I had planned to keep quiet about this display of intemperance from Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.
Then I thought I’d speak out.
While the state’s governor, Greg Abbott, was appealing for calm, unity and peace, the state’s No. 2 elected official took quite another approach.
Dan Patrick decided to attack the protestors in Dallas last night for running when they heard gunshots. They sought protection from the people whose activities they were protesting, Patrick said.
He called the frightened protestors “hyprocrites.”
How in the world does this individual justify such mean-spiritedness in light of what happened in Dallas?
Five law enforcement officials — four from the Dallas Police Department and one from the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Authority — have been shot to death.Ā Seven others are injured, some of them seriously.
The city, state and nation are inĀ utter and complete grief over what has happened.
And the state’s lieutenant governor hurls epithets at those who — until the gunfire erupted — were engaging in a peaceful march to protest the shooting deaths of two young black men in other communities by police officers.
Lt. Gov. Patrick has disgraced himself … and the state he represents.