This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
In the wake of the Minnesota shootings that left a former lawmaker and her husband dead as well as two others injured, former Minnesota Vikings and University of Minnesota football player Jack Brewer is hammering Gov. Tim Walz and other Democrats for allowing the state to become "the capital of chaos in America."
"We need to start calling this what it is. These people have lost their minds," Brewer told Fox News Digital.
"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."
Brewer is now urging a "return to masculinity."
"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 said.
"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. 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."
Shooting suspect Vance Luther Boelter, 57, was captured hiding Sunday evening in a rural part of Sibley County, Minnesota.
Boelter was reportedly appointed by Gov. Mark Dayton in 2016 to to the state's Workforce Development Board, and then reappointed by Walz in 2019 as a private sector representative to the council, with his term ending in 2023.
Boelter allegedly masqueraded as a law-enforcement officer when he shot Sen. John Hoffman and his wife in their home Saturday, leaving the couple seriously hurt before traveling to former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman's home, where he allegedly killed her and her husband.
Gov. Walz on Saturday indicated the attack was a "politically motivated assassination," but he failed to reveal Boelter was his own appointee.
