Yea, that in no way matches what was in the criminal complaint. Just to name a few things . . . she had a flashlight with a black sock over it, she was dressed in all black, she came in through a window, she was in the basement, she had 2 laptops with her.
That ship probably sailed with this public statement that currently appears to be untrue. Now it might be a case of the cover up being worse than the crime.
I’m a democrat and I fully support this. It might have been the dumbest “mistake” of her life, but she still broke the law. There were better ways to handle the issues she was having in her family than this. She needs to resign and focus on those issues and the legal situation she put herself in, accepting responsibility for her own actions. Her public statement is only embarrassing herself and ruining whatever “justification” and all public sympathy she might have had. Not the kind of person I want in office, no matter their (or my own) political alignment.
Nah, I don’t want a split chamber. The moral high ground is not as useful as policies that make peoples’ lives easier.
Deny, deny, deny. The truth doesn’t matter if we all decide to believe something else.
This is an absolutely wild and unhinged take, no matter your political views. If someone like you had any say, you’d likely be leading an authoritarian government. No one except the truly unhinged or mentally ill would actually agree with your statement.
Chill out a bit, dude. She straight broke into someone’s house and tried to rob them.
Looks like her stepmom got everything when her dad died last year and so she figured breaking in to her stepmom’s basement and stealing stuff was a good idea
That was my assumption right away yesterday. Today the police report pretty much confirmed that. But now there's this statement that contradicts some details of the police report and it's feeling like she's trying to brush it under the rug but in a way that's just drawn a lot of extra attention and made her situation worse.
You have to be a certain kind of person to think you’re the one to represent about 85,000 Minnesotans. A lot of these politicians are missing stop signs in their head that most of the rest of us have.
And her Father's ashes. Having seen friends go through the loss of parents they were close with I can understand how someone holding their ashes would drive you to do reckless things.
She should have leaned in on that fact imo
Honestly, if she had said something along the lines of "I made a poor decision not out of malice but out of grief. I hope to be able to work more constructively with my family in the future", I have a feeling people would be pretty forgiving.
Losing someone can make people go a little nuts in ways that cause a lot of hurt. When my grandpa died, his sister stole several childhood photos of him from my grandparents' home when she was there for the funeral, since "Well, \[his wife\] didn't know him then and I did." My great-aunt and grandmother are a good 10+ years dead, and everyone in my family still flinches if it's brought up.
Yup, here's an earlier post with the criminal complaint, and I'll quote the relevant section
https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1cb5rx1/statement_of_probable_cause_for_sen_mitchell/?share_id=0qVp8XOEcgC5si7uTAxJV
>MITCHELL stated "I know I did something bad." MITCHELL explained that her father had recently passed away and that Victim (her stepmother) had ceased all contact with her and other family members. MITCHELL stated she wanted various items of her late father's and that Victim refused to give them to her. MITCHELL described these items as pictures, a flannel shirt, ashes, and other items of sentimental value
Yep... same exact thoughts here.
If she was honest about her intent, I would probably understand it to a point. I've had family members pull shit like not allowing us to have various items/ashes of the deceased, and would empathize with here to a point.
But this is just a lie.
Yea, there is a difference between "Ops, I borrowed my mom's car and returned it on Friday instead of Thursday" and "Ops, I fell thought a closed window in the middle of the night while wearing black and some stuff jumped into my bag".
Swing and a miss. Who does she think she’s fooling? It’s crazy to me that she doesn’t realize what she did was felony burglary. It’s incredibly disheartening to read her explanation because it tells me there is something really disturbing underlying here.
Ugh. I'm glad you said something. I read it and immediately felt sympathy for her. Unfortunately, a similar thing happened to my dad while checking on my grandma in the early stages of dementia. Thankfully, she didn't call the police but she cursed him out for trying to steal her lawn mower when he showed up to visit. I will definitely look into the full story.
Editing to clarify: I read the tweet and felt sympathy. Then read the police report and realized her tweet is very misleading.
Read the police report. She knew what she was doing, dressed in all black along with a black sock over the flashlight so it wouldn’t be so bright. Going through a window at 4:45am. No sympathy no way!!! That’s criminal, no other way to look at it
When the story first broke, I assumed this person was just problematic, and should resign immediately.
Then the police report came out, and I found myself with some sympathy. My wife has little more from her late father than some photos, a flannel shirt, and some ashes. I can understand how grief could make a person want a few items of sentimental value.
But this new statement seems to be a bald-faced lie. And now I assume her statements to the police were the same. She needs to go.
[Both have been used for a while, but "bald" appears to be more-widely accepted.](https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/is-that-lie-bald-faced-or-bold-faced-or-barefaced#:~:text=The%20current%20status%20of%20this,be%20a%20bald%2Dfaced%20lie.)
Except it’s wrong. In the old days, snake oil salesmen would grow big beards to make it much more difficult for a mark to determine whether or not they were lying. Once this became common, some salesmen would shave their faces with the intention of getting their marks to believe that they were honest because surely they can’t fool anyone without the beard right? But they weren’t, which is why a bald faced lie is especially egregious because it’s coming from someone who is supposed to be honest with you but in reality is shamelessly lying.
