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Newly unearthed video shows Vance Boelter, the subject of a massive FBI manhunt, dancing in a church service as his links to Africa were revealed.

The video, filmed in February 2023, shows Boelter, 57, delivering a passionate testimony about how he met Jesus at the age of 17.

'I met the Lord when I was 17 years old and I gave my life to Jesus Christ,' he says in the clip.








He goes on to describe naming his five children after Christian virtues, Grace, Faith, Hope, Joy, and David, in what he calls a testament to God's blessings on his life.

But Boelter the preacher is now the prime suspect in what authorities have described as a targeted political assassination.

Boelter is accused of posing as a police officer and fatally shooting Democratic Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband inside their Brooklyn Park home early on Saturday.

Hours earlier, Boelter allegedly shot and wounded State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, at their home in nearby Champlin. In that case, both victims survived but remain in hospital

The video shows Boelter not only preaching but also describing himself as a man transformed by God. His passionate 25 minute sermon stands in stark contrast to the grim reality of the manhunt now underway.

The footage comes to light as it was revealed Boelter was the CEO of a security company called The Red Lion Group, which is based in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Newly unearthed video shows Vance Boelter, the subject of a massive FBI manhunt, delivering a passionate testimony about how he met Jesus at the age of 17

Newly unearthed video shows Vance Boelter, the subject of a massive FBI manhunt, delivering a passionate testimony about how he met Jesus at the age of 17

The video, filmed in February 2023, shows Boelter, 57, recounting how the Holy Spirit filled him as a teenager

The video, filmed in February 2023, shows Boelter, 57, recounting how the Holy Spirit filled him as a teenager

Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman
State Representative Melissa Hortman
Senator John Hoffman and State Representative Melissa Hortman



Red Lion Group has since deleted its website and LinkedIn pages, but Boelter's LinkedIn said he started at the company in December 2021.

He also worked with Minnesota Africans United, a statewide organization working with African immigrants in the state.

Two years ago, Boelter announced ago that he was in the country with his company, working on 'private business projects.'

He claimed to have business ventures in a host of industries including fishing, farming, media, security, and motorcycle-taxis all within the Democratic Republic of Congo.

'We're partnering with 400 farmers who are ready to go on a farming project… we're doing a fishing project that works with like 500 fishermans…that's off the coast of Rwanda,' Boelter stated in an online video.

'Another one that we're looking at doing is a totally women led motorcycle-taxi business, where all the operators are women, and the leadership is women, so we're excited to get that off the ground,' Boelter explained in his pitch.

'I would like to get 1,000 female motorcycle-taxis running in the near future but we need some sponsors to invest in that,' he went on.

In a video from August 2022, Boelter made a pitch for business in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Boelter worked alongside Minnesota Africans United and Global Minnesota in partnership with the DRC American Chamber of Commerce

In a video from August 2022, Boelter made a pitch for business in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Boelter worked alongside Minnesota Africans United and Global Minnesota in partnership with the DRC American Chamber of Commerce

About one month ago Boelter updated his LinkedIn to say he had returned to the US and was looking for work in the food industry on the corporate side.

'I'm looking for roles in Texas, Minnesota, Florida, and Washington DC-Baltimore area ideally, but would look at other locations if I felt it was a good fit,' he wrote.

Boelter also has armed security experience in the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe, and North America through the Praetorian Guard Security Services, a biography about him on the site said.

'He brings a great security aspect forged by both many on the ground experiences combined with training by both private security firms and by people in the US Military,' it reads.

'Vance has focused all this experience to make sure Praetorian Guard Security Services covers the needs you have to keep your family and property safe.'

He had previously worked at 7-Eleven and Geencore as a general manager, a system manager at Del Monte Foods, and a operational leader at Johnsonville Sausage, according to his LinkedIn.

The footage shows Boelter delivering an emotionally charged sermon to a small congregation

The footage shows Boelter delivering an emotionally charged sermon to a small congregation

Boelter can be seen enjoying the February 2023 church service

Boelter can be seen enjoying the February 2023 church service

At ones stage the congregation can be seen getting up and awkwardly dancing around

At ones stage the congregation can be seen getting up and awkwardly dancing around

His LinkedIn also revealed his deep connections to politics, as he asked his followers to vote ahead of the 2020 election.

Boelter, a husband and father-of-five, holds degrees in international relations, management, and leadership for the advancement of learning and service from various Minnesota and Wisconsin universities.

