Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Is Tired Of Uppity Black Americans Exercising 1st Amendment Rights

“If Black Lives Matter Hadn’t Had That March, Those Five Police Officers Would Still Be Alive,” He Says

Texas’ race-baiting lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, doubled down Saturday on his statement from July blaming the Black Lives Matter movement for the deaths of five police officers in Dallas. 

The officers were ambushed by a deranged gunman, who was acting alone, at the conclusion of a peaceful protest in response to the fatal police shootings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota. 

But Patrick told Fox News a day later that Black Lives Matter was responsible for the officers’ deaths, saying protesters who ran from the bullets were “hypocrites” for expecting police to protect them. 

On Saturday, amid continued protests over the fatal police shooting of Keith Scott in Charlotte, Patrick said he regrets using the word “hypocrites,” but otherwise doesn’t “take back anything.” 

“If Black Lives Matter hadn’t had that march, those five police officers would still be alive,” Patrick said during The Texas Tribune Festival in Austin. 

In other words, if black Americans would simply stop exercising their fundamental freedom of assembly, guaranteed under the First Amendment that Patrick otherwise holds so dear, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

And that would also presumably give Patrick more time to deal with other pressing concerns facing Texas, such as transgender students using school restrooms.