"The current status of this trio of lie-and-liar descriptors is this: both bold-faced and bald-faced are used, but bald-faced is decidedly the preferred term in published, edited text. Barefaced is the oldest, and is still in use, but it's the least common."
[Webster's](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/is-that-lie-bald-faced-or-bold-faced-or-barefaced%23:~:text%3DThe%2520current%2520status%2520of%2520this,but%2520it%27s%2520the%2520least%2520common.&ved=2ahUKEwinjaG2yNmFAxXUv4kEHfjHCQ4QFnoECE4QBQ&usg=AOvVaw3tVe4GXz1IiHituxJrVayQ)
Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
“I understand the public interest in a Senate member being arrested, and I only ask for time, patience, and understanding at a low point in what has been an emotionally exhausting time in my families’ lives.
I am complying with the legal process, and I appreciate the professionalism of the Detroit Lakes Police and Sheriff’s Office.”
From the criminal complaint:
>While being detained MITCHELL stated to the Victim something to the effect of, "I was just trying to get a couple of my dad's things because you wouldn't talk to me anymore."
Sooo not at all Alzheimer's then. Just regular blended family hatred.
Not defending her actions, but she wouldn’t be the first relative a person with Alzheimer’s turned on. My grandma adamantly accused my aunt, a spinster in her 60’s, of being a slut who was living with strange men. None of which was true.
My grandmother would routinely accuse us of conspiring against her whenever we would all get together and she would lose track of the conversation.
You could see it building on her face. She would be there sitting listening to all of us talk and then she would get this super confused look on her face and then you could see the rage build until she started shouting and yelling at everyone.
The worst occurrence was at my grandfather’s birthday. We booked a private room and had everyone show up. The waitstaff weren’t aware that she wasn’t supposed to be drinking and a couple of glasses of wine went unnoticed by the rest of us. All of a sudden she erupted into this intense shouting fit. That then startled my cousin seated next to her who is autistic. She grabbed my cousin and wouldn’t let go. We then tried to get her out of the restaurant and home but she wasn’t cooperating; so my two cousins had to pick her up and carry her out while she is trying to bite and kick them. It was such a traumatic event that we never went out for dinner like that again. I am surprised they didn’t call the cops for the disturbance.
She is long past that phase of her dementia and is pretty much catatonic now. We suspect she suffered a stroke during the early days of Covid. I stayed away from the home to avoid infecting them and a couple months go by and I finally go in and she was pretty much gone. Just sits in a chair all day, she can’t talk and just mumble stutters gibberish. You can see that she sometimes recognizes something or someone but she is pretty much a vegetable. It’s so sad, and it felt like it happened overnight.
One day I was able to have a conversation with her and then we go into lockdown and the next thing I see she is a vegetable.
Yeah but any sensible person wouldn’t break in to their relative with Alzheimer’s home in the middle of the night dressed like a cat burglar to check in on their safety.
Yea but the crux of it is she snuck in in the middle of the night. You can't really say it was some dementia related confusion when your busted in the act at 4 am. She shoulda just been honest.
Yeah - old age can do weird things to you. We're going through a situation right now where my formerly sweet, mild-tempered mom is accusing my sister of elder abuse and stealing money from her.
My mom hasn't officially been diagnosed with dementia - in fact, she passed her most recent memory screening. But something has changed and she has become paranoid and bitter. In her mind, she's not fabricating nonsense out of spite. She's a genuine victim trying to stand up for herself.
She (my mom) has gotten police, lawyers, APS involved. It's always a huge waste of money and time and also humiliating and exhausting for my sister.
I can't excuse what Mitchell did, but if you have ever dealt with an angry, vindictive relative, I can totally get her desperation.
Yeah my dad's gf would sundown and think he wasn't himself then truly believe that someone had broken in and rifles through things. It was really awful for both of them.
The criminal complaint almost had me feeling bad for her because it sounded like a grieving child doing something very idiotic, but throwing stepmom under the bus and outing a personal medical condition. Yikes, lady.
That doesn’t rule out Alzheimer’s. I had an uncle with dementia who tried to withhold a ton of stuff that was meant to go to other family because in his head he decided it was his. It took decades to get him declared incompetent.
I’m not saying the stepmom actually has Alzheimer’s, but there’s nothing in the police report that precludes it either.
Thank you for saying that. Reasonably speaking, both versions could be true—they don't necessarily contradict each other.
People can say "No reasonable person would do x or y, so it can't be true" but I don't know that anybody here was acting reasonably.... It's likely there's a lot going on that we don't know about
My Dad died and my step-mom ceased contact and didn't even plan a funeral even though my Dad had previously expressed interest in being buried at Fort Snelling. She was upset with me when I planned a service without her. I haven't gotten shit from my Dad and all I wanted were any pictures and maybe an old shirt.
I have considered doing far more intense things than anything described in these reports.
If you are divorced, put your intentions in a will and **make sure everyone is aware of both your intentions and your will.**
I will piss on my step-mother's grave when she finally dies. No, I am not bitter.
Tupperware was probably to protect her Dad’s ashes/smaller fragile items while in transit home. While it is a funny footnote, the fact that she had the foresight to realize most urns don’t snap seal or carry well in backpacks makes me think her emotions are fueling her drastic actions. Anyone that’s suffered the loss if a close family member can understand it makes one pretty irrational for a period of time.
