Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey preached about trans rights during a presser on the mass shooting that left two children dead at Annunciation Catholic School, hours after it was revealed gunman Robin Westman identified as a transgender woman.
“I have heard about a whole lot of hate that’s being directed at our trans community,” Frey told reporters at an update presser Wednesday afternoon.
“Anybody who is using this … as an opportunity to villainize our trans community, or any other community out there, has lost their sense of common humanity. We should not be operating out of a place of hate for anyone,” the mayor said.
Frey stated emotionally that instead of the shooter’s gender-identity and state of mind, public focus should be put on the child victims —- and then he segued into calls for gun control.
“Look, we need to be doing more than talking. It can’t just be words there needs to be action. When we have seen school shooting after school shooting. When we have seen church shootings by horrible actors,” Frey pontificated.
“To recognize that we’ve got more guns in this country than we have people. And it’s on all of us to recognize that we can’t just say that this shouldn’t happen again and then allowed to happen again and again beyond that,” Frey intoned.
Westman, 23, who killed himself on scene, changed his name to Robin and began to identify as a female in 2019, Fox News reported.
His mother, Mary Grace Westman, who worked at Annunciation Catholic School as a secretary until retiring in 2021, signed that document approving of the name change for Robert, according to the outlet.
On a page of the shooter’s deranged writings that he shared on YouTube, one page had a trans pride flag sticker with “Defend equality” printed across the bottom, A black AK-47 sticker laid on top of it.
In that YouTube video, which has since been taken down from the site, Westman is seen stabbing the manifesto as he flips through its pages, muttering in deranged voices, and whispering at one point, “Nothing makes me want to stop my plans.”
Westman carried out his plot Wednesday morning, slaughtering two children and injuring at least 17 others when he opened fire through the stained glass windows of Assumption Catholic Church in Minneapolis during Mass.
“Where is your God?” Westman wrote on one of the magazine clips he posted in the video manifesto.
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