Unhinged Texas Lt. Gov. calls Dallas protesters ‘hypocrites’ for fleeing sniper’s bullets

“All those protesters last night, they ran the other way expecting the men and women in blue to turn around and protect them”, Patrick said Friday during an interview with Fox News.

In the wake of the deadliest day for law enforcement since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is blasting those who spread anti-police rhetoric on social media and called Black Live Matter activists “hypocrites” for their actions during Thursday night’s massacre.

“I do blame people on social media with their hatred toward police”, Patrick continued. “Last night was peaceful, but others have not been”, Patrick said on Fox News.

Protesters gathered in downtown Dallas Thursday night in response to two police shootings earlier this week that killed two black men: Alton Sterling, 37, and Philando Castile, 32.

“As we have done for decades, we marched and protested to highlight the urgent need to transform policing in America, to call for justice, transparency and accountability, and to demand that Black Lives Matter”, reads a statement issued on the group’s Facebook page.

Patrick, who is from Houston, appeared distraught as he described watching bodies of the slain officers wheeled by him at a Dallas hospital Friday evening.

Patrick even questioned Dallas police Chief David Brown’s choice for officers to wear their more friendly summer shirtsleeves. “I understand the First Amendment. But you can’t go out on social media and everywhere else and say the police are racist, the police are hateful, the police are killers”.

Racial tensions in the Dallas/Fort Worth area between law enforcement and minorities have received national attention in the past.

Patrick, who was acting governor until Abbott’s return, Friday morning ordered the flags to be lowered to half-staff until sundown Tuesday “in honor of the lives and public service of our slain officers and victims of yesterday’s tragic and senseless event”.

Both statements stood out as even Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, steered clear of blaming protesters or the president for what happened in Dallas. “With each innocent life lost, we lose more of our humanity. It is time for us to unite as Texans, as Americans, to say no more”, Abbott said in an open letter to Texans.