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
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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.
"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."
If they die then Republicans gain control of the State House and become tied in the Senate, BTW
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"]
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.
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
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.
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!"
Impersonating a CIA deep cover agent
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
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.
You can buy or salvage lights and have pretty much any decal you want put on a large magnet.
Early reports say shooters were impersonating police officers. Watch it be actual police officers.
Shooters plural?!
Only one suspect at this time.
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.
:spiderman-point: "He could be any one of us!"
Best to shoot everybody, just in case. 
It could be you! It could be me! It could even be...
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.
My personal theory that he was essentially
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.
Al Franken should kill two republicans as reprisal.
Both Democrats. It'd be nice to think they're starting from the dems and working their way to the right, but... 
Yeah i was gonna be like AWESOME but then remembered Minnesota makes them statistically more likely to be democrats or socialists
If only...
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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.
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
buckle up buckaroo!
shits about to get wild(er)
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?
I don't know why they would go after protestors when they were clearly targeting political figures.
Lust for violence? idk just putting out there what I saw on the news.
Fail state be failin'
Zionist lawmakers, not gonna shed a tear for fascist infighting. My prayers go out to the innocent bullets
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.
Can I get in a lol lmao or no?
I wonder if whoever did this is trying to tip votes on things like abortion.