Jun 16, 2025 02:20 AM IST

Utah Sen Mike Lee confronted backlash on social media over his feedback on the current Minnesota shootings

Utah Sen Mike Lee confronted backlash on social media over his feedback on the current Minnesota shootings, which left former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, lifeless, and Sen. John Hoffman and his spouse, Yvette, injured. Authorities recognized the suspect as 57-year-old Vance Boelter. Officers mentioned he wore a masks as he posed as a police officer, even allegedly altering a automobile to make it seem like a police automobile.

Sen Mike Lee confronted backlash for his posts on the Minnesota shootings(X)

Boelter is at massive in the meanwhile, and police have launched a large manhunt.

On Sunday, Sen Mike Lee made a number of feedback on the shootings, inflicting his followers to imagine that he was ‘mocking’ the incidents.

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“This is what happens. When Marxists don’t get their way,” Lee mentioned on X, platform previously often called Twitter. He additionally posted a photograph of the suspect.

“Nightmare on Waltz Street,” the Utah senator mentioned in one other submit, making a dig at Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

Soon, social media customers slammed Sen Mike Lee.

“The Darkest Timeline Numbersmuncher Mike Lee is a garbage human being mocking the assassination of two people by a man who is also in the Trump cult. Delete your account, seek help, and reflect on the life decisions that had led you to this radicalized place,” one particular person posted on X.

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“Mike Lee has been an appalling s**t poster for quite a while now … but this is a whole other level of awful. He has no business being an elected official in a healthy democracy,” one other particular person slammed Lee.

Sen Mike Lee is but to reply to the criticism.

Manhunt for Vance Boelter

Authorities searched a automobile on a rural highway exterior Minneapolis on Sunday that they imagine had been utilized by Vance Boelter. The FBI issued a reward of as much as $50,000 for data resulting in his arrest and conviction. They circulated a photograph taken Saturday of Boelter carrying a tan cowboy hat and requested the general public to report sightings.