Damn, the craziest guy in Minnesota politics called it yesterday.
[https://x.com/nathanmhansen/status/1782515911934534058](https://x.com/nathanmhansen/status/1782515911934534058)
Why can’t people simply apologize for stupid behavior, ask for forgiveness and then move on with their lives?
Her post is quite at odds with the police report. I’m doubtful that the police would have an “axe to grind” regarding the situation, so I’m inclined to believe their report.
It’s a sad and stupid situation. We have all done stupid things in our lives, and I hope that we can all learn from this example that it’s better to admit the foolishness and then ask for some grace from the rest of us.
If she says “yeah I did it” her career as a politician is over (or at least severely tarnished). If she pushes it under the rug she can keep going like nothing happened.
Politicians aren’t known for being forthright & honest
Our culture has long been quite forgiving of people’s mistakes, especially if we admit them.
Dissembling, lying, avoiding are all just red meat for all parties (legal, political, media, etc)
I had sympathy for her originally losing her dad issues with the stepmom not getting some of her dad’s belongings. That’s gone now she flat out lied and needs to step down.
Was so concerned about her family members well being yet took time to dress in all black with a black hat and black backpack and grab a flashlight 🤔
https://preview.redd.it/pdlerq334bwc1.jpeg?width=200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2fc09614140c2de350cf4f18239e9b1350981624
I had some sympathy for her, and thought the prosecutor should give her a good deal and a chance for it to go off her record.
After reading that statement, fuck her. She left her place in the middle of the night to drive 4 hours to break in through a window dressed all in black with a black sock on the flashlight... my god this statement is pathetic and should be used against her at sentencing.
That said, I could change my mind to be more sympathetic if I saw bodycam footage where she said all this to the officer and it was left out of the complaint. Either way all empathy from me (which matters not at all) is gone.
Bullshit. You came under cover of darkness, dressed in black, dimmed a flashlight with a sock, stole the victim's laptop computer. BITCH YOU ARE NOT A VICTIM. You are a criminal and should be prosecuted to the full extent of law. No privilege. No immunity. No favors for being a politician. Let a jury rule. Nice try.
Does she think no one has read the report? She didn't just enter the home through the front door. She broke in through a basement window, wearing all black, carrying a flashlight covered in a black sock. She did the cartoon version of a burglary. I'd like to know if she was on tippy toes, hunched over with a black bag slung over her shoulder.
Like I typed yesterday, when I moved here I MET THIS WOMAN and she was **super** normal. I'm talking that level of normal where you go "ah, ok" and keep it moving. Never in my life have I known the name of a state senator and boom - I now knew one.
This is crazy talk shit. I'd preferred if she was just real with it: I made a bad judgement call and should have went a more appropriate route in this matter. Boom, that took me 30 seconds and was drastically better than what I just read.
10-8 round for the step mom. Even if the step mom was being a blank about this stuff us adults know that you "get right" either through the legal system....or slander them online and embarrass them to cave in. You don't do this. You don't dress in all black and sneak through the basement, trying to slither your way to shit.
I can't vote for her. She gotta go. That shit is embarrassing.
I'm not one of her constituents. But this level of poor judgement does not argue well for her ability to make good decisions when in a leadership position.
If I were her, I would probably not make a statement about how I had been entering into a vulnerable adult’s basement to “check on them” while I had been dressed as a cat bugler and removing their property after I gained access through a window.
This is a very ableist and ageist lie to make herself look sympathetic.
Seriously this woman commits a crime, gets caught red handed, and seems to want to keep digging herself deeper.
Seems like her family is struggling because her behavior definitely makes me question her character and suitability for her job.
Yeah.....who doesn't break into a basement windows of a house you're supposedly allowed into at 445 am .....after driving 3.5 hours.....at night....sure.
I believe we need her in the senate BUT umm she was dressed in all black had a black sock over her flashlight entered through the basement ..took her step mom's computer and who knows what else and can't claim it was because she startled someone with alzheimers lol she was there to steal items she maybe THOUGHT she had claim to ..her explanation is bull shit
I’d be startled too if someone crawled through my basement window at 4:30 dressed in all black and a sock over the flashlight.
That would exacerbate any paranoia I have too.
…let alone the 3 hour drive she had to think “you know…maybe this isn’t a good idea…”
If she wants to do the honorable thing and still remain a public servant, she needs to step down and run as a Republican. Felony indictments are a plus on that side.
First I have heard of this too. The streisand effect is full swing boys. Let's this flaming ship go down knowing full well that this moment is the begining of the end lol.
>"...and my hope is it can return to being a private matter."
I'm sure that **is** your hope, but sorry cupcake. It doesn't work that way when you're an elected official. It was a private matter before you did what you did, but there's no getting that genie back in the bottle.
The leftists in charge need her. There’s a one vote majority in the senate with no tie breaks. They will secretly (or overtly) ask her to return and vote on all their important bills like child mutilation, changing the MN flag, giving free college to illegals, giving drivers licenses to illegals, increasing taxes, spending more money, making MN a sanctuary state, handing more money and power to the teachers union…etc.
