Two children, ages 8 and 10, were killed as they sat in the pews at the Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The shooter, who was armed with a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol, was found dead in the rear of the building.
00:00:50.640We are breaking into coverage because we have what we have confirmed is an active shooter situation happening in Minneapolis.
00:00:57.920Earlier today, just before 8.30 a.m., our city experienced an unthinkable tragedy.
00:01:06.060Minneapolis police officers responded to a report of a shooting at a mass that was happening at the Annunciation Roman Catholic Church on the block behind me.
00:01:16.620This worship service was marking the first week of school for children that are attending the Annunciation Catholic School.
00:01:27.880During the mass, a gunman approached on the outside, on the side of the building, and began firing a rifle through the church windows.
00:01:37.060Towards the children sitting in the pews at the mass, shooting through the windows, he struck children and worshipers that were inside the building.
00:01:48.780The shooter was armed with a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol.
00:01:54.480Two young children, ages 8 and 10, were killed where they sat in the pews.
00:02:05.90017 other people were injured, 14 of them being children.
00:02:12.600Two of those children are in critical condition.
00:02:15.440As you can see, more families taking their children home now after what has been just a horrific morning for them at Annunciation Catholic School.
00:02:23.600Spoke to a parent who was sitting in a back pew when mass started at 8.15 local time.
00:02:30.100A shooter opening fire outside the building with a semi-automatic weapon.
00:02:35.880The outlet also quotes the parent as saying this, quote,
00:02:39.900He just pepper sprayed through the stained glass windows into the building.
00:02:47.400The coward who fired these shots ultimately took his own life in the rear of the church.
00:02:52.040In the name of the Father, and of the Holy Spirit, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
00:03:09.040Father Nostrum, quies in celis, santificeter nomen tuam, advenia regnam tuam, fiet volantas tua, sicut in celo et in terra.
00:03:22.000Panam nostrum, quotidianam do nobis hodie, dimite nobis debita nostra, sicut nos dimitibus debitoribus nostris,
00:03:30.040et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos amalo, sed libera nos amalo, sed libera nos amalo. Amen.
00:03:41.980In the name of the Father, and of the Spirit, and of the Spirit, and of the Spirit, and of the Spirit, and of the Spirit, and of the Spirit. Amen.
00:03:46.820Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily.
00:03:50.600We're coming to you live from West Virginia right now. I'm filling in for Tim Poole this week.
00:03:57.920And today is August 27th, 2025, Anno Domini.
00:04:03.900There was a massacre in Minneapolis just hours ago as Catholic children attended their very first school mass,
00:04:14.640walking into the pews, sitting down with their teachers, sitting down with their school administrators,
00:07:52.700But right now, we're here at Human Events Daily.
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00:09:45.880But it's absolutely horrific to see these little faces and their parents, what unfolded this morning.
00:09:54.020We are hearing quite a bit more now about who is responsible, this 23-year-old who killed himself in the parking lot of Annunciation Catholic school after opening fire during morning mass.
00:10:08.160This is how the kids start their day at Annunciation.
00:10:11.420The school day or the school year, I should say, just started on Monday.
00:10:14.500It's a kindergarten through eighth grade school, but they have some preschool programs there as well.
00:10:19.860But it's Robin Westman who's been identified as the shooting suspect.
00:10:27.160And Robin was Robert, interestingly enough, a few years ago.
00:10:31.700From what we can find online with court records, it looks to be that Robert was 16 or 17 at the time that his family petitioned the court to have his name changed legally to Robin.
00:10:47.020So that took place when he was 16 or 17-year-old, just by looking at his birth date.
00:10:56.460But also, his mom appears to have worked at Annunciation.
00:11:02.180It appears she retired several years ago, back in 2021.
00:11:05.960So there is some sort of connection to this school.
00:11:09.060I will say that his manifesto, we viewed that as really quite troubling.
00:12:05.620But is there any information linking the shooter at this point to this school, to this community, to this parish?
00:12:13.220Do we know yet if they were a former student, if he was a former student, or, you know, had someone, you know, maybe family member, a friend that was connected to it?
00:12:20.560Yeah, as I said, the mother of Robin, or Robert, seems to have worked at the school.
