Biden to attend funeral for former Minnesota House Speaker Hortman, who was killed in shooting
Minneapolis – Former president Joe Biden and former vice-president Kamala Harris will join the mourning people on Saturday during the funeral of the former Minnesota House president, Melissa Hortman, who was killed in a pair of attacks that the authorities called an assassination and who also left her dead husband and his wife was seriously injured.
Biden also paid tribute on Friday while Hortman, her husband, Mark, and their Golden Retriever, Gilbert, were in the state of the Minnesota Capitol rotunda in St. Paul, a few hours after the man was accused of having killed them when he was disguised as a police officer on June 14, made a brief appearance before the court in a suicide.
The couple’s private funerals, at the Saint Mary basilica in Minneapolis, take place on Saturday at 10:30 am. It will be broadcast live on the youtube channel of the Ministry of Public Security.
Neither Biden nor Harris should speak. Harris expressed his condolences earlier this week to Hortman’s adult children and spoke with Governor Tim Walz, his running mate on the 2024 Democratic ticket, who extended an invitation on behalf of the Hortman family, said his office.
Hortman, a Democrat, was the first woman and one of the under 20 minnesotans to stay in a state of the Capitol. It was the first time that a couple has benefited from honor and the first for a dog. Gilbert was seriously injured in the attack and had to be euthanized. The hortmans circons and the dog’s urn were arranged in the center of the Rotonde, under the Capitol Dome, with agents of the application of laws on the thousands of people deposited by. Many have fought tears leaving.
Among the first to pay tribute was Walz, who called Hortman his nearest political ally, and his wife, Gwen. Biden, Catholic, went later in the afternoon, heading towards the velvet rope in front of the coffins, making the sign of the cross and passing a few moments alone in silence. He then took a knee briefly, got up, raised the sign of the cross and left to salute the people waiting in the wings of the rotunda.
Lisa Greene, who lives in the suburbs of Minneapolis in Brooklyn Park as Hortman did, but in another district of the house, said that she had come to the Capitol because she had so much respect for the former speaker.
“She was simply incredible. An incredible woman. And I was so proud that she represented the city in which I lived,” said Greene in an emotional utter voice. “She was so leader. She could bring people together. She was so accessible. I mean, she was friendly, you could speak to her.”
But, she continued by saying with admiration, Hortman was also “a boss”.
“She just knew what she was doing and she could just make things happen,” she said.
The man accused of having killed the Hortmans at their home and of injuring the senator of the Democratic State John Hoffman, and his wife, Yvette, at their home in Champlin nearby, made a short appearance in court on Friday for what the acting American lawyer for Minnesota, Joseph Thompson, called “a political assassination”.
Vance Boelter, 57, from Green Isle, went near his home on the night of June 15 after the authorities called the largest research in Minnesota history.
An unruted boelter was brought by just wearing a prevention costume for green padded suicide and orange slippers. Federal defender Manny Atwal asked the magistrate Douglas Micko to continue the hearing until Thursday. He accepted. She said that Boelter had been deprived of sleep when he was under the supervision of suicide watch in Sherburne County prison, and it was difficult to communicate with him accordingly.
“Your honor, I haven’t really slept for about 12 to 14 days,” said Boelter to the judge. And he denied being suicidal. “I have never been suicidal and I am not suicidal now.”
Atwal told court that Boelter had been called a “gumby costume”, without underwear, since his transfer to prison after his first appearance before the court on June 16. She said the lights were lit in her region 24 hours a day, the Slament Portes frequently, the inmate in the next cell spread the feets on the walls and the drive of Boelter cells.
The lawyer said that the transfer of segregation instead and giving it a normal prison uniform would let it sleep a little, restore a certain dignity and let it communicate better.
Boelter did not argue. Prosecutors must first obtain an indictment from the Grand Jury. According to the federal complaint, the police video shows Boelter outside the Hortmans homes and captures the sound of gunshots. And he says that the security video shows that Boelter approaches the entry doors for two other legislative houses.
His lawyers refused to comment on the charges, which could bear the federal death. Thompson said last week that no decision had been made. The Minnesota abolished his death penalty in 1911. Boelter also faced a separate murder and tried accusations of murder before the State Tribunal who could bear life without parole.
Friends described Boelter as an evangelical Christian with politically conservative opinions. But the prosecutors have so far refused to speculate on a reason.
