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Vance Boelter claims he was trying to make citizen's arrest during lawmaker shootings

A strange start today in the state case against a political assassin. That includes a jail house blog, a "Fight Club" reference, and this stunning new defense. Vance Boelter now claims he was trying to make a citizen's arrest when he carried out the lawmaker attacks. It's a claim prosecutors call "delusional." Jason Rantala was in court today.
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