The FBI has offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to Boelter's arrest, and authorities have described him as armed, dangerous, and potentially targeting more lawmakers.

The footage shows Boelter delivering an emotionally charged sermon to a small congregation.

He can be heard preaching about repentance, God's plan, and the power of faith as the ultimate equalizer between rich and poor.

At one point, he describes his family as a divine gift and says, 'God has a plan for each of us... and no one can take you out of it - only you can walk away.'

The message is intensely spiritual while also laced with a level of determination that authorities now fear may have spiraled into extremist belief.

Law enforcement sources say Boelter left behind 'No Kings' flyers and written manifestos naming Hortman, Hoffman, and other elected officials.

Though officials have not publicly stated a motive, one source said that Boelter's writings expressed rage toward pro-choice lawmakers and contained elements of anti-government ideology.

Boelter is a former political appointee who served on Minnesota's workforce development board - the same one as Senator Hoffman, though it's unclear how well the two men knew each other.

Vance Luther Boelter, 57, was named as the suspect for the death of Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and the assassination attempt of Senator John Hoffman

Vance Luther Boelter, 57, was named as the suspect for the death of Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and the assassination attempt of Senator John Hoffman

Boelter has armed security experience and a history of public service
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Boelter has armed security experience and a history of public service

He also ran a private security firm with his wife, Praetorian Guard Security Services, which promoted armed event security and featured imagery of tactical gear and patrol vehicles resembling police cruisers.

Police say Boelter used that look to his advantage. After allegedly shooting the Hoffmans around 2am, officers responded to the second scene at Hortman's house and found Boelter outside, dressed as a law enforcement officer and standing next to a police-style vehicle.

When they approached, he opened fire and escaped on foot during the exchange.

Inside his vehicle, investigators recovered multiple AK-style rifles. Authorities say he is still believed to be armed with a pistol.

Governor Tim Walz called the killings 'a politically motivated assassination' and warned of broader threats against public officials in a nation increasingly beset by political violence.

'We must all, in Minnesota and across the country, stand against all forms of political violence,' Walz said at a press conference earlier in the day as he ordered flags to fly at half-staff in Hortman's honor.

The former House Speaker, 55, was a central figure in Minnesota politics, known for her support of expanded abortion access and her role in a high-profile standoff with Republicans earlier this year.

Her husband, Mark Hortman, died later at the hospital. Autopsies show both died from multiple gunshot wounds.

Hoffman, 60, remains in critical but stable condition after surgery. Walz said he is 'cautiously optimistic' about the senator's recovery.

Bullet holes mark the front door of the house of Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife who were shot earlier in the day on Saturday in Champlin, Minnesota

Bullet holes mark the front door of the house of Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife who were shot earlier in the day on Saturday in Champlin, Minnesota

Cops have locked down a three-mile area around the shootings amid the search for the gunman, who police say remains at large

Cops have locked down a three-mile area around the shootings amid the search for the gunman, who police say remains at large

Authorities shared an image on social media showing flyers for the 'NO KINGS' rallies planned to coincide with Donald Trump's birthday parade, which they said they found in a vehicle believed to be linked to the shootings

Authorities shared an image on social media showing flyers for the 'NO KINGS' rallies planned to coincide with Donald Trump's birthday parade, which they said they found in a vehicle believed to be linked to the shootings

Late on Saturday afternoon, officials released new images of the suspect allegedly wearing a Halloween-style mask during the shootings

Late on Saturday afternoon, officials released new images of the suspect allegedly wearing a Halloween-style mask during the shootings



Boelter is a former appointee of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (center)
Boelter is a former appointee of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (center)

The attacks prompted a sweeping security response across the Twin Cities, including the cancellation of several anti-Trump 'No Kings' demonstrations that Boelter may have been monitoring.

State Patrol Col. Christina Bogojevic said the suspect's car contained flyers from the group and writings that mentioned potential future targets.

Boelter reportedly texted friends just before the shootings, writing cryptically: 'I've made some choices... I'm going to be gone for a while. May be dead shortly. I just want to let you know I love you guys and I wish it hadn't gone this way.'

As the FBI, state police, and local law enforcement fan out in search of him, residents remain shaken by the attacks.

'This is crazy - someone going after representatives?' said Douglas Thompson, a Brooklyn Park resident. 'This is wrong. I'm hoping they'll catch him.'

Daman ran his own business for quite a while and did quite well for himself.