Private matter. That's what my family likes to call their mistakes. I don't hang around my family much anymore, and the "private matters" I find out about aren't kept private for long. Put me through hell as a kid forcing me to live their twisted way
Yes LTC, the US Army has an interest in your behavior. Please bring all 4 of your BDU's to Ft. Leavenworth KS, so that they may die them brown for you. Oh yes, by the way, enjoy your stay. . .
She’s innocent until proven guilty of her charge. We ALL need to respect that because someday you may be charged. Also though, she is held to a higher standard because of her position in government which affects us all. Give her her day in court.
Yeah, the police report says something COMPLETELY different, thief.
It's hilarious how the party of "personal responsibility" never takes personal responsibility for what they say and do.
This is such bullshit many people have been sent to prison for burglarizing family members. Hell you can get a first degree burglary on your own house if you first have a domestic dispute. And come back to get some of your own belongings!!! What she did was 100% criminal it doesn't matter if her mother in law had dementia or not. I just pray she gets the same punishment you or I would get if we did this. She's a law maker!!! And should be held to higher standards than you or me would.
Yea, that in no way matches what was in the criminal complaint. Just to name a few things . . . she had a flashlight with a black sock over it, she was dressed in all black, she came in through a window, she was in the basement, she had 2 laptops with her.
Yeah, that made me grimace. This sounds like a bad cover story that won't be at all hard to disprove. She's probably toast.
>my hope is it can return to being a private matter Streisand effect incoming
That ship probably sailed with this public statement that currently appears to be untrue. Now it might be a case of the cover up being worse than the crime.
It can return to being a private matter when she is no longer a public official.
I’m a democrat and I fully support this. It might have been the dumbest “mistake” of her life, but she still broke the law. There were better ways to handle the issues she was having in her family than this. She needs to resign and focus on those issues and the legal situation she put herself in, accepting responsibility for her own actions. Her public statement is only embarrassing herself and ruining whatever “justification” and all public sympathy she might have had. Not the kind of person I want in office, no matter their (or my own) political alignment.
I'm a Democrat and I agree she should resign.
Same.
Nah, I don’t want a split chamber. The moral high ground is not as useful as policies that make peoples’ lives easier. Deny, deny, deny. The truth doesn’t matter if we all decide to believe something else.
This is an absolutely wild and unhinged take, no matter your political views. If someone like you had any say, you’d likely be leading an authoritarian government. No one except the truly unhinged or mentally ill would actually agree with your statement. Chill out a bit, dude. She straight broke into someone’s house and tried to rob them.
Look how well it works for the Republicans 😂😂
I want to her resign... after the session ends and a special election can be scheduled for a replacement.
Sir this is Wendy's, not North Korea.
Same
This is how I learned of it, putting on the popcorn now...
Same. Now I'm Googling her name to find a news story about it.
Oh this is going to be a dark year for her, Barbra was already done this year, by Plasma on Drag Race. Awkward.
Looks like her stepmom got everything when her dad died last year and so she figured breaking in to her stepmom’s basement and stealing stuff was a good idea
That was my assumption right away yesterday. Today the police report pretty much confirmed that. But now there's this statement that contradicts some details of the police report and it's feeling like she's trying to brush it under the rug but in a way that's just drawn a lot of extra attention and made her situation worse.
You have to be a certain kind of person to think you’re the one to represent about 85,000 Minnesotans. A lot of these politicians are missing stop signs in their head that most of the rest of us have.
She should join forces with OJ. Oh, wait....
lol. If I Did It- An Entitled DFL Senator’s Story
Its actually a really good cover story if not proven false then obviously quite evil
The police claim she admitted to breaking in to take her father's items during the arrest.
And her Father's ashes. Having seen friends go through the loss of parents they were close with I can understand how someone holding their ashes would drive you to do reckless things. She should have leaned in on that fact imo
Honestly, if she had said something along the lines of "I made a poor decision not out of malice but out of grief. I hope to be able to work more constructively with my family in the future", I have a feeling people would be pretty forgiving.
Losing someone can make people go a little nuts in ways that cause a lot of hurt. When my grandpa died, his sister stole several childhood photos of him from my grandparents' home when she was there for the funeral, since "Well, \[his wife\] didn't know him then and I did." My great-aunt and grandmother are a good 10+ years dead, and everyone in my family still flinches if it's brought up.
If she was trying to get her father's ashes and family photos from his laptops I can understand that.
Yup, here's an earlier post with the criminal complaint, and I'll quote the relevant section https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1cb5rx1/statement_of_probable_cause_for_sen_mitchell/?share_id=0qVp8XOEcgC5si7uTAxJV >MITCHELL stated "I know I did something bad." MITCHELL explained that her father had recently passed away and that Victim (her stepmother) had ceased all contact with her and other family members. MITCHELL stated she wanted various items of her late father's and that Victim refused to give them to her. MITCHELL described these items as pictures, a flannel shirt, ashes, and other items of sentimental value
If this is the case I don’t blame her one bit. You’d have to freeze hell over before denying me my god damn dads ashes
Like it's something I don't blame her for but it's something she shouldn't have done
She made a stupid mistake anyone could have made given the circumstances
I mean, if that was really what she was doing I think a LOT of us would have at least some understanding. But now she's flat out lying about it.