00:12:30.460Annunciation announced on Facebook that she was retiring a few years ago, and that's something that's out there online.
00:12:38.140I don't know how long she worked there.
00:12:40.440Perhaps I'm guessing, you know, if she was a teacher at that school, that this Robert would have attended the school as well.
00:12:46.960In this manifesto, it does appear that he has a drawing of the, you know, of the actual area that where he opened fire, that the church pews are all lined up.
00:12:59.100He has the cross in the front and whatnot in the notepad linked to him online.
00:13:04.640Really pretty horrible to watch, but left quite an extensive online footprint before this horrific attack.
00:13:18.940And again, this is obviously going to raise a lot of questions as to, you know, the idea that, you know, YouTube and all of these places are, you know, this very show would get flagged immediately if I were to say something that was against the YouTube algorithm.
00:13:34.400And yet you have this manifesto being uploaded that YouTube didn't seem to have any issue with whatsoever.
00:13:39.780So certainly something that I want to look into from that perspective.
00:13:44.040Do we know if there's any criminal record associated with Westman at all?
00:13:50.840Yeah, that question was asked during this morning's press conference and the police chief of Minneapolis was there along with the mayor of Minneapolis.
00:14:01.780And they said, no, that there appeared to be no criminal history.
00:14:06.140He, you know, we've heard of this barrage of gunfire that that took place and was it sounds like he was able to get off rifle shots, also from a shotgun and a pistol in the time that this all transpired and then took several steps back and killed himself in the parking lot.
00:14:27.480Police did say they were able to get there quickly to start rendering aid.
00:14:31.560And we know that these these children and again, two adults are treated being treated at this time as well.
00:14:37.260We're taken to a children's hospital in Minneapolis and also a Hennepin County health care where they have the the level one trauma center.
00:14:47.000But they're they're even saying that, you know, these other children obviously are not out of the woods.
00:14:52.980These six that are critically wounded.
00:14:54.920And it sounds pretty, pretty horrific for everyone who was on scene.
00:14:59.620And I also wanted to mention this is the fourth shooting in Minneapolis in less than 24 hours.
00:15:05.580Three people died in shootings in a matter of 13 hours.
00:15:09.040And then this horrific shooting took place this morning at a school.
00:15:12.880Another mass shooting happened just yesterday outside of, again, a Catholic high school.
00:15:18.980But police did say today that they did not think they were connected.
00:15:23.240But you have a depleted police force in Minneapolis.
00:15:26.880And I talked to a few officers yesterday.
00:15:32.440One said this was the darkest 24 hours in Minneapolis history as he sees it.
00:15:38.620So when you tell me more about that depleted police force, obviously, this is something that you've written and reported on quite extensively.
00:15:48.460But what is the status of this police force as as it stands today?
00:15:51.880Here we are five years after after George Floyd and when and everything that happened happened that summer.
00:16:01.420In the city, there were nearly 900 police officers the beginning of May of 2020.
00:16:06.000There was actually a push by Mayor Jacob Fry at the time, which is interesting now, to to hire hundreds more.
00:16:13.000And the police chief back then quickly, they determined that police, of course, had to be the bad guys after George Floyd and made quite a few decisions leading to this depleted force.
00:16:25.780So now I've been told, and this is just kind of a recent update, that it's about 350 officers who now work the streets in Minneapolis.
00:16:34.240They have they have quite a few, you know, administrators and things of that nature.
00:16:40.260But those are street cops, people who are actually out there.
00:16:48.300And, you know, when you when you hear those numbers in such a short amount of time, crime is not down.
00:16:53.040That is what we're told consistently by our local media and the mayor of Minneapolis.
00:16:58.780And just as what has transpired here in the last 24 hours, I think proves that.
00:17:04.780Well, and and and exactly. And whether or not these cases were connected, which is something I certainly hope is going to be investigated.
00:17:13.580And we're going to have a official from the Department of Justice joining us here soon.
00:17:18.120And that'll be a question that I ask as well. But, you know, when it comes down to it, when you're looking at your you're obviously you're in Minnesota, you're you're a mom in Minnesota, too.
00:17:26.340You've got kids. Is this something where when the President Trump says that we'd like to see the National Guard augment to these big cities?
