Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick calls Dallas protesters 'hypocrites' for running from sniper's bullets

[Peacetrain]

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called protesters who ran away from the hail of bullets that rained down on Downtown Dallas on Thursday night "hypocrites" during an interview Friday on Fox News.

"All those protesters last night, they turned around and ran the other way expecting the men and women in blue to protect them. What hypocrites!" an audibly emotional Patrick said.



http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-calls-dallas-protesters-hypocrites-article-1.2704730

[Skittles]

1. Dan Patrick is fucking SCUM

[Peacetrain]

2. I just heard about it... could not believe anyone could say something so stupid

[Skittles]

3. I try to give people the benefit of the doubt in times of crisis

we all do and say stupid things

but people like him, their racism comes through loud and clear

that gun humping bastard would have been running for the hills

[Peacetrain]

4. He sounds like some kind of deranged old Caesar of ancient Rome

wanting to watch unarmed innocents killed by the lions.. bullets going in all directions and unarmed people are supposed to run into the range of fire???. what a coward he is ..

[longship]

5. He probably would have soiled his shorts.

Spread that meme.

[Peacetrain]

6. Don't you know that is the truth!!!!

[Warpy]

7. Isn't he in prison yet?

Wheels of justice sure grind slow in Texas. Perhaps they're waiting until he's out of office, dead, and long buried.

It also sounds like he's been letting Louie Gohmert write his speeches for him.

[Peacetrain]

8. I never heard of him till today.. l live in Iowa

but the Louie Gohmert reference sounds just about right..

[MyNameGoesHere]

9. Well cattle breeding has let Texass learn how to breed prized

douchebags.

[Peacetrain]

11. ^^^^^^^^^

Apparently he has tried to walk it back.. but there is no way to walk back that much manure

[Archae]

10. Patrick is walking back that comment, according to CNN.

Don't forget he posted this on his Twitter, just a few hours after the Orlando massacre:



Patrick is a fundy nutcase, even worse than Abbot.

[Peacetrain]

12. Yep.. that is what I just read

they do that all the time.. vomit garbage up.. and then when it is out there try and walk it back.. leaving the stench..

[struggle4progress]

13. Maybe Texas should amend its constitution to require teaching children

to run towards the sound of gunfire

[Peacetrain]

15. Unbelievable.. wasn't it.. just unbelievable...

[MineralMan]

14. What an asshole!

[Peacetrain]

16. And that is being kind!

[gratuitous]

17. Well, where was Mr. Patrick?

The shooting went on for a long time. Where was the Lt. Gov.? Why wasn't he on the scene, as the second-highest elected official in all of Texas? Was he sleeping? Why wasn't the Texas Air National Guard scrambled? Did Patrick issue a stand down order? Can he prove he didn't?

Hypocrite.

[Takket]

18. maybe they ran the other way because they didn't want to be shot?

regardless of whether there were cops there or not?

and let's be clear. people aren't marching because they don't want police. they are marching because they don't want the police to murder them.