Former Minnesota Vikings player Jack Brewer has slammed Tim Walz for allowing the state to become ‘the capital of chaos’ with a manhunt underway for the alleged killer of a state senator.
State Representative Melissa Hortman was killed and fellow Democrat State Senator John Hoffman and his wife were shot and injured in a chilling assassination spree in the early hours of Saturday morning. The gunman was wearing a creepy Halloween-style mask.
The suspect has been identified as 57-year-old Vance Boelter – an employee of security company Praetorian Guard Security, where he works as the director of security patrols, according to the website.
Brewer, who also played for the Golden Gophers before signing for the Vikings in 2002, tore into Minnesota governer Walz for what he sees as the deterioration of the state.
‘On this Father’s Day, I wish Minnesota would focus on restoring fatherhood — protecting women, protecting families. Tim Walz is the example of a weak, emasculated leader. That is not what God made fathers to be. It’s pathetic,’ he told Fox.
‘It’s terrible. The root cause of all of this is evil. When you’re willing to attack, ridicule, riot and protest anyone who believes something different — even in your own party — you’ve gone too far.’
An ex-Vikings player slammed Tim Walz after the killings that have shocked Minnesota
Jack Brewer has criticized Walz for his ‘weak’ and ’emasculated leadership’ in the state
Terrifying new images show the suspect behind Saturday’s ‘politically motivated assassinations’ wearing a creepy Halloween-style mask while launching his killing spree
Brewer, who played two seasons for the Vikings, continued: ‘The Democrats have gone so far left that if you’re not a raging liberal, you’re under attack. They are forcing everyone in the party to conform.
‘Whenever you give Satan power, he shows his face. That’s what we’re witnessing now.
‘We need to start calling this what it is. These people have lost their minds. I am heartbroken to see one of the most amazing states in America completely turned around under Gov. Tim Walz. Minnesota is confused.
‘I played for the Vikings. I played for the Gophers. I lived in Minnesota for years. It was not like this. People were respectful. People could disagree and still have conversations. I still have a lot of family there, and it hurts to see what they’re living through.
‘Minnesota has become the capital of chaos in America. That’s not right. It’s not a reflection of the true people of Minnesota. There are a lot of good people there.
‘But the liberal hub around Minneapolis and St. Paul has taken over, and it’s dangerous. Tim Walz is the leader of that. His attorney general, Keith Ellison, is right there with him.’
Walz, meanwhile, was emotional when he gave a statement on Saturday about the killings.
Police say Boelter wore the eerie face-concealing disguise with a police uniform as he posed as a cop and gunned down the lawmakers
‘Today Minnesota lost a great leader, and I lost a friend,’ he said. ‘A formidable public servant and a fixture of the state Capitol, Melissa Hortman woke up every day determined to make our state a better place. She served the people of Minnesota with grace, compassion, and tirelessness.
‘Minnesota’s thoughts are with her loved ones, and my prayers are with Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette, who were shot and wounded and are being treated.
‘We are not a country that settles our differences at gunpoint. We have demonstrated again and again in our state that it is possible to peacefully disagree, that our state is strengthened by civil public debate.’
Cheryl Reeve, the head coach of the WNBA team Minnesota Lynx, said on Saturday in an emotional press conference after her team’s game that Donald Trump’s rise to power coincided with ‘radicalization’.
Fighting back tears at one stage, she said: ‘It’s a really difficult time, not just in our country but in the world. The radicalization that has occurred since, I think it is very clear, the timing of when our country started to turn.
‘Today is a tough day all around. It is sickening. It is a sick time.’
Asked about ‘this time of more and more division’ and the WNBA’s message ‘of inclusion’, Reeve said: ‘I was thinking about the era, the political era of leadership, the term politically correct actually means kindness and thinking of others.
‘When that became weaponized, when inlcusion became weaponized, it is a time now more than ever when we need to stand in that and inclusion is the path.
‘It has been met with a lot of resistance and that is the way of the world. It is all rooted in power – white power, no less.’