Former NBA star and Minnesota Republican U.S. Senate candidate Royce White told Newsmax that Minneapolis, Minnesota, is exemplified by the reactions from some political leaders to Wednesday’s deadly school shooting there as “the belly of the beast.”
White told “National Report” on Friday that after hearing Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey indicate he wasn’t interested in prayers after the shooting, his first response was, “Minneapolis, Minnesota, is the belly of the beast, and we hate to have to talk politics or politicize, as they say certain things when they’re as tragic as this is.”
The New York Post reported that Minnesota Bishop Robert Barron was strongly critical of Frey dismissing prayer after the church attack.
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