Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman (D) murdered by man with “NO KINGS” flyers in his car
- Jane Bilello
- 2 days ago
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The suspect in the assassination of a Democrat lawmaker in Minnesota Saturday morning had a stack of flyers reading ‘No Kings’ in their vehicle, Minnesota State Patrol said on X.
“Given the targeted shootings of state lawmakers overnight, we are asking the public to not attend today’s planned demonstrations across Minnesota out of an abundance of caution,” the MSP said, adding, “The photo is of flyers inside the vehicle of the suspect in today’s shootings.”
‘No Kings’ refers to the thousands of demonstrations scheduled to take place throughout the United States Saturday in protest of President Donald Trump as he holds a military parade on his birthday.
Given the targeted shootings of state lawmakers overnight, we are asking the public to not attend today’s planned demonstrations across Minnesota out of an abundance of caution. pic.twitter.com/7hFccnrQUT— MN State Patrol (@MnDPS_MSP) June 14, 2025
Newsweek reports
They are advising people to stay away from planned ‘No Kings’ Protests throughout the state following the assassination of a Democrat lawmaker and her husband.
Minnesota Democratic state Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed early Saturday morning in an act of “targeted political violence,” Governor Tim Walz said during a press conference Saturday.
Hortman and her husband, Mark, were pronounced dead Saturday morning after a gunman posing as law enforcement arrived at their home in the early hours and shot them. Walz called the shooting “a politically motivated assassination.”
The gunman, who remains at large, had targeted the home of Hortman after shooting Senator John Hoffman and his wife at their home.
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NO Kings’ CCP Connection
The Daily Caller’s Philip Lenczycki reported,
The leader of a Chinese American political action committee involved in organizing upcoming protests against federal immigration enforcement under the “No Kings” banner is also a director of a taxpayer-funded group with extensive ties to Beijing’s intelligence network, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has discovered.
Asian Americans For Progressive America (AAPA) is a California-based political action committee promoting an upcoming national protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) targeted enforcement operations, according to announcements and flyers. AAPA’s president, Elaine Peng, also serves as an executive for United Chinese Americans (UCA), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that has received U.S. government grants worth roughly $370,000 for a mental health program it runs called WAVES, for which Peng is the “director of training.”
UCA claims to be focused on “enriching and empowering Chinese American communities through civic engagement” and has often invoked racial discrimination as the reason it holds protests against U.S. national security initiatives and immigration enforcement. However, translated Chinese government and state media reports reveal a significant number of the nonprofit’s leaders have also served as members of the Chinese government, Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and/or Beijing’s intelligence arms, raising concerns among analysts about foreign influence.
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