Another day brings yet another crime by an elected Democrat. This time it’s Minnesota’s State Senator who was caught red-handed committing burglary in her stepmother’s house.
On Monday (April 22), Democrat State Senator Nicole Mitchell was arrested in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, after she broke into her stepmother’s house to steal “items of sentimental value” related to her late father, including his ashes. The woman called the cops who arrested the 49-year-old Democrat.
On Tuesday, Mitchell was charged with one count of first-degree burglary and released after spending a day in jail. She told the police that she decided to break into the house because her stepmother wouldn’t give her the items of sentimental value that she wanted and had refused to talk to her.
Being caught red-handed and charged with burglary didn’t stop Democrats from defending Mitchell whose political value is defined by her being the deciding majority vote in the State Senate as Democrats lead there by only one vote. While the Republican leadership in the Senate has called on Mitchell to resign, the indicted Democrat has refused to step down. The Twin Cities Pioneer Press wrote:
In that complaint, Mitchell is alleged to have told police she entered the home through a basement window and that she knew “she did something bad.”
Adding details from the stepmother’s account of Mitchell’s illegal presence in her house, the story added:
In a 911 call transcript released by the Becker County Sheriff’s office, the caller, Mitchell’s stepmother, told police she had “tripped over” a person on the floor next to her bed, who then ran into the basement.
The Republicans in the State Senate filed an ethics complaint against Mitchell and tried to expedite the process with the aim to unseat Mitchell, which otherwise can take up to a month to start and would require the vote of a two-third majority of the Senate. The move to expedite the process failed because of the vote tie with 33 votes along party lines on each side. Democrats argued that Mitchell is entitled to due process and should be presumed innocent until found guilty.
Meanwhile conservatives on social media mocked the indicted Democrat for hypocrisy. Popular Twitter/X account Libs of TikTok reminded that Mitchell is the one who recently underscored “building safer communities.”
A conservative MAGA account on Gettr posted Mitchell’s mugshot and called her a Thief.
https://gettr.com/post/p348uqf5a40
Mitchell, while serving her first term in Senate, is also a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard where she is commanding a weather unit. If convicted on the felony charge, Mitchell faces a minimum of six months and a maximum of 20 years in prison.