00:17:35.480Is this something where you would see that could help backfill this gap that's going on that's now being exploited by these heinous criminals?
00:17:41.060I can't tell you, Jack, how many times people are pleading to us over at Alpha News, like, you know, hey, do you know anybody?
00:17:49.460You know, can can you help bring the feds here?
00:17:54.360You know, this cry for help that continues in Minneapolis.
00:17:57.460But you really have you know, you have a city council, you have a mayor, it's it's all part of this anti police rhetoric that we see continue these activist groups who have, you know, since become some sort of, you know, security force in Minneapolis.
00:18:12.880It's absolutely wild what they've allowed to happen to really this once very safe and beautiful city, Minnesota's largest city that that so many people actually now even refused to go into and will.
00:18:30.700At all costs and it and it happened so quickly, Liz, Colin, obviously, you're going to be reporting on this extensively throughout the day.
00:18:38.960Alpha News, where can people follow you directly?
00:18:40.960Yeah, Alpha News, MN, we are at X on X there reporting all of this in real time and Liz Colin also on X, but alpha news.org.
00:18:54.540We have many stories covering all the angles here after this just absolutely horrific morning in Minnesota.
00:19:00.460It is. And absolutely. Our prayers are with you and all the people affected by this in in the community.
00:19:07.480We'll be right back. Jack Posobiec. We have Harmeet Dillon from the DOJ coming up next.
00:19:28.780It of course makes me think about guns and all the work we've done to ban these automatic rifles and to do something when it comes to the background checks and everything.
00:19:45.860And we keep getting thwarted. We were able to pass a limited measure on a bipartisan basis, but not enough to stop something like this.
00:19:55.100And it just makes you think about that as well without knowing the details about how we got that gun, if the gun was legal, what kind of gun it was.
00:20:02.620But it was clearly one of these automatic rifles to be able to shoot that many kids so fast.
00:20:10.420Earlier this year, of course, I think about the attacker who shot two Minnesota state lawmakers in their homes.
00:20:15.700How many millions of people in the United States right now that are taking mind-altering substances prescribed by their doctor and then sent out on their way that have firearms at home, they can go and purchase a firearm, et cetera, et cetera.
00:20:35.100But I'm telling you, I'm begging you to understand that if we live in a country where it's SSRIs on demand, just about, and those very same people have access to firearms, SSRIs, probituates, et cetera, and those same people are able to access firearms the same way, then you're going to have more problems.
00:20:56.680Don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now.
00:21:07.300These are kids that should be learning with their friends.
00:21:12.520They should be playing on the playground.
00:21:15.520They should be able to go to school or church in peace without the fear or risk of violence, and their parents should have the same kind of assurance.
00:21:26.060But what we have to be clear about is don't take the bait.
00:21:30.100It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities and the attempt to go into others, the flaunting of the rule of law, the cruelness, and the unconstitutional nature of the way they're attacking our neighbors, that the press finds the need to talk about, oh, there's a division in the Democratic Party.
00:21:51.180There's a division in my damn house, and we're still married, and things are good.
00:22:35.700You can see that shot now, live shot from the White House, where the American flag, that new flag that's been put up on the lawn, I believe that's the South Lawn, is now at half-mast for the victims of this horrific massacre in Minneapolis.
00:22:52.700I want to bring on now Harmeet Dillon.
00:22:56.700She is the Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.
00:23:07.700Well, I wish we were on in better circumstances, but unfortunately, here we have yet again another instance of a religious institution, a house of worship, and in this case, tragically, a school.
00:23:37.700So I think, first of all, religion has been under attack in our country for decades.
00:23:41.700That's been part of the plan of the left.
00:23:43.700Throughout my career, I've stood up for people of faith in multiple different circumstances, and particularly during COVID, where Governor Newsom in my home state, but many other governors, too, put people of faith in a second-class citizen status, or worse, threatened to imprison people who, if they wanted to pray together.
00:23:59.700And so here you see part of that trend.
00:24:02.700You don't see a lot of that in the liberal press.
00:24:04.700But the reports of this shooter are that this person was transgender.
00:24:09.700We've seen quite a bit of that in school shootings and other people disrupting.
