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Minnesota Lawmaker Assassination Suspect identified as Vance Luther Boelter

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Minnesota Lawmaker Assassination Suspect identified as Vance Luther Boelter

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Who is Vance Boelter? What we know about suspect in Democrat assassination
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The suspect remains at large while hundreds of law enforcement officers from multiple agencies conduct an intensive manhunt.

https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-lawmakers-shot-d7983e1e4f1a7573a487cab1a98cd172

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/breaking-suspect-idd-in-killing-of-minnesota-democrats-is-former-walz-appointee/

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/video/police-search-for-57-year-old-suspect-involved-in-hortman-hoffman-shooting/

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/57-year-old-suspect-sought-in-targeted-shootings-of-minnesota-state-lawmakers/

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.

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    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvgv4y99n7rt?post=asset%3A1323ea47-f9de-4300-bae2-fb4ea0797aac#post

    Hortman joined Republicans as the lone Democratic vote in support of a provision preventing adult undocumented migrants from accessing the state’s low-income health insurance system.

    Hortman defended her vote as part of a larger compromise to pass a budget in the narrowly divided chamber.

    “I did what leaders do, I stepped up and I got the job done for the people of Minnesota,” she said.

    Hortman was killed four days later.

    The only principled liberal. She said people don’t need healthcare and then she died.

    shrug-outta-hecks

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      I’m highly doubting that the motivation of the shooter was that he supported free healthcare. The suspected shooter worked for private security, had US military ties, and owned a cop car.

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        I don’t mean that. To me he’s chud-coded. I just mean that I’m happy she’s dead for that reason.

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          I am clarifying because right wing twitter have declared the shooter to be a left wing radical. I’m suspecting right wingers will create conspiracy theories similar to the David DePape situation, where they claimed that the attack was motivated by a lover’s quarrel.

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        Seems he also wanted to kill Ilhan Omar and a bunch of abortion rights activists. Seems the only kind of healthcare that was involved in his thinking was about preventing woman from access to it.

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        yeah ofc, but also rip-bozo

      • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
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        yeah he’s probably not even a luigi

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      We must reach across the aisle to heal the partisan divide that’s tearing this great nation apart

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        the aisle being the space between a barrel and the head of fascists and their collaborators

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      It’s so annoying being local to this news right now, because the liberals are UPSET and are revising history as if she was a saint.

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      Damn, that’s kind of ironic.

      This person and her family can honestly go pound sand.

      I’m glad they have to deal with death because of how much they support it.

      I hope people send them lots of “fuck you, you deserved this” cards.

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      Of fucking course she was a ghoul, even among Dems. 0 sympathy now

    • Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      well well well.

      crab dance?

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        I’ve heard worse reasons

        hexcrab-party L hexcrab-party M hexcrab-party A hexcrab-party O hexcrab-party ! hexcrab-party

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      Dont do that Reddit-ass shit where you find something she did that crosses your principles and immediately ascribe that as the obvious motive.

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        I don’t care why she’s dead and doubt that is the reason. I’m just happy she is because she was killing everyone around her.

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        nothing in happy badger’s comment implies he think this is the reason she got shot, he’s just making fun of a ghoul dying

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        Don’t do that reddit ass shit where you bend over backwards to defend the lives of murderous ghouls who rob families of healthcare

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        crosses your principles

        Yeah, denying people healthcare for the sake of political ambition, you know just a simple little everyday thing that crosses some people’s high bound principles, no big deal

        Go fuck yourself chud

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        is that what’s going on in this post?

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        it’s unambiguously good that these freaks are dead, regardless of the killers motive

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