A shooter clad in black gunned down school children during a back-to-school Mass at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Two children, ages 8 and 10, were killed in the pews. Another two victims are in critical condition. Of the 17 injured in the attack, 14 were children.
According to police, the shooter apparently barricaded the doors from the outside and began opening fire into the church through the windows.
The coward responsible, who has not yet been identified, used a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol, and ultimately committed suicide at the back of the church.
The day before the church attack, seven individuals were shot, one mortally, behind Cristo Rey Jesuit High School. One witness described the scene to KSTP-TV as a “blood shower.”
While these evil acts are particularly egregious, Minneapolis has seen a great deal of violence and bloodletting in recent months and years. While murders are down this year, assault offenses exceed those committed last year and are significantly higher than the previous three-year average. According to Neighborhood Scout, the city ranks 1 on the crime index, where 100 is safest.
‘This cruelty must end.’
Democratic Gov. Tim Walz’s recent criticism of the Trump administration’s efforts to restore law and order to Democrat-run cities has aged especially poorly in light of the recent mass shootings and the city’s general problems with violent crime.
In addition to defending DEI and championing Minnesota as a sanctuary for trans-identifying individuals in his Monday speech at the Democratic National Committee summer 2025 meeting in Minneapolis, Walz characterized the Trump administration’s efforts to curb crime with the help of the National Guard as cruel, “fascist,” unconstitutional, and as a “flaunting [sic] of the rule of law.”
The Democratic governor insinuated further that Trump was following the “law of the jungle” contra the “law of human decency,” and stated, “This cruelty must end.”
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) told the Guardian that if the president tried to repeat in Minneapolis the successful crime-reduction efforts undertaken in Washington, D.C., “It would be just a blatantly illegal usurpation of local control.”
“Of course, we would take immediate action to get injunctive relief,” Frey added.
While Democrats are resistive to the intervention by the Trump administration, the president’s crime-fighting initiative in Washington, D.C., has so far been a resounding success. Following the federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department and the deployment of the National Guard, there were no murders for at least 10 days.
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