Vance Boelter pleads guilty, agrees to serve life in prison for his attacks on Minnesota lawmakers
In the U.S. District Court of Minnesota, Boelter’s victims and family members of those he killed watched as he pleaded guilty to his crimes.
Vance Boelter pleads guilty, agrees to serve life in prison for his attacks on Minnesota lawmakers
In the U.S. District Court of Minnesota, Boelter’s victims and family members of those he killed watched as he pleaded guilty to his crimes.
Acusado de matar a legisladora de Minnesota y a su esposo se declaró culpable
Vance Boelter expected to plead guilty to federal charges in Minnesota lawmaker shootings
Vance Boelter, the man accused of a deadly attack on Minnesota lawmakers, is expected to plead guilty to federal charges Thursday morning.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/vance-boelter-change-of-plea-lawmaker-shootings/
Trump’s Selective Memory: “Not Familiar” With Assassinated Democratic Lawmaker While Raging About “Left-wing Violence”
Donald Trump’s response to political violence this week reveals something more sinister than mere hypocrisy—it’s the deliberate construction of a false reality where only certain victim…
Did #Religion Motivate Assassination of #Minnesota #Lawmaker?
The #media has overlooked #VanceBoelter’s connection to the New #Apostolic Reformation in his alleged targeting of #publicofficials
https://barnraisingmedia.com/did-religion-motivate-assassination-of-minnesota-lawmaker/
Suspected Assassin Preached on #SpiritualWarfare
Man charged with murdering Minnesota legislator said God would raise up apostles and prophets to correct the church.
Paul O'Donnell, June 16, 2025
"#VanceBoelter, the man arrested in connection with the killing of a Minnesota state legislator and her husband and the shooting of a state senator and his wife on June 14, is an #evangelical missionary who has preached in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in recent years.
"The FBI identified Boelter, 57, as a suspect in the killing of Rep. #MelissaHortman, a Democrat, and Mark Hortman at their home in Champlin, a suburb of Minneapolis. The suspect, who impersonated an officer to gain entry to the Hortmans’ home, was still at the crime scene when police officers arrived, but he escaped after an exchange of fire.
"Earlier, the suspect had shot and wounded Democratic state Sen. #JohnHoffman and his wife, Yvette Hoffman, at their home.
"Boelter identified himself on LinkedIn and other websites as the CEO and president of two security services companies, #PraetorianGuard Security Services and #RedLionGroup, the latter based in DRC, in Central Africa. On his LinkedIn page, which shows that he worked as a general manager at 7-11 in Minneapolis until 2021, he lists himself as open to work.
"But in a video dated February 2023, Boelter is seen preaching at La Borne Matadi, a church in Matadi, on the western coast of the DRC. In one sermon he tells the audience that 'people don’t know what sex they are' because the devil 'has gotten so far into their mind and their soul.'
"In another sermon at the church, one of three he gave from 2021 to 2023, according to Wired, Boelter said, 'They don’t know abortion is wrong, many churches,' he told the audience. 'They don’t have the gifts flowing. God gives the body gifts. To keep balance. Because when the body starts moving in the wrong direction, when they’re one, and accepting the gifts, God will raise an apostle or prophet to correct their course.'
" 'God is going to raise up apostles and prophets in America,' he added, 'to correct his church.'
"On the now-defunct website for #Revoformation, a nonprofit apparently founded by Boelter, a biography said that he was ordained in 1993 and had attended #ChristForTheNationsInstitute in Dallas, a #charismatic 'Spirit-filled Bible School,' according to its website, that helps develop ministry skills."
#MAGA #ChristoFascists
#MAGADeathCult #assassination #USPol #RightWing #MakeAmericaHateAgain #ChristianNationalism
It couldn't be about astonishing privilege, could it? Being permitted leeway to commit violence, to use and abuse others, and enjoy impunity — while one is treated as more complex and deeper than the common lot….
Could it?
Burke:
"Brown and Black men, in contrast, are relentlessly typified when they are associated with political violence. Their individual lives rarely matter, it is rare for them to be profiled."
"They aren’t taken ever as representing movements or institutions or social categories, and their causality is never attributed to other people except family members who might have hurt them or ignored them or offered them their first gun."
We all know, of course, that straight white men are the most persecuted people on the planet. So maybe their experience of marginalization makes them uncommonly complex, people of great depth?