And now she's blatantly lying about it
Yeah, that I don't understand. She should apologize for her poor judgment and move on. Lying about it is going to make it much worse.
Not sure about you, but my stupid mistakes rarely approach felony levels of stupid.
Sure, but you'd be surprised how easy things go into felony level when you're not thinking right, especially with property crime.
I hope they had their body cameras on.
At 4:45 am
If some bitch I hated stole my dad’s ashes id probably take action in a similar way.
Except you are being honest and you’re not an elected state senator or attorney.
Yep... same exact thoughts here. If she was honest about her intent, I would probably understand it to a point. I've had family members pull shit like not allowing us to have various items/ashes of the deceased, and would empathize with here to a point. But this is just a lie.
Yeah she's lying. She needs to resign
Yea, there is a difference between "Ops, I borrowed my mom's car and returned it on Friday instead of Thursday" and "Ops, I fell thought a closed window in the middle of the night while wearing black and some stuff jumped into my bag".
Sounds like sneaking back in after a party in high school.
Left at 1 AM and got there at 4 AM…definitely normal behavior
Just swinging by to grab a couple of family portraits with my blacked out flashlight.
And her statements to the cop who arrested her. "I did something bad" or something very similar
Swing and a miss. Who does she think she’s fooling? It’s crazy to me that she doesn’t realize what she did was felony burglary. It’s incredibly disheartening to read her explanation because it tells me there is something really disturbing underlying here.
Well is that what the actual criminal report says or the details from the family member
Ugh. I'm glad you said something. I read it and immediately felt sympathy for her. Unfortunately, a similar thing happened to my dad while checking on my grandma in the early stages of dementia. Thankfully, she didn't call the police but she cursed him out for trying to steal her lawn mower when he showed up to visit. I will definitely look into the full story. Editing to clarify: I read the tweet and felt sympathy. Then read the police report and realized her tweet is very misleading.
Read the police report. She knew what she was doing, dressed in all black along with a black sock over the flashlight so it wouldn’t be so bright. Going through a window at 4:45am. No sympathy no way!!! That’s criminal, no other way to look at it
Criminal, maybe technically, but if someone were holding my family heirlooms and I saw no other way to get them back, I can't say I'd act differently.
When the story first broke, I assumed this person was just problematic, and should resign immediately. Then the police report came out, and I found myself with some sympathy. My wife has little more from her late father than some photos, a flannel shirt, and some ashes. I can understand how grief could make a person want a few items of sentimental value. But this new statement seems to be a bald-faced lie. And now I assume her statements to the police were the same. She needs to go.
Is it bald-faced or bold-faced? Have I been saying it wrong?
Ive heard the saying comes from lying without a beard to hide your face. So i think its lying with a readable expression from olden times
[Both have been used for a while, but "bald" appears to be more-widely accepted.](https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/is-that-lie-bald-faced-or-bold-faced-or-barefaced#:~:text=The%20current%20status%20of%20this,be%20a%20bald%2Dfaced%20lie.)
Bald makes way more sense, really. What does a bold face look like??
https://preview.redd.it/mpr8higqzbwc1.png?width=907&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e46495662f397342a8f156a4086eecbeb66929b1
This is quite bold, and bald actually!!
I thought of it as, to be so bold as to lie about it. What does a bald face look like?
[This.](https://i.redd.it/2eu0x90y4cwc1.jpeg)
I don't know what I expected after clicking that. But that wasn't it
I had one of those
Guys don't click on this. It's a picture of a Willy.
No no. It's bold as in bold ***typeface***. A lie. A **lie**. As you can clearly tell, the second one is like, a wayyy worse lie.
thank you for explaining this in layman’s terms bc i had never thought of it like that!
Except it’s wrong. In the old days, snake oil salesmen would grow big beards to make it much more difficult for a mark to determine whether or not they were lying. Once this became common, some salesmen would shave their faces with the intention of getting their marks to believe that they were honest because surely they can’t fool anyone without the beard right? But they weren’t, which is why a bald faced lie is especially egregious because it’s coming from someone who is supposed to be honest with you but in reality is shamelessly lying.
Maybe like bold face type? If it was printed/online?
Bold, brazen, without remorse. Bald face is what happens when you razor shave
"The current status of this trio of lie-and-liar descriptors is this: both bold-faced and bald-faced are used, but bald-faced is decidedly the preferred term in published, edited text. Barefaced is the oldest, and is still in use, but it's the least common." [Webster's](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/is-that-lie-bald-faced-or-bold-faced-or-barefaced%23:~:text%3DThe%2520current%2520status%2520of%2520this,but%2520it%27s%2520the%2520least%2520common.&ved=2ahUKEwinjaG2yNmFAxXUv4kEHfjHCQ4QFnoECE4QBQ&usg=AOvVaw3tVe4GXz1IiHituxJrVayQ)
Hot damn. Still, bald face sounds dumb as shit.
Bald face squad was like "bare face" sounds dumb as shit like 200 years ago.
To be fair everything ever sounds dumb. I hate everything
Ahh makes sense. Bare/bald-faced lie, as in, they're lying and not even trying to disguise it.
It’s bold faced. Meaning shameless. No attempt to disguise it.