No immigration changes under way for farm, hospitality workers, Washington Post reports
Reuters
Fri, June 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM EDT3 min read



U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Joint Base Andrews
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -There are no policy changes under way to exempt farm, hotel and other leisure workers from Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, the Washington Post reported on Friday, a day after the U.S. president vowed to issue an order for such workers.

Trump's comments on Thursday were aimed at soothing industry leaders, but there will be no changes to current deportations, according to the report, which cited three people with knowledge of the administration’s immigration policies.

Representatives for the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the report, which comes amid demonstrations protesting Trump's immigration raids.


Trump's border czar Tom Homan told the Washington Post that he had not discussed any changes for such workers with Trump and has not been involved in any policy plans to address them.

Farm and hotel industries rely heavily on migrant labor, and farmers were strong supporters of Trump's 2024 re-election bid.

While Trump is carrying out his campaign promise to deport immigrants in the country illegally, protesters and some Trump supporters have questioned the targeting of those who are not convicted criminals, including in places of employment.

On Thursday, Trump acknowledged the impact of his immigration policies on some sectors and said he would issue a related order "soon," giving no details.

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"Our farmers are being hurt badly and we're going to have to do something about that... We're going to have an order on that pretty soon," he said at the White House.

He added that it would also address the hotels sector, which would include the Trump Organization, Trump's private business that has said it is being run by his adult sons.

"Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace," he wrote on his social media platform before his Thursday remarks. "Changes are coming!"

U.S. farm industry groups have long sought to be spared from mass deportations, which could upend a food supply chain dependent on immigrants, and welcomed his comments.



Major hotel companies and casino operators did not return Reuters' requests for comment.



Trump Is Calling Handcuffed Senator Vile Racial Slur: Author
The Daily Beast

Trump ordered to return control of National Guard troops to Gavin Newsom after ‘illegal’ order over LA protests
The Independent
Trump did not say what steps he would order or when they would come.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told CNBC on Thursday that Trump was reviewing all possibilities but that Congress would also have to act, pointing to the H-2A visa program that allows employers to hire temporary or seasonal labor.

An immigration raid of an Omaha, Nebraska, meat-packing plant on Tuesday forced the company to operate with reduced staffing and caused concern among traders and analysts about how such raids could disrupt U.S. food production.


The United Farm Workers and California's Democratic Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff this week called for a stop to immigration enforcement actions targeting farmworkers after media reports of Tuesday raids at California farms.

In April, Trump suggested farmers could petition to keep some workers if the migrants left the country and then returned with legal status.

Is that we are reduced to? Talking about God and football?

Add in guns and you’ll have the three most important things in Texas.

I'd say we're closer to being in agreement about this than we are many things. I'm still not sure how "deadly" a brick is against an officer in full riot gear but.....

It won't stop the uninformed from believing it was a plot by Biden and Obama!

There is far too much happening too fast for me to keep up with all of it. But there are some factual things which we should all know at this point.

There was a deal in place to control Iran from enriching uranium reached in 2015 by the Obama administration which placed restrictions on Iran's nuclear activities, such as the number of centrifuges and uranium enrichment levels, and allowed for international inspections. In return, Iran received sanctions relief in areas like trade, technology, finance, and energy.

Trump came along and blew that deal up in 2018. At that point Iran began enriching uranium at a much faster pace and at higher levels. They were no longer under that agreement and no longer had to undergo the inspections that were taking place under the Obama deal.

Fast forward to 2025. The absolute failure and results of trump canceling that deal were evident. Evident to the point that Israel had become very nervous about the rapid advancement of Iran's nuclear program. Their uranium enrichment had reached levels almost rich enough to make weapons grade nukes. So trump rushes in to try and fix what he had broken by attempting to reach an new deal with Iran to try and prevent a war his own actions in 2018 was about to cause.

In the middle of those negotiations with Iran, in which trump "claimed" was close to reaching a deal, Israel decided to attack Iran. I'm not sure why Israel couldn't have waited for at least a short time to see if another nuclear deal could be reached rather than attack.

We are in a very precarious situation now in the middle east. I think this could all have been avoided if the original nuclear deal made with Iran had been kept in place. Sometimes people create messes that they find in the end it's too late to fix. These are the results.

This is how you cut waste and fraud. You find it and stop it. You don't just scrub an entire department, starve children around the globe and deny them basic vaccines and then later go "We found this guy!"

