Rosie O’Donnell apologizes after false feedback on Minneapolis church shooter

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Rosie O’Donnell, the liberal actress and comedian, apologized on social media Sunday after falsely claiming the Minneapolis Catholic church college shooter was a MAGA supporter, a Republican and a white supremacist.

Final Thursday, O’Donnell posted a video after studying concerning the attack that left two children dead and 18 others injured, 15 of them youngsters.

The comic mentioned the violence reminded her of the Columbine bloodbath in 1999, when she struggled to grasp that American college students have been capturing one another in faculties.

Relating to the Minneapolis capturing, O’Donnell identified it befell inside a Catholic college and added: "What are you aware? It was a white man, Republican, MAGA individual. What are you aware? White supremacists."

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By Sunday, O’Donnell walked back her comments , admitting she was fallacious concerning the shooter’s id.

"I knew a number of you have been very upset concerning the video I made earlier than I went away for a couple of days," she mentioned in a brand new video, including that she didn't have time to learn by means of the feedback till Sunday. "You're proper. I didn't do my due diligence earlier than I made that emotional assertion, and I mentioned issues concerning the shooter that have been incorrect.

"I assumed, like most shooters, they adopted a typical MO and had commonplace, you recognize, emotions of… you recognize, NRA-loving type of gun folks," O’Donnell continued. "Anyway, the reality is I tousled, and while you mess up, you fess up. I’m sorry. That is my apology video and I hope it’s sufficient."

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Her apology drew sharp criticism on-line. One consumer known as it "probably the most unapologetic apology ever." One other wrote, "She’s not sorry, she nonetheless means precisely what she mentioned." A 3rd mentioned she was "making an attempt to avoid wasting face, as a result of she opened her mouth and was so fallacious."

Within the feedback, O’Donnell replied to at least one critic, writing, "I used to be fallacious - and I apologize - what extra do [you] need?"

Others mentioned the misstep mirrored an even bigger drawback. "It’s good that you simply apologized, however that is what's maintaining this nation so divided," one individual wrote. "A lot mistruths being unfold by each side. Individuals must truth examine each single political factor that they see as a result of nearly all of it's a lie."

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O’Donnell’s remarks got here lower than every week after the gunman opened hearth throughout a Mass at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, the place college students from the connected college have been gathered.

The gunfire shattered stained-glass and pew-side home windows as college students and parishioners ducked for canopy.

FBI Director Kash Patel mentioned Thursday the "barbaric" assault gave the impression to be an act of home terrorism "motivated by a hate-filled ideology."

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Patel mentioned the shooter’s manifesto and writings on firearms expressed anti-Catholic and anti-religious themes, together with violent antisemitic messages. Amongst them have been phrases similar to "Israel should fall" and "Free Palestine," alongside Holocaust-related slurs.