Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey spoke during a press conference on Wednesday, hours after the shooting at a Catholic church and K-8 school in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, a transgender gunman opened fire, shooting through the windows of the church at Annunciation Catholic School as students attended mass during the first week of the school year. His manifesto was posted to YouTube before the shooting, and it was revealed that he wrote “kill Donald Trump” on one of his guns.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara confirmed that the shooter, a male in his early 20s, opened fire on children as they attended mass at the school, killing at least two children and injuring 14 children and three adults. Police say he was armed with three guns: a rifle, a shotgun, and a handgun.
O’Hara later confirmed that 14 children between the ages of six and 15 and three adult parishioners in their 80s were among the 17 injuries.
In one manifesto video uploaded to YouTube before the shooting, the now-deceased shooter shows guns with scribbled words, including “kill Donald Trump,” and a body target on his wall with an image of Jesus Christ on the head of the target.
The FBI has confirmed that it is investigating the shooting as domestic terrorism and a hate crime against Catholics.
In Tim Walz’s speech, he rightfully thanked President Trump for his attention to the matter, but it was not a particularly strong speech as the chief executive of the state. Notably, he failed to condemn the targeted violence against Catholics by one of his insane transgender constituents or mention the mental illness that the shooter suffered. He likely hopes that part of the story will go away.
WATCH:
Walz: Certainly a day in a news conference that no one wants to be at. A community behind us, Annunciation Church and school, committed academics, service, and Catholic values filled with the first days of school of beautiful children going to learn those values, share with their teachers and their classmates, and instead of that joy and that curiosity and that learning, they were met with evil and horror and death. And we often come to these and say, these unspeakable tragedies, or there’s no words for this. There shouldn’t be words for these types of incidents because they should not happen, and there’s no words that are going to ease the pain of the families today. On behalf of all the people of Minnesota, our deepest sympathies, a wish that any of these words would make what you’re feeling now better, but it won’t. A place that’s founded on community, founded on service, founded on family. I’d like to give special thank you to the mayor and the team in Minneapolis, the Minneapolis Police Department, Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, Minnesota State Patrol, the BCA, so many agencies, our federal partners in the FBI, the first responders, and the heroic work that’s happening now as we speak at multiple medical locations, including Hennepin County Medical Center, where most of our children were transported to receive the life saving care.
The thoughts and prayers and the hopes and the support that we need to give them in this moment too, is critical. Speaking with all the people here and grateful to our federal partners, Senator Klobuchar, speaking early this morning, and receiving a call from President Trump, who was with his leadership team of the Attorney General and the Vice President, expressing their deep condolences amongst the horror that happened, and an offer to provide the support to the folks here in Minnesota of what’s needed. So, a lot of cameras here, and unfortunately, we have been through these types of things. They will be gone, some point, all of you, you have to, you have to do your jobs. But what happened here today will not be gone. Minnesotans will not step away. We’ll stand with this community. We’ll redouble ourselves to do the best we can, to understand what we can do to prevent any parent from having to receive the calls they received today, from any school dedicated to children having to respond to a situation that, as we said, is unthinkable, but that’s all too common, not just in Minnesota, but across this country. It’s Minnesota’s day today, and it’s my strongest desire that no state, no community, no school, ever experiences a day like this. So, I ask the rest of folks around the country who are watching, keep us in your thoughts and prayers, but also keep us in the thoughts for action, keep us in the ideas that we can work together. And it’s on these days like this, I think, and I hope we can hold on to it, We are unified as a community. Everybody across the country today is part of the Annunciation Parish, and they’re with those families.
Mayor Jacob Frey then used the chance to rail against innocent, law-abiding gun owners in America and people who have highlighted the mentally ill condition of the shooter. He used his speech to push the narrative that this happened because “we’ve got more guns in this country than we have people.”
However, the shooter reportedly wrote in his manifesto that he targeted a gun-free zone because the victims “would be unarmed.”
The shooter claims that he would only target a “gun free zone” because the victims are defenseless. pic.twitter.com/3sVfX4fhHO
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“I have heard about a whole lot of hate that’s being directed at our trans community,” he said in a disgusting politicization of the shooting by a member of the trans community. He then appeared to credit the “hate” against transgenders as one of the reasons this happened.
Frey: Look, we need to be doing more than talking. It can’t just be words. There needs to be action. And when we have seen school shooting after school shooting, we have seen churches get shot up by horrible actors, I think the impetus has to be on all of us as leaders to do a whole lot more to recognize that we’ve got more guns in this country than we have people. And it’s on all of us to recognize the truth and the reality that we can’t just say that this shouldn’t happen again, and then allow it to happen again and again beyond that. it’s on all of us.
And I have heard about a whole lot of hate that’s being directed at our trans community. Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community, or any other community out there, has lost their sense of common humanity. We should not be operating out of a place of hate for anyone. We should be operating from a place of love for our kids. Kids died today. This needs to be about them. This needs to be wrapping our arms around these families with every bit of love that we can possibly show. And I know that our Minneapolis family and well beyond is prepared to do exactly that. And so my message to everyone out there is, again, these families are experiencing some acute pain right now, but don’t just think of these as somebody else’s kids. Think of your own. Let’s make sure that we’re acting now to not just say it’s never happening again, but ensure it doesn’t.
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