Former Minnesota Vikings player Jack Brewer criticizes Governor Tim Walz as being weak and emasculated following a shooting incident involving a state senator.

Jack Brewer, a former Minnesota Vikings player, criticized Tim Walz for allowing the state to descend into chaos as a manhunt unfolds for the perpetrator accused of killing a state senator.

State Representative Melissa Hortman tragically lost her life, while Democratic State Senator John Hoffman and his wife sustained injuries during a disturbing assassination incident in the early hours of a Saturday morning, perpetrated by an individual donning a sinister Halloween mask.

Identified as 57-year-old Vance Boelter, the suspect is reportedly an employee at Praetorian Guard Security, holding the role of director of security patrols within the company.

Brewer, who also played for the Golden Gophers before signing for the Vikings in 2002, tore into Minnesota governer Walz for what he sees as the deterioration of the state.

‘On this Father’s Day, I wish Minnesota would focus on restoring fatherhood — protecting women, protecting families. Tim Walz is the example of a weak, emasculated leader. That is not what God made fathers to be. It’s pathetic,’ Brewer, who once campaigned for Barack Obama, told Fox. 

‘It’s terrible. The root cause of all of this is evil. When you’re willing to attack, ridicule, riot and protest anyone who believes something different — even in your own party — you’ve gone too far.’

Brewer, who played two seasons for the Vikings, continued: ‘The Democrats have gone so far left that if you’re not a raging liberal, you’re under attack. They are forcing everyone in the party to conform. 

‘Whenever you give Satan power, he shows his face. That’s what we’re witnessing now.

‘We need to start calling this what it is. These people have lost their minds. I am heartbroken to see one of the most amazing states in America completely turned around under Gov. Tim Walz. Minnesota is confused.

‘I played for the Vikings. I played for the Gophers. I lived in Minnesota for years. It was not like this. People were respectful. People could disagree and still have conversations. I still have a lot of family there, and it hurts to see what they’re living through.

‘Minnesota has become the capital of chaos in America. That’s not right. It’s not a reflection of the true people of Minnesota. There are a lot of good people there. 

‘But the liberal hub around Minneapolis and St. Paul has taken over, and it’s dangerous. Tim Walz is the leader of that. His attorney general, Keith Ellison, is right there with him.’

In 2007, Brewer founded the ‘NFL Players for Obama’ support group but switched to voting Republican after disagreeing with the end of Obama’s second term.

‘For me, once I saw the policies that President Obama pushed in the back half of his presidency just — it left a bad taste in my mouth,’ he said in 2019. ‘And then I really started being awakening [sic] to what was happening with the Democratic Party – making so many promises but then abandoning the community that I worked so hard in.’

Walz, meanwhile, was emotional when he gave a statement on Saturday about the killings.

‘Today Minnesota lost a great leader, and I lost a friend,’ he said. ‘A formidable public servant and a fixture of the state Capitol, Melissa Hortman woke up every day determined to make our state a better place. She served the people of Minnesota with grace, compassion, and tirelessness.

‘Minnesota’s thoughts are with her loved ones, and my prayers are with Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette, who were shot and wounded and are being treated. 

‘We are not a country that settles our differences at gunpoint. We have demonstrated again and again in our state that it is possible to peacefully disagree, that our state is strengthened by civil public debate.’

Cheryl Reeve, the head coach of the WNBA team Minnesota Lynx, said on Saturday in an emotional press conference after her team’s game that Donald Trump’s rise to power coincided with ‘radicalization’.

Fighting back tears at one stage, she said: ‘It’s a really difficult time, not just in our country but in the world. The radicalization that has occurred since, I think it is very clear, the timing of when our country started to turn. 

‘Today is a tough day all around. It is sickening. It is a sick time.’

Asked about ‘this time of more and more division’ and the WNBA’s message ‘of inclusion’, Reeve said: ‘I was thinking about the era, the political era of leadership, the term politically correct actually means kindness and thinking of others.

‘When that became weaponized, when inlcusion became weaponized, it is a time now more than ever when we need to stand in that and inclusion is the path. 

‘It has been met with a lot of resistance and that is the way of the world. It is all rooted in power – white power, no less.’