Editor’s note: This article and headline have been updated with the latest legal proceedings in the case.
A North Dakota man has been charged with vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a deadly accident after striking and killing a teenager in what prosecutors are calling a politically motivated attack.
Authorities claim 41-year-old Shannon Brandt struck and killed 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson at a street dance in McHenry, North Dakota.
Ellingson had called his mother to come to his aid as Brandt was chasing him after the street dance had ended.
Court papers, according to the Grand Forks Herald, indicate the suspect was the one who alerted authorities through a 911 call that he had struck the teenager.
The Herald reports that Brandt claimed Ellingson “was part of a Republican extremist group and was calling people to come get Brandt after a political argument.”
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North Dakota Teenager Killed As Suspect Labels Him a Republican Extremist
Details of the confrontation are still being sorted out, as authorities indicate Brandt knew the North Dakota teenager’s mother and was drunk at the time of the incident.
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“We do not know of any witnesses. We are still making attempts to interview potential witnesses from the street dance, people that were present prior to the crash happening,” North Dakota Highway Patrol Capt. Bryan Niewind told reporters.
But Brandt’s own 911 call allegedly defines the victim as a “Republican extremist.”
The court papers, according to the Herald, indicate it was a “politically motivated attack.”
Cayler Ellingson was murdered by a left-wing extremist in North Dakota
He was run over for being a Republican pic.twitter.com/ss39I1YzYj
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) September 20, 2022
Brandt is set to appear in court on October 11th and would face a minimum of 10 years in prison because of a DUI on his record, with the charges possibly netting him a 20-year sentence.
Hey Joe Biden, words have consequences:
“claiming the teen was part of a Republican extremist group” https://t.co/SRP0SUvaaC
— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) September 20, 2022
***UPDATE: Suspect Shannon Brandt has already been freed from jail, despite admitting to running over Ellingson with his vehicle. Fox reports that Brandt posted a $50,000 bond and was released from Stutsman County Jail.
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Biden Hammers Republican Extremists
While there is no defined outside link with the case of the North Dakota teenager being killed by someone accusing them of being part of a “Republican extremist group,” the incident comes amidst divisive rhetoric from a White House that has repeatedly cast Republicans in the same light.
President Biden delivered a speech earlier this month in which he vilified “MAGA Republicans” as extremists and a “threat to this country” while he spoke from a set bathed in blood red lighting, in front of a backdrop of Marines.
“Too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal. Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” President Biden says. pic.twitter.com/J8De3JKJgr
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 2, 2022
He used similar phrasing at a fundraiser for Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer just days later.
“Extreme Republicans don’t just threaten our personal rights and economic security, they embrace political violence,” Biden said.
The Political Insider’s Becky Noble reported his ‘MAGA extremists’ speech backfired with new polling indicating Americans are more concerned about what is happening to the country due to left-wing socialists.
Brandt, however, was clearly more concerned with the Republican threat, according to court documents, and the suggestion that the North Dakota teenager was calling people to help engage in political violence.
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Well, JoeBama declared open season on MAGA people. Here is the result.
He should not have been granted bail. This was a brutal murder for political reasons, nothing more. Unless we nip this garbage in the bud right here and now, it’s only going to get worse.
This is incredibly sad. Even if the young man was calling friends to help him, the adult could have gotten in his car and driven away. This is not merely vehicular homicide and DUI, this is at least second degree murder.
Who the h…..l would even set a bond for this creature?????? It has to be a “woke” judge who believes this was acceptable and in this case, I wonder if the color of the victim would have even made a difference. The victim cannot speak so the KILLERs word is taken for truth. This is so twisted. I hope the man has children and can look them in the eye and try to justify this to them. Obviously, he is raising inbreds and is probably one himself. I’m guessing his half-sister is his wife and his 2nd cousin is his father. Wake up people and quit sitting by while the demons allow this to happen and please pray for the family of the young man.
This is what the demons do and have always done. Why is anybody surprised? This is so sad for the family of this young man but the news will not report it because OMG he’s white and unimportant in their narrative of hate because this is the result of those words. They need to own this but they won’t because they do not have the guts or gonads for it.
Shame about the young guy, another case of dems. doing what they always sayTrump, will do. what a bunch of nutcases!!!
So are they saying that another ” Peaceful ” Democrat did this, hmm first it’s mass shooting by loyal Democrats, now it’s running over anyone that disagrees with their agenda, with their Cars, I was going to suggest they start taking away people’s deadly cars, but Biden has already made that command.
So the maximum this guy will get is 20 years for purposely killing a kid still wearing braces on his teeth just for being a Republican? I hope they throw away the key!
I hope his family sues Biden and Feddermann into non-existence
Imagine if the political views of aggressor and victim were reversed:
Jan. 6 Committee holds emergency session. 24/7 MSM coverage!
You can always tell what Democrats are up to. They are upon on their high-horse, throwing a fit of moral outrage, pointing their finger in YOUR face, and accusing YOU of doing EXACTLY what they themselves are actually doing. Case in point…the Democrats are having a hissy-fit accusing the MAGA Republicans of committing violence. But it is the radical/Democrats who are killing Trump supporters, trashing prolife pregnancy clinics, sending assassins after Supreme Court Justices, and throwing riots that do four billion dollars’ worth of damage. They project their own actions on us.
thanks to Joe’sdark speech
Charge the driver and Biden with vehicular manslaughter and throw both of them in jail for say 25 years. Biden is and has always been a loose cannon and tries to act like a tough punk,. His rhetoric will continue to sink his party of losers and will cause more atrocities like this one.