The Southampton Town Board has pledged to model civility, respect and cooperation following recent politically motivated assassinations ­­­­­­­­— ­and called for other governments to do the same.

The "memorializing" resolution was introduced in response to the killings of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10 and former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, a Democrat, on June 14.

Southampton Town Councilman Michael Iasilli, a Democrat and a professor of political science and history, said he was moved to introduce the resolution after seeing his students' “horrified” reaction to the killings.

Federal authorities arrested Tyler Robinson, 22, and charged him with gunning down Kirk as he spoke during an event at Utah Valley University. Hortman and her husband, Mark

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