{"id":1055768,"date":"2025-08-27T12:48:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1055768"},"modified":"2025-08-27T12:48:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:48:46","slug":"remarks-from-dnc-chair-ken-martin-on-shooting-at-south-minneapolis-church-and-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/remarks-from-dnc-chair-ken-martin-on-shooting-at-south-minneapolis-church-and-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Remarks from DNC Chair Ken Martin on Shooting at South Minneapolis Church and School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This morning, a tragic shooting took place at Annunciation Catholic Church and School in South Minneapolis. Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin was in Minneapolis for the DNC summer meeting and addressed the public.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Remarks from Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin, as delivered:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGood morning, everyone.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBy now, many of you have heard there was a shooting this morning that took place at Annunciation Church and Catholic School in South Minneapolis, no more than 10 minutes from where we are now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt this moment, we are praying for the families, the students and the teachers at Annunciation. We are praying.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat we know is that emergency responders are on the scene. And while we wait for more details about what happened this morning, we are sending our support to all the first responders, law enforcement officers, hospital and medical workers, and everybody who is supporting the response.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is the first week of school for students at Annunciation. These families woke up this morning to celebrate milestones in their children&#8217;s lives. Milestones like the first week of kindergarten.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are heartbroken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a tragic day for our city\u2014and a tragic day for Minnesotans. On the heels of a tragic year where we already lost our dear friends Melissa and Mark Hortman. And it&#8217;s unacceptable. It is far too commonplace in our nation. It\u2019s just far too commonplace.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFolks, we need your prayers. We need your faith. And we need leadership to stop this evil.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, a tragic shooting took place at Annunciation Catholic Church and School in South Minneapolis. Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin was in Minneapolis for the DNC summer meeting and addressed the public.&nbsp; Remarks from Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin, as delivered:&nbsp; \u201cGood morning, everyone.&nbsp; \u201cBy now, many of you have heard there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Remarks from DNC Chair Ken Martin on Shooting at South Minneapolis Church and School - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/remarks-from-dnc-chair-ken-martin-on-shooting-at-south-minneapolis-church-and-school\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-27T16:48:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-27T16:48:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/remarks-from-dnc-chair-ken-martin-on-shooting-at-south-minneapolis-church-and-school\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/remarks-from-dnc-chair-ken-martin-on-shooting-at-south-minneapolis-church-and-school\/\",\"name\":\"Remarks from DNC Chair Ken Martin on Shooting at South Minneapolis Church and School - 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