Texas Lt. Gov.: BLM Protesters 'Hypocrites' For Running From Gunfire

[Blue_Tires]

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) on Friday afternoon railed against the people who took part in the protest in Dallas on Thursday night, charging that the protesters were "hypocrites" because, as he framed it, they were anti-police but expected the police to protect them once the shooting started.

"All those protesters last night, they ran the other way, expecting the men and women in blue to turn around and protect them. What hypocrites," Patrick said on Fox News. "I understand the First Amendment. I understand freedom of speech, and I defend it. It is in our Constitution and is in our soul, but you can't go out on social media and mainstream media and everywhere else and say that the police are racist or police are hateful or the police are killers."

Patrick said that the officers killed in the shooting at the scene of the protest "lost their life protecting people who were protesting against them."

Patrick recognized that the Dallas protest over the deadly shootings of black men by police in Louisiana and Minnesota on Thursday night was peaceful, but he placed some blame for the deadly shooting on those who speak out against police violence.

"I do blame people on social media, with their hatred towards police. I do blame, I saw Jesse Jackson — I think it was on Fox the other night — calling police racist without any facts. I do blame former Black Lives Matters protests. Last night was peaceful, but others have not been," Patrick said on Fox News.

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[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

1. "If only they had guns..."

POLITICS: Trump Says A “Good Guy With A Gun” Would’ve Stopped Orlando Massacre.

In the wake of the Orlando massacre, gun-rights advocates and right-wingers are already screaming about how it was a “gun-free zone” and if only there had been a good guy with a gun, this wouldn’t have happened. Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump announced that “If you had some guns in that club the night that this took place, if you had guns on the other side, you wouldn’t have had the tragedy that you had.”

As usual, however, this line of reasoning is so divorced from reality they might as well be in Narnia.

Well, umm, in Dallas...

http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/06/13/trump-just-said-good-guy-gun-stopped/

[struggle4progress]

2. "Ah wuz gonna drove to Dallas to help but Ah wuz laughin too hard!"

[puffy socks]

3. The same people the

police were ordering to get back?

[MohRokTah]

4. MohRokTah to TX Lt. Gov. - YOU ARE A FUCKING MORON!

One of the major demands of the BLM movementm is greater involvement by the police in the communities they police. They believe (rightly) that police that are more involved with the people they police won;t be so quick to view every encounter as a potential threat to their lives. The problems with cops shooting people for no damned reason at all only started getting worse when cops lived outside the communities they policed and spent their days in their cars and busting people. When cops used to walk beats, they knew everybody in the neighborhood, knew who was potentially trouble, who was just eccentric, and who would jump to their aid if needed.

Fucking idiot has no clue what BLM stands for.

[alarimer]

5. They actually helped the police!

God, I hate Dan Patrick. A truly horrible excuse for a human being.