00:24:13.700A lot of Antifa members are transgender in cases that I've been involved in.
00:24:18.700And, you know, you've mentioned on your show the use of SSRIs, but let's not forget the use of the cross-gender hormones, cross-sex hormones that are artificially pumping young people's bodies with hormones that don't belong in their bodies and that have adverse side effects for them.
00:24:36.700And these side effects, unfortunately, are ending up killing other people as well.
00:24:40.700So I think that needs to be part of this conversation.
00:24:43.700And so it's so hypocritical to see state leaders shouting about these circumstances when they've done nothing to protect people of faith.
00:24:51.700In fact, you see mockery by online commentators on the left of people of faith, of these children who are the victims of this crime.
00:25:01.700All of us people of faith in this country, it's literally in the First Amendment.
00:25:04.700It is the reason why this country was founded, to give religious freedom to our settlers.
00:25:10.700And we need to come together as a country around faith to seek guidance and solace, but also to renew our commitment to a way of life that includes faith, respects God and respects our laws.
00:25:23.700Well, I couldn't agree more with that, Harmeet.
00:25:26.700And the thing you mentioned about these these hormones and these procedures, it's it's something that and I've brought up and it's it's certainly a debate topic regarding in and on a state by state basis.
00:25:40.700You know, we have red flag laws in some states.
00:25:43.700We certainly have 5150 procedures and policies in a variety of states where people can be called in.
00:25:49.700And one of the questions that I think does need to be asked is when it comes to firearm access.
00:25:55.700If someone is pumping their body with these types of very powerful, mind altering chemicals, what what what can that possibly mean for public safety?
00:26:07.700Well, you know, what's interesting is that I saw a case across my desk recently where a school district is actually saying to children who want to opt out of sharing their private spaces, their locker rooms and so forth with the opposite sex.
00:26:28.700They have to fill out a mental health form claiming to establish that they're mentally unstable for wanting to tell the truth that they're a girl or they're a boy and that they want their privacy.
00:26:40.700So we are actually gaslighting our children, all the adults who are calling people who are posing as the opposite sex by, you know, their so-called preferred pronouns and stuff, which thank goodness we're not doing in our government right now.
00:26:53.700We're all being forced and conditioned to lie all day, which is actually at odds with faith.
00:26:58.700And so I think people of faith are the first to push back against these lies.
00:27:43.700You're looking at a live shot of the White House lawn.
00:27:46.700That flag that I was standing under just yesterday during the cabinet meeting now at half mass because of the victims of the Minneapolis massacre.
00:27:55.700We're on with Harmeet Dillon, the assistant attorney general of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice.
00:28:00.700Harmeet, when we got cut off by the break there, you were just talking about this this tension that we have and some of the cases crossing your desk.
00:28:09.700And really the situation all revolving around protecting our children in these schools.
00:28:17.700Yes, it is religious schools and religious places of worship that do seem to be targeted, but it all.
00:28:22.700But there are many questions as well about child privacy rights, family rights.
00:28:29.700But it seems as though the if if if the federal government were going to be coming in on any of these, you'd want to err on the side of safety.
00:28:39.700So, I mean, we were talking before the break about these issues.
00:28:42.700I've actually had to go to court in California and my nonprofit is continuing to do this in other places to protect the rights of parents to say whether their children are going to be groomed by adults into believing they have a different sexuality.
00:28:54.700I mean, I'm talking about children here, not teenagers and a different sex.
00:29:01.700The United States Supreme Court and rulings going back almost a century has said that parents have the fundamental right to direct how their children are educated.
00:29:10.700And this is being usurped from children and from parents all over the country.
00:29:14.700And in the name of political correctness, you know, all these soccer moms and so forth, they want to be popular with their friends.
00:29:19.700And, you know, you ask, where are the adults protecting these children?
00:29:23.700So there are only so many lawyers like me who can go to court and and do that.
00:29:27.700So we really need more parents and grownups to stand up and say no more, no more lying, no more gaslighting, no more denying biology and reality by adults.
00:29:37.700It is. It's got to end. But, you know, on the religion front, it's not just these schools.
00:29:42.700I mean, our DOJ in the less than six months I've been in office, we have done several prosecutions involving violence at churches and other houses of worship in our country.
