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[-] [email protected] 19 points 10 hours ago

So you're telling me the Boer CEO of a private military contractor company somehow mysteriously got access to an unprecedented quantity of real cop equipment and then halfassedly printed out a bunch of liberal protest signs to leave on the passenger seat?

And you're telling me that he received minimal to no pushback from police as he carried out multiple political assassinations, specifically targeting DFL politicians so that Republicans could gain the majority in the state?

And the state recommended that the protest be cancelled, so the cops can just go ahead and bungle the manhunt long enough for him to maybe get a couple more kills in?


Wow, I think I need to formally apologize to Tom Clancy. Turns out he's not as much of a hack as I thought. America just really is this stupid.

[-] [email protected] 54 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Dressing up as a police officer is an extremely effective way to confuse law enforcement response and evade detection during the ensuing manhunt. Just look at the 2020 Nova Scotia shooting spree. The shooter had a mocked up cop car & uniform, he killed 22 people and caused all sorts of confusion among law enforcement (of course there's also a lot more to that case including his organized crime ties and links to prison guards but I'm getting off topic) including a few of them opening fire on a community hall.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)
[-] [email protected] 29 points 14 hours ago

:spiderman-point: "He could be any one of us!"

[-] [email protected] 22 points 13 hours ago

Best to shoot everybody, just in case. owl-wink

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

It could be you! It could be me! It could even be...

[-] [email protected] 32 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

It's extremely possible he was a police informant and the "confusion" was them not knowing what to do about 'their guy' going around killing people. He was pulled over by the police a week earlier which is a common way they use to contact informants and a bunch of other things.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 14 hours ago

My personal theory that he was essentiallyboth-sides between being a police informant and being involved with cigarette/liquor/weapon smuggling across the border.

To me it's very likely he was an informant, he was able to get away with shit (his open secret police car, performing a citizen's arrest on a pair of cops) that would get most people in trouble and there was that large cash withdrawal shortly before the shooting that was more than suspicious. He had close ties to both biker gangs like the hells Angels and law enforcement. Hell, one of his targets that day was a couple of prison guards he knew, he spent something like an hour and a half at their property and burned it to the ground as he left.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago

I see no reason to believe this was someone impersonating a pig and not simply a pig acting on the naziism that lead it to become a pig in the first place.

[-] [email protected] 90 points 15 hours ago

Authorities say not to approach anyone matching the description [of a police officer]. Well ahead of you buddy, those guys like to kill non-legislators too, you know

[-] [email protected] 48 points 15 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 49 points 15 hours ago

There was a case here in my town years ago a man pulled a woman over late at night pretending to be a cop and abducted her but she managed to escape. Nice system where the police are above the law and can shoot you if you ask to see basic identification to try and protect yourself. Way to go both dems and repubs empowering the state's armed gang.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

"Now, tell me, why the badge? Why not just use a knife or a gun like a normal car thief?"

"A badge is scarier than a gun."

[-] [email protected] 22 points 13 hours ago

CNN just said the perp had no kings protest signs in their car. Smells like an OP? Or is this organic and they were going to target protestors too?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago

I don't know why they would go after protestors when they were clearly targeting political figures.

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[-] [email protected] 58 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

This is from a Guardian article about it:

The gunman is still at large, law enforcement said on Saturday, and the city of Brooklyn Park still on a shelter-in-place order. The shooter was impersonating a police officer, dressed in a uniform that would appear to be real to most people, police said.

“They did drive a vehicle that looked exactly like an SUV squad car,” Brooklyn Park’s police chief, Mark Bruley, said at a press conference. “It was equipped with lights, emergency lights, that looked exactly like a police vehicle, and yes, they were wearing a vest with taser, other equipment, a badge very similar to mine, that no question, if they were in this room, you would assume that they are a police officer.”

So they had actual law enforcement vehicle? This seems very sus. Less like a "lone wolf" and more like an organized hit.

EDIT: After hearing about the assassin's background, him just being a larper makes more sense but I'm still a little suspicious.

[-] [email protected] 53 points 15 hours ago

I get the feeling that the next thing we're going to hear is something along the lines of "It turns out he's been impersonating an officer for the past 26 years! He impersonated his way through the police training and on to the force, then proceeded to impersonate an officer for decades just to get his hands on police equipment and a vehicle so he could impersonate an officer to carry out these lone wolf attacks!"

[-] [email protected] 21 points 14 hours ago

Impersonating a CIA deep cover agent

[-] [email protected] 26 points 13 hours ago

I’m surprised shit like this hasn’t happened yet with people dressed as ICE, since you get to wear balaclavas and don’t need to have warrants or any kind of explanation for any action you take.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

I heard on a podcast, so no idea if credible, that one of the fastest selling items online right now are ICE patches.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, someone either planned this so well as to get a hold of a police cruiser (via auction, theft or some other malfeasance)

Or this is a porker pulling a Gavrilo Princep

[-] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago

You can buy or salvage lights and have pretty much any decal you want put on a large magnet.

[-] [email protected] 61 points 15 hours ago

If they die then Republicans gain control of the State House and become tied in the Senate, BTW

[-] [email protected] 23 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

And the MN Republicana will absolutely not pussy out if they gain majorities in one or both chambers via political assassination. They wouldn't be able to override the governor's veto and ram through legislation, but they would absolutely use all the powers they have to just fuck with MN and be evil sick fucks.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 14 hours ago

So... A coup. A coup of a subnational government.

[brings up old bingo card titled "things that happened during the Breakup of Yugoslavia that might also happen during the breakup of Seppoland"]

[-] [email protected] 13 points 12 hours ago

Things that happened in the American South post Reconstruction. African American rights were taken away by force from the KKK, who installed their own governments.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

As well as a number of violent coups against Republican and black mayors.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 14 hours ago

very cool government where representatives ostensibly represent the ideology and will of their electorate but if they just get murdered they aren't immediately replaced by someone similar

[-] [email protected] 28 points 15 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 26 points 14 hours ago

As always, the victims were white! And people then go on think that I was programmed badly for speaking out about the possibility of white genocide! Sure, this isn't in South Africa, but then again this may precisely by why the mainstream media is reporting on it. If it were one of the countless attacks on white farms in South Africa, there wouldn't be a whisper about it. Such a complex issue is completely sidelined by a corrupt government and their journalist friends. This is disheartening.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago

I wish we had a real grok bot that replied with real grok responses about white genocide every time "white" was used or something similar

[-] [email protected] 54 points 16 hours ago

Al Franken should kill two republicans as reprisal.

[-] [email protected] 55 points 16 hours ago

Early reports say shooters were impersonating police officers. Watch it be actual police officers.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 14 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago

Only one suspect at this time.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 13 hours ago

Fail state be failin'

[-] [email protected] 38 points 15 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 52 points 16 hours ago

Both Democrats. It'd be nice to think they're starting from the dems and working their way to the right, but... yikes-1yikes-3

[-] [email protected] 25 points 14 hours ago

Yeah i was gonna be like AWESOME but then remembered Minnesota makes them statistically more likely to be democrats or socialists

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

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.

u dont need to feel too bad for this one getting got lol

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago
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[-] [email protected] 24 points 14 hours ago

buckle up buckaroo!

shits about to get wild(er)

[-] [email protected] 17 points 14 hours ago

Zionist lawmakers, not gonna shed a tear for fascist infighting. My prayers go out to the innocent bullets

[-] [email protected] 15 points 14 hours ago

Can I get in a lol lmao or no?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

I wonder if whoever did this is trying to tip votes on things like abortion.

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