday Boy cancel his Bigliest parade and declare a day of mourning for the assassinated?

[mn9driver]

47. I'm guessing the odds of that

Are zero to several decimal places

[Metaphorical]

43. Was the man just "impersonating" a cop?

There are a lot of things unsaid at this point in the media:

* Getting a uniform is not easy, getting the full RIG (vest, radio, gun, etc.) plus identification is much more difficult.
* The car was an MPD police car.
* The man was seen but fled on foot?!

Was this a case of an impersonator, or a cop gone rogue? The timing was also of course in no way accidental.

[keep_left]

55. Makes me wonder if this is a real-life "Magnum Force" scenario...

...those of a certain age may remember that movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum_Force

[waterwatcher123]

44. Melissa Hortman was Very Effective and Accomplished.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Hortman

It is hard to believe that Wikipedia is already updated with her and her husband's death. She was a key player in the MN House, shepherding a very progressive agenda through a nearly evenly divided legislature.

[LPBBEAR]

45. Predictions

This asshole will turn out to be

1. A pardoned J6 rioter
2. A Republican
3. White Power freak
4. Trump supporter
5. 2nd amendment Gun nut
6. Racist
7. Nazi
8. FOX News fan

Did I forget anything?

[ShazzieB]

48. 9. Asshole

But that goes without saying!

[JHB]

61. "Christian"

[LPBBEAR]

63. So far

This asshole will turn out to be

1. A pardoned J6 rioter (TBD)
2. A Republican (Bingo)
3. White Power freak (TBD)
4. Trump supporter (Bingo)
5. 2nd amendment Gun nut (Probably based on info so far)
6. Racist (TBD)
7. Nazi (TBD)
8. FOX News fan (Aren't they all?)

Did I forget anything?

Yep

9. "Christian" Nutjob (Bingo)
10, Homophobic bigot (Bingo)
11. Anti Abortion Crackpot )Bingo)

[TommyT139]

51. One effect: Rethugs now have a state majority

From The Guardian:

Minnesota’s house of representatives was evenly split between Republicans and Democrats. Democrats have a one-vote majority in the state senate.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/14/democratic-lawmakers-minnesota-shot

It will be... interesting to see what the former-minority party does, come Monday.

[OverBurn]

53. On one hand I want the guy dead, but on the other I kinda want him to be taken alive.

To see what kind of information they can get out of him. Is he part of a bigger group? A lone MAGA nut.

[LonePirate]

54. Unless they are able to lift fingerprints or trace the car registration, I don't think they are going to find the guy.

He's likely changed clothes so he could be anyone. Maybe someone will come forward with knowledge about the car or even the assassin.

[bluedigger]

56. Everybody thought Luigi made a clean getaway at first, too.

These guys aren't generally serial killer smart. Give it some time.

[MIButterfly]

57. Lord have mercy.

I have no words. I am stunned. And outraged. And scared.

This can't be America. It just can't.

So much evil. So much permission to be evil given by that monster in the White House.

I know I'm not making sense, but there's no sense to be made of this. None at all.