00:29:52.700I have had countless meetings with rabbis about graffiti and threats of violence against houses of worship in the Jewish faith.
00:30:01.700And this is a nationwide problem and other faiths as well.
00:30:05.700My faith has been under attack and their houses of worship have been shot up, too, in the Sikh faith.
00:30:12.700Perhaps you see you see Europe getting away from faith and you see a godlessness over there.
00:30:18.700We don't want that to happen in America.
00:30:20.700So I think we need to see examples like this.
00:30:22.700And everyone should stand up against the evil that is surrounding us in our culture and our society and really reaffirm our commitment to faith.
00:30:31.700Well, I think there's no question about that.
00:30:34.700And obviously the attacking people of faith is is always evil and certainly attacking young children is clearly a demonic act.
00:30:44.700It's just just a demonic act. And there's no question about that.
00:30:48.700I also wanted to commend you, by the way, because we've just seen this new announcement.
00:30:53.700This is originally what we were going to talk about today out of your office regarding race based employment practices at America's state and local agencies.
00:31:02.700In fact, we were just on with Liz Collin of of the great alpha news, and she was talking about how the Minneapolis police force has been completely decimated since the the George Floyd situation and Derek Chauvin.
00:31:16.700And that that certainly DI is something that has been practiced there, as well as many other big city police forces and led to a lot of issues.
00:31:25.700You've come out and put out this this new statement that these race based employment practices violate equal treatment under the law and local and state agencies.
00:31:37.700Well, so that today's announcement is about California and California's Air Resources Board, which is clinging to explicit DEI criteria in violation of federal law.
00:31:48.700And so we're going after them with an investigation. But stay tuned, because this is happening throughout the United States.
00:31:54.700And I'm already touching Minnesota on multiple levels. You mentioned George Floyd.
00:31:58.700We dismissed a consent decree filing by the prior administration that really sought to punish all the people of the community for the mistakes of a few.
00:32:07.700And so that's really not appropriate. But in the course of all of this work, we found that Hennepin County's prosecutor, Mary Moriarty there,
00:32:14.700which is the biggest county there in Minnesota, is engaged in explicit race based plea deals.
00:32:20.700And so if you're African-American or whatever category she has, you are under consideration for a lighter sentence than a white person doing the same crime.
00:32:30.700This is blatantly illegal and outrageous. And we are taking aim at this policy and others.
00:32:36.700Minnesota has led the way in actually suing the federal government over our attempts to ensure equal protection and equal rights for girls when it comes to the sporting situation.
00:32:49.700Title IX was actually passed to protect girls and women and having equal opportunity in sports and in education—education and in sports, I should say.
00:32:58.700And so, as you know, this administration is going very aggressively on that front.
00:33:02.700That's part of the work that we do in the Civil Rights Division.
00:33:07.700And so we're in court over their desire to force girls to be exposed to boys in their bathrooms and their locker rooms and taking their trophies.
00:33:20.700And so I find it very interesting that these politicians in that state are, you know, blaming guns, blaming the president, orange man bad, you know, the usual type of rhetoric that they resort to, when in fact they should go and look in the mirror, because they've created a toxic environment for women.
00:33:38.700They've created a toxic environment for people of faith.
00:33:40.700And they've created a situation where everyone has to lie to get ahead in their state.
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00:36:48.700And, you know, years ago we were talking about there's a war on Christianity in the world.
00:36:53.700And our society is changing and it's changing in a way that's not wholesome.
00:36:58.700And we have degeneracy and it's infecting us.
00:37:01.700And I just, my heart goes out to the families and to all those who are suffering, the injured, those who have lost their lives under this violence.
00:37:10.700And, yeah, there has to be some serious changes here.
00:37:14.700And the way we look at the science of this and the medical sanity of these people and also just compassion.
00:38:44.700Were the martyrs, the child martyrs of Minnesota today.
00:38:51.700Catholic children gunned down while attending mass.
00:38:56.700And Mayor Jacob Frye, here's a message for you.
00:39:01.700Do you seriously think we're going to let you just get away with mocking the families that are grieving while you are steps away from where children's bodies lie bloodied and still warm?