Frey. Our thoughts should be with the victims, not gender orientation. Two of the wounded childen died.
MINNEAPOLIS — Mayor Jacob Frey cautioned that hatefulness against transexual people has no place in our society. At a news conference at Annunciation school, where 17 persons were shot at morning prayers by a trans woman, Frey said:
“I have heard about a whole lot of hate that’s being directed at our trans community. 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 was emotional, Instead of the shooter’s gender-identity and state of mind, Frey said, public focus should be on the child victims.
“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. 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.”