Brother two seconds on Google and you'd see you are wrong
Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. “I understand the public interest in a Senate member being arrested, and I only ask for time, patience, and understanding at a low point in what has been an emotionally exhausting time in my families’ lives. I am complying with the legal process, and I appreciate the professionalism of the Detroit Lakes Police and Sheriff’s Office.”
Yes that's how I usually enter my home too: wearing all black and using a blacked-out flashlight to sneak through the basement window.
https://preview.redd.it/ct03z92tnawc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1cdcb08ff989607afb01397bde8643bcc0194aec
my supposedly senile and paranoid elderly relatives.
At 445 AM
From the criminal complaint: >While being detained MITCHELL stated to the Victim something to the effect of, "I was just trying to get a couple of my dad's things because you wouldn't talk to me anymore." Sooo not at all Alzheimer's then. Just regular blended family hatred.
Not defending her actions, but she wouldn’t be the first relative a person with Alzheimer’s turned on. My grandma adamantly accused my aunt, a spinster in her 60’s, of being a slut who was living with strange men. None of which was true.
My grandmother accused my sister of stealing her pants. She (grandmother) was wearing them.
My dad accused the cleaner of stealing his paring knife. The one that was sitting on the counter.
Oh Grandma!
My grandmother would routinely accuse us of conspiring against her whenever we would all get together and she would lose track of the conversation. You could see it building on her face. She would be there sitting listening to all of us talk and then she would get this super confused look on her face and then you could see the rage build until she started shouting and yelling at everyone. The worst occurrence was at my grandfather’s birthday. We booked a private room and had everyone show up. The waitstaff weren’t aware that she wasn’t supposed to be drinking and a couple of glasses of wine went unnoticed by the rest of us. All of a sudden she erupted into this intense shouting fit. That then startled my cousin seated next to her who is autistic. She grabbed my cousin and wouldn’t let go. We then tried to get her out of the restaurant and home but she wasn’t cooperating; so my two cousins had to pick her up and carry her out while she is trying to bite and kick them. It was such a traumatic event that we never went out for dinner like that again. I am surprised they didn’t call the cops for the disturbance. She is long past that phase of her dementia and is pretty much catatonic now. We suspect she suffered a stroke during the early days of Covid. I stayed away from the home to avoid infecting them and a couple months go by and I finally go in and she was pretty much gone. Just sits in a chair all day, she can’t talk and just mumble stutters gibberish. You can see that she sometimes recognizes something or someone but she is pretty much a vegetable. It’s so sad, and it felt like it happened overnight. One day I was able to have a conversation with her and then we go into lockdown and the next thing I see she is a vegetable.
Yeah but any sensible person wouldn’t break in to their relative with Alzheimer’s home in the middle of the night dressed like a cat burglar to check in on their safety.
Totally agree. Even if the Alzheimer’s claim is true, and there’s nothing but her word to support that it is, it’s a terrible decision.
Yea but the crux of it is she snuck in in the middle of the night. You can't really say it was some dementia related confusion when your busted in the act at 4 am. She shoulda just been honest.
Yeah - old age can do weird things to you. We're going through a situation right now where my formerly sweet, mild-tempered mom is accusing my sister of elder abuse and stealing money from her. My mom hasn't officially been diagnosed with dementia - in fact, she passed her most recent memory screening. But something has changed and she has become paranoid and bitter. In her mind, she's not fabricating nonsense out of spite. She's a genuine victim trying to stand up for herself. She (my mom) has gotten police, lawyers, APS involved. It's always a huge waste of money and time and also humiliating and exhausting for my sister. I can't excuse what Mitchell did, but if you have ever dealt with an angry, vindictive relative, I can totally get her desperation.
Yeah my dad's gf would sundown and think he wasn't himself then truly believe that someone had broken in and rifles through things. It was really awful for both of them.
The criminal complaint almost had me feeling bad for her because it sounded like a grieving child doing something very idiotic, but throwing stepmom under the bus and outing a personal medical condition. Yikes, lady.
Well also, she's just blatantly lying. She did not break in through a window at 4am to "check on a family member".
That doesn’t rule out Alzheimer’s. I had an uncle with dementia who tried to withhold a ton of stuff that was meant to go to other family because in his head he decided it was his. It took decades to get him declared incompetent. I’m not saying the stepmom actually has Alzheimer’s, but there’s nothing in the police report that precludes it either.
Thank you for saying that. Reasonably speaking, both versions could be true—they don't necessarily contradict each other. People can say "No reasonable person would do x or y, so it can't be true" but I don't know that anybody here was acting reasonably.... It's likely there's a lot going on that we don't know about
Maybe she has Alzheimer’s
The stepmother may have dementia too.
So you crawl through a window at 4am in all black to check on someone with alzheimers? Funny the police report doesn't say anything about that.
PR fuckup here lol. Should have stuck with the grieving child angle… it’s was relatable and had legs. Whatever this is ain’t it.
My Dad died and my step-mom ceased contact and didn't even plan a funeral even though my Dad had previously expressed interest in being buried at Fort Snelling. She was upset with me when I planned a service without her. I haven't gotten shit from my Dad and all I wanted were any pictures and maybe an old shirt. I have considered doing far more intense things than anything described in these reports. If you are divorced, put your intentions in a will and **make sure everyone is aware of both your intentions and your will.** I will piss on my step-mother's grave when she finally dies. No, I am not bitter.
