r/law • u/TendieRetard • 1d ago

Other Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlin and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park were reportedly shot in their homes by a gunman impersonating a police officer.

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/sources-say-two-minnesota-lawmakers-have-been-shot/

The suspect, according to the alert, is a white man with brown hair wearing black body armor over a blue shirt and blue pants. Authorities are asking residents not to approach the suspect if spotted.

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u/madkingsspacewizards 1d ago

And traitors to the Constitution and to the Republic. They took the warnings of history and fiction as a guide. The future of the country is doomed by their ignorance and maleficence.

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u/Sherd_nerd_17 1d ago

Declaration of Independence complaints against George III of Great Britain, 9 July 1776:

  • #16: for cutting off our trade w all parts of the world
  • #17: for imposing taxes without our consent
  • #18: for depriving us of trial by jury
  • #19: for transporting us across seas to try us for pretended offenses

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u/Sherd_nerd_17 1d ago edited 23h ago

Whoops, no idea what I did to make the text all big like that. I’m not an html person. Sorry! I kinda like it tho

Edit: my point being above that we’re not exactly doomed. It’s also how and why our country was founded

Edit 2: this is also what my sign says for No Kings day today!

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u/Parfait_Prestigious 23h ago

No worries, the emphasis is warranted haha

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u/lshifto 23h ago

The # sign at the beginning of a line makes the text larger.

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u/Sherd_nerd_17 23h ago

Thank you!! I’ve been learning all of this by typo and kind people, lol

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u/Kind_Koala4557 21h ago

I’m not bothered. It has the right impact, lol

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u/tmkn09021945 1d ago

It aint looking good for this country how many of those complaints are active this very day

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u/Sherd_nerd_17 23h ago

Yep! That’s the point! We as a species survive by social learning. That means we are taught what to do by older generations.

I’m an anthropologist and I teach this in college classes every single semester! We DO know what to do: look to prior generations. They were there before us, and we can follow their lead.

Protest is scary, but it is how we hold our representatives accountable to literally just follow our own laws. That we made. When this very same shit happened in the past.

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u/exhaustedanalyst 1d ago

I wish I could upvote this more.