The Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison had a blunt message for the suspect to be wanted in the shootings of local politicians yesterday: “We are not intimidated.”
Ellison said he is on the list in a notebook belonging to Boelter that seemed to include the names of the politicians who pointed to the suspects.
“He murdered my dear friend Melissa Hortman, who was on that list, and knocked my other dear friend, John Hoffman, who was on that list along with her spouses,” Ellison said.
Ellison insisted that the State is not going back.
“This guy can’t intimidate us. You can have any type of list you want,” he said. “We will be safe. We will be pragmatic. But we are not going to stop defending justice.”
Ellison spoke about the “climate of political violence, where violence is considered as an option to achieve a political objective”, which has been recently entrenched throughout the country, with a series of lone wolf attacks that seem to have had political motivations.
“We must all report it,” Ellison said, calling the shootings an “act of an evil individual who committed an evil, atrocious and cowardly act.”
