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Minneapolis Mayor Under Fire After Remarks on Church Shooting Response

A tragic shooting at Annunciation Catholic School that claimed the lives of two children and left 17 others wounded has shaken Minneapolis and ignited controversy over Mayor Jacob Frey’s insane response to attack Christians for praying in the aftermath of violence.
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A tragic shooting at Annunciation Catholic School that claimed the lives of two children and left 17 others wounded has shaken Minneapolis and ignited controversy over Mayor Jacob Frey’s insane response to attack Christians for praying in the aftermath of violence.

At a press conference, reported The Daily Caller, Frey voiced anguish over the killings, stressing both the innocence of the victims and the setting of the attack. “Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school, they were in a church,” Frey declared. He added: “These are kids that should be learning with their friends, they should be playing on the playground, they should be able to go to school or church in peace without the fear or risk of violence and their parents should have the same kind of assurance.”

Yet his deranged words struck a nerve. Critics accused him of diminishing the value of prayer itself, pointing instead to his record—most notably his 2023 ordinance allowing mosques in Minneapolis to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer five times daily, a policy that made the city unique among major U.S. municipalities. For detractors, the contrast raised questions about consistency in his embrace of religious expression.

Police Chief Brian O’Hara detailed the carnage: a transgender man in his early 20s opened fire through the church windows during morning Mass, armed with a rifle, shotgun, and pistol. The shooter killed an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old, wounded 17 others—14 of them children—and then died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. “Our hearts are broken for the families who have lost their children,” O’Hara said. “For these young lives who are now fighting to recover and for our entire community that has been so deeply traumatized by this senseless attack.”

State and national leaders responded swiftly. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz called the shooting “horrific,” while President Donald Trump ordered flags lowered to half-staff until August 31 in memory of the victims. Local officials have established a family resource center and scheduled a vigil at Lynnhurst Park to honor those lost.

As did Minnesota Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan, however, some have been reminding the public that the shooting of a church school by a transgender person, the second shooting of that kind in the past few years, followed her apparent call to “defend trans kids” with violence by sporting a t-shirt with the slogan and a picture of a knife.

As the tragedy has unfolded, national Democrats also went on the offensive, using the death of children at the hands of an anti-Israel, transgender woman as a way to attack Donald Trump.

Former Biden director of communications Jen Psaki, for example, also attacked the prayers of grieving Catholics.

 

As the city and church are left to reckon with grief. The comments of Frey and Psaki underscore a party so entangled in political opportunism and obsessed with Donald Trump that even the slaughter of innocent children becomes an occasion for “never letting a crisis go to waste.”

There’s a reason why Democrats hold only a 20 percent approval rating nationally.

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