The tragedy marked the beginning of the day in Minnesotain the north of the United States, a country in deep political divisions.
A man killed Democratic state congresswoman Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark In an attack, while the senator John Hoffmanalso Democrat, and his wife Yvette were injured in another, declared the governor of the state of Tim Walz in a broken voice, that described it as “act of selective political violence.”
“Let’s do not resolve our differences with violence or to gunpoint“Walz said.
– “Horrible violence” –
Fear a political violence It is increasing in the United States since Trump began his second mandate in the White House.
Democrats criticize the Republican President His drastic immigration policy, his attacks on teaching and the media And they have the conviction that violates the limits of the Executive Power With an ultraconservative agenda.
“Terrible,” Trump said of the attack on congressmenthat Attorney General Pam Bondi described as “horrible violence.”
Trump plans preside over a military parade with which Dream for years.
Almost 7 thousand military, some of them on horsebackmany with uniforms of different wars, 150 military vehicles, flying over about 50 aircraft, will travel part of an immense esplanade with emblematic monuments such as the Memorial Lincoln.
They will end near the White House, where Some paratroopers will deliver a flag to the commander in chief.
The parade coincides with Flag Day and officially commemorates the 250th anniversary of the Creation of the US armed forces.
The authorities expect A multitude of spectators.
Trump opponents also trust crowds in protests in almost 2,000 cities around the country that baptized “without kings” because they consider that The president behaves as if it were.
They accuse him of “authoritarianism“, To apply a policy”of multimillionaire first“And”militarization“Of democracy.
In New York, in the heart of Manhattan, Polly Shulman is outraged “for how this administration is destroying the ideals of the US Constitution“