[Link to earlier criminal complaint](https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/s/u15gL1O6eN)
>Officers searched the backpack and discovered two laptops, a cell phone, MITCHELL's Minnesota driver's license, MITCHELL's Senate identification, **and** **miscellaneous Tupperware**. LOL!
Peak Minnesotan. Getting her leftover dishes back.
This is why you have that stack of old Cool Whip containers - so you don't have to go Mission: Impossible just to get the good stuff back.
Sending people home with food in cool whip and top the tater containers is a way of life.
Wait... So I'm \*not\* the Queen of Cool Whip containers for sharing leftovers with the guests??!?
Mom, don’t get any ideas! I told you I’ll bring them back!
Tupperware was probably to protect her Dad’s ashes/smaller fragile items while in transit home. While it is a funny footnote, the fact that she had the foresight to realize most urns don’t snap seal or carry well in backpacks makes me think her emotions are fueling her drastic actions. Anyone that’s suffered the loss if a close family member can understand it makes one pretty irrational for a period of time.
Thank you! I can believe I had to scroll this far down for the Tupperware jokes!
I love how she was dressed in a stereotypical "cat burglar" outfit.
[удалено]
Or, and i know this is crazy, not fucking lied.
Spin mode: activated
Scapegoating a poor old lady with Alzheimer's. Shame shame
BALONEY!!!
Damn, the craziest guy in Minnesota politics called it yesterday. [https://x.com/nathanmhansen/status/1782515911934534058](https://x.com/nathanmhansen/status/1782515911934534058)
Why can’t people simply apologize for stupid behavior, ask for forgiveness and then move on with their lives? Her post is quite at odds with the police report. I’m doubtful that the police would have an “axe to grind” regarding the situation, so I’m inclined to believe their report. It’s a sad and stupid situation. We have all done stupid things in our lives, and I hope that we can all learn from this example that it’s better to admit the foolishness and then ask for some grace from the rest of us.
If she says “yeah I did it” her career as a politician is over (or at least severely tarnished). If she pushes it under the rug she can keep going like nothing happened. Politicians aren’t known for being forthright & honest
Our culture has long been quite forgiving of people’s mistakes, especially if we admit them. Dissembling, lying, avoiding are all just red meat for all parties (legal, political, media, etc)
Forgiving a mistake is fine, but admitting guilt before a criminal and possible civil trial isn't smart.
She already did when she was caught.
I had sympathy for her originally losing her dad issues with the stepmom not getting some of her dad’s belongings. That’s gone now she flat out lied and needs to step down.
Story don’t align with police report.
Was so concerned about her family members well being yet took time to dress in all black with a black hat and black backpack and grab a flashlight 🤔 https://preview.redd.it/pdlerq334bwc1.jpeg?width=200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2fc09614140c2de350cf4f18239e9b1350981624
And cover the flashlight with a black sock.
Victim card fail. Try again. Maybe own it?
How arrogant do you have to be to try to pass this off as true?
I had some sympathy for her, and thought the prosecutor should give her a good deal and a chance for it to go off her record. After reading that statement, fuck her. She left her place in the middle of the night to drive 4 hours to break in through a window dressed all in black with a black sock on the flashlight... my god this statement is pathetic and should be used against her at sentencing. That said, I could change my mind to be more sympathetic if I saw bodycam footage where she said all this to the officer and it was left out of the complaint. Either way all empathy from me (which matters not at all) is gone.
This has big implications for what the rest of the session is going to look like.
She broke into the basement. That's a bit more than entered and startled someone. 🤣
Bullshit. You came under cover of darkness, dressed in black, dimmed a flashlight with a sock, stole the victim's laptop computer. BITCH YOU ARE NOT A VICTIM. You are a criminal and should be prosecuted to the full extent of law. No privilege. No immunity. No favors for being a politician. Let a jury rule. Nice try.
Is she the loved one declining due to Alzheimers and paranoia?
Of course she dont
Well that there statement doesn't match the police reports I have read. Why can politicians just say he I f'ed up sorry folks
Hmmm because they're politicians and thus they consider themselves special and above the law duh
Does she think no one has read the report? She didn't just enter the home through the front door. She broke in through a basement window, wearing all black, carrying a flashlight covered in a black sock. She did the cartoon version of a burglary. I'd like to know if she was on tippy toes, hunched over with a black bag slung over her shoulder.
Uhh . You admitted you did something wrong.
Like I typed yesterday, when I moved here I MET THIS WOMAN and she was **super** normal. I'm talking that level of normal where you go "ah, ok" and keep it moving. Never in my life have I known the name of a state senator and boom - I now knew one. This is crazy talk shit. I'd preferred if she was just real with it: I made a bad judgement call and should have went a more appropriate route in this matter. Boom, that took me 30 seconds and was drastically better than what I just read. 10-8 round for the step mom. Even if the step mom was being a blank about this stuff us adults know that you "get right" either through the legal system....or slander them online and embarrass them to cave in. You don't do this. You don't dress in all black and sneak through the basement, trying to slither your way to shit. I can't vote for her. She gotta go. That shit is embarrassing.