That's the difference. There are bad apples everywhere. Even in police and fire departments. In the military. Nobody is suggesting we shut down entire police departments because there are some bad cops in that department. None of that would make any sense.

I can't think of a single person that does not want to see criminal behavior being rooted out of government. I can think of people who either can't see it, don't want to see it or refuse to see it when they don't want to.

My theory is if I can't log on, I come back later. If I can log on, obviously the administrator discovered the problem and took the necessary steps to correct the problem.

No, they are sent to a prison and other detention facilities. Where the heck have you been.

Thanks, Nick. Inspirational, a hero, role model for hard work and character. Thanks for the thrills. Always be a Brown to me. Always.

I don't know about being a wing nut but certainly a depraved distributor of child sexual abuse porn......

SC Rep. RJ May facing 10 counts of child sex charges

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WSPA) – South Carolina Representative Robert John “RJ” May has been arrested for allegedly committing child sex crimes.

A federal grand jury in Greenville returned a 10-count indictment against the 38-year-old, of West Columbia, for distributing child sexual abuse material.

May has represented House District 88 in Lexington County since 2021.

He was reelected in November after facing no opposition in the primary or general election.

According to court documents and statements made in court, in April 2024, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a cyber-tip from the social messaging app Kik. Kik flagged several videos from the username “joebidennnn69” as containing child sexual abuse.

Further into the investigation, authorities connected the account to the home IP address and mobile device of May.

Investigators also identified at least 10 videos depicting child sexual abuse that were shared from the account.

May faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison with a minimum of five years, a fine of $250,000, and a term of at least five years of supervised release to follow any term of imprisonment, according to officials.

https://www.wsav.com/news/sc-rep-rj-may-facing-10-counts-of-child-sex-charges/

It's not like a sex trafficking ring in the basement of a pizza place that has no basement but still.....

It seems there is a possibility that fats nixon birthday parade might get called off now-cause it might rain.

Don't want to get those bone spurs wet

That is some kind of test in courage.

Amazing that you have come through that. Major props for remaining positive.

And the Top 7 being all NBA teams is interesting. I would have guessed more NFL teams in the Top 10 mix.

Right verses wrong makes more sense to me. But on many issues what people consider right verses wrong are based on their personal values, religious beliefs and their own standard of moral behaviour. In such instances as those it's not as cut and dry.

I'll give you an example. Many felony crimes have a statute of limitations. A period of time which once it passes you can no longer be convicted of that crime. Now that means you were, let's just use your example "wrong" by the deed you committed. Yet our justice system only allows a certain time period for you to be tried for that crime.

So would it be "right or wrong" to treat illegal immigrants the same way? And I think it would even be better if certain stipulations were applied. They would have to have committed no felony crimes. They would have to be working and paying taxes.

I mean if one uses how our court system works as of now, why should immigrants not have the same ability to the statute of limitations for committing a far less serious offense?

So you see, what's right and what's wrong can be very subjective.

I obviously find Mitch to be a pretty awful human being, and a big reason for our current downward spiral as a country, but he is quite deft at what he does. Petey was left struggling after this one...

There was a lot more said after this too that I wish this Tweet captured. Hegseth eventually conceded that China and its leadership would prefer Russia to win in the Ukrainian conflict.

Trump tariffs live updates: US-China trade framework set as Trump says deal 'done'

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live...t-as-trump-says-deal-done-200619040.html

The issue is that almost half of families in America live paycheck to paycheck. It's not that they wouldn't prefer to buy American goods. It's that in some cases such things as toys and clothing are by and large no longer available but that wages have not kept up with costs to the point they can't afford to purchase them. They don't have enough money to put it where their mouth is.

RIP Sly.

Good band for sure. I really liked the way Larry Graham played the bass. Vary innovative. He would slap the strings...way cool sound.

Gold, Sword, Juno and Utah all went “better” (hate to use that word) than Omaha, in large part due to the bombing that had been done beforehand. There was a lot of cloud cover. Some of the pilots dipped below the clouds which put them in harm’s way but made it easier for them to see and hit their targets (German fortifications). The pilots flying over Omaha stayed above the clouds. They were safer but missed a lot of their targets leaving the guys on the ground more exposed to better, in-tact defenses when the Germans rolled in.

I was at Omaha Beach last summer with my family a week after the 80th. I highly recommend it to anyone. A lot of the trenches and pill boxes are still there and you can walk through them. I would describe the area as “deafeningly serene.”