The suspect in the Saturday shooting of State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette in Champlin, Minnesota, and the murders of State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark in Brooklyn Park was arrested Sunday night. (The Hoffmans are recovering from their injuries.)
After the reported shooting of Hoffman and his wife at 2:00 a.m., two police officers in neighboring Brooklyn Park were proactively checking on former Democrat House Speaker Hortman, who lives near the home of the first assault. When they arrived at the Hortman home at 3:30 a.m., there was an SUV equipped like a police vehicle, but with yellow light-bar lights typical for a private security company. An individual who was dressed like a police officer was exiting the front door of the house, and as they approached him, he opened fire on the officers and fled on foot, abandoning his vehicle.
That started a massive 30-hour manhunt by local, state, and federal agencies for the sociopathic suspect, who was soon identified as 57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter. He was the director of security patrols at Praetorian Guard Security Services, which explains the security vehicle and his uniform. He lived with his wife and children in rural Green Isle in the region where the victims reside and had been staying in a rental with friends in Minneapolis in order to cut his work commute.
Soon after the assaults, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz declared correctly: “This was an act of targeted political violence. Peaceful discourse is the foundation of our democracy. We don’t settle our differences with violence or at gunpoint.”
Notably, this is from a governor who has spent years fomenting political unrest and division, and who was scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the anti-Trump “No Kings” protest in Minneapolis just hours after the assaults. That event was canceled after “No Kings” flyers were found in the assailant’s vehicle, which he might have planned to use to get into the event where Walz was scheduled to incite the crowd. (As it turned out, most of those protests across the nation were poorly attended.)
Walz is a Demo protagonist of hate and division, who has excelled at promoting a culture of violence, starting with his 2020 “Summer of Rage” riots, which metastasized nationwide. Typical of his hate rhetoric, two weeks ago, firing up his “No Kings” protest constituents targeting Donald Trump, he called Trump a “dictator” and declared: “Maybe it is time for us to be meaner. Maybe it is time for us to be more fierce because we have to ferociously push back on this. … [We must] stand toe to toe and punch back.”
Notably, many media outlets mentioned that Boelter was a Walz appointee to a state advisory board. The appointment letter from Walz stated, “Because of the special trust and confidence I have in your integrity, judgment, and ability, I have appointed and commissioned you to have and to hold the office of Business Member…” But as I noted to our editorial team, that does not make him a Democrat.
In fact, upon reviewing Minnesota election records, we found that the assailant was last registered as a Republican in 2022, and according to friends, he voted for Trump.
Also recovered from Boelter’s abandoned security vehicle was a list of lawmakers and abortion providers, quickly labeled a “manifesto” with anti-government extremist references.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who had been with the Hortmans at a fundraiser hours before the attack, said, “That was the last time so many of us saw Melissa and Mark.” She added that the lists found in the assailant’s car indicated “some throughline with abortion because of the groups that were on the list.”
Regarding political violence, Klobuchar said, “Some people need to look in the mirror and say, ‘Hey, I have to stop this or stop my colleagues from doing this because it makes it much worse,’” adding that threats against elected officials have jumped from 1,700 in 2016 to 9,000 last year.
Topping the list of those who should “stop this” would be Walz and other Demo hate antagonizers because they are preaching to a rising generation of sociopaths.
What is most unusual about these attacks is that they were committed by a “Republican.”
The vast majority of violence in urban centers across the nation is fomented by leftist agitators and committed by leftist constituents. That is also true of those who target political figures, including the two assassins who wanted to kill Trump last year, the first of whom came a millimeter from succeeding and the second of whom was captured just before Trump was in range.
Recall that the mass-assassination attempt against Republican House members in 2017 by a Bernie Sanders bro — an attack that severely wounded then-House Majority Whip Steve Scalise — would have succeeded if not for Scalise’s security team being present.
In 2022, a leftist assassin was captured before he was able to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and in September of last year, another leftist who had plotted to murder multiple justices was arrested.
Finally, for the record, if Saturday was a typical day, there were 43 other murders across the nation, a grossly disproportionate number of which were black-on-black, but you never hear a word from Democrats about those murders among their most loyal constituency.
Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis
Pro Deo et Libertate — 1776