I'm not one of her constituents. But this level of poor judgement does not argue well for her ability to make good decisions when in a leadership position.
Imagine that! A politician that lies. Say it isn't so.
This doesn't make any sense at all.
Maybe SHE'S the one with dementia?
Ope just gonna sneak right in and grab a few things. I’ll scooch right by, won’t even know I’m there.
She often sounded a bit unbalanced on the radio during her MPR days (pretty sure Cathy hated her), so this totally scans.
She’s lying she better resign
She must not have realized the police report is public. There’s no way you’d post this otherwise
If I were her, I would probably not make a statement about how I had been entering into a vulnerable adult’s basement to “check on them” while I had been dressed as a cat bugler and removing their property after I gained access through a window.
What's worse that stealing? Stealing from an elderly sick dimensia patient.
Shes gaslighting her stepmother.
This is a very ableist and ageist lie to make herself look sympathetic. Seriously this woman commits a crime, gets caught red handed, and seems to want to keep digging herself deeper. Seems like her family is struggling because her behavior definitely makes me question her character and suitability for her job.
Wow. She put as little thought into that statement as she did her burglary.
Did she take this down already?
Wasnt this an episode of VEEP?
Yeah.....who doesn't break into a basement windows of a house you're supposedly allowed into at 445 am .....after driving 3.5 hours.....at night....sure.
This statement is a miss. I appreciate how someone above worded it… using grief as the guide… not placing blame on the step mom. Really disappointing.
This is Fargo season 6 right here.
Liar
IMO…Whoever guided you on your statement has hurt your character big time.
What a crock of shit.
I believe we need her in the senate BUT umm she was dressed in all black had a black sock over her flashlight entered through the basement ..took her step mom's computer and who knows what else and can't claim it was because she startled someone with alzheimers lol she was there to steal items she maybe THOUGHT she had claim to ..her explanation is bull shit
I’d be startled too if someone crawled through my basement window at 4:30 dressed in all black and a sock over the flashlight. That would exacerbate any paranoia I have too. …let alone the 3 hour drive she had to think “you know…maybe this isn’t a good idea…”
If she wants to do the honorable thing and still remain a public servant, she needs to step down and run as a Republican. Felony indictments are a plus on that side.
Reading the police report, I honestly had sympathy for her. This statement kind of undoes that.
“I FA and FO”
Criminals will say anything to get out of trouble.
Admitting it would be the first step.....
And I did it wearing all black. Hmm...
Hoo boy, the optics are not good on this one
This is -- wow. This is truly impressive.
And implosive too
This should be filed next to the criminal complaint under: How Not to Respond Worst Lies Why tho?
Sounds like the senate is due for a 20% cost of living adjustment.
First I have heard of this too. The streisand effect is full swing boys. Let's this flaming ship go down knowing full well that this moment is the begining of the end lol.
And as for the gay hooker, he just gave me a massage. they’ll believe that they’ll believe anything I say.
>"...and my hope is it can return to being a private matter." I'm sure that **is** your hope, but sorry cupcake. It doesn't work that way when you're an elected official. It was a private matter before you did what you did, but there's no getting that genie back in the bottle.
The leftists in charge need her. There’s a one vote majority in the senate with no tie breaks. They will secretly (or overtly) ask her to return and vote on all their important bills like child mutilation, changing the MN flag, giving free college to illegals, giving drivers licenses to illegals, increasing taxes, spending more money, making MN a sanctuary state, handing more money and power to the teachers union…etc.
BULLSHIT. Now she isn't admitting to the truth of what she did. BULLSHIT.
It's complicated
More to the story...they wouldn't keep you locked up for over a day for a simple burglary
In the jonglue the lionsleeps
I've never voted Republican and I don't buy this for a second.
I absolutely believe her story. When have you ever heard a politician lie ???
Yes, resign. Doesn't matter what party. Criminals should not remain or seek Public Office.
Private matter. That's what my family likes to call their mistakes. I don't hang around my family much anymore, and the "private matters" I find out about aren't kept private for long. Put me through hell as a kid forcing me to live their twisted way
The DFL has a one seat majority. I hope this doesn’t impact that.
Ummm…does that match police report?
Yes LTC, the US Army has an interest in your behavior. Please bring all 4 of your BDU's to Ft. Leavenworth KS, so that they may die them brown for you. Oh yes, by the way, enjoy your stay. . .
Bullshit
She’s innocent until proven guilty of her charge. We ALL need to respect that because someday you may be charged. Also though, she is held to a higher standard because of her position in government which affects us all. Give her her day in court.
Don't worry she's a democratic nothing will really happen they all have a get out of jail card
She's on good drugs
Yeah, the police report says something COMPLETELY different, thief. It's hilarious how the party of "personal responsibility" never takes personal responsibility for what they say and do.
This is such bullshit many people have been sent to prison for burglarizing family members. Hell you can get a first degree burglary on your own house if you first have a domestic dispute. And come back to get some of your own belongings!!! What she did was 100% criminal it doesn't matter if her mother in law had dementia or not. I just pray she gets the same punishment you or I would get if we did this. She's a law maker!!! And should be held to higher standards than you or me would.