Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick wasted no time blaming Black Lives Matter, Jesse Jackson and “social media” for the mass shooting in Dallas last week. He tells FOX “News” he thinks too many in the general public have “big mouths.” So basically, Patrick believes the people should do what they’re told and shut up about it, even when lives are taken for no good reason.
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 last night, calling police racist without any facts. I do blame former Black Lives Matter protests,” Patrick said in an interview first picked up by the Texas Tribune. “I grew up in a world, I’ve been around long enough, that we’ve always had bad people, we’ve always had dangerous people, but the general republic respected the police. Too many in the general public who aren’t criminals but have a big mouth are creating situations like we saw last night.
Dallas sports reporter Dale Hanson disagrees with the Lt. Governor. The broadcaster for WFAA8 ABC had a different experience last week during the Dallas shooting— one he feels resonates with more Americans, and one he is embarrassed to admit. Here are some frightful honest and profound excerpts from Hansen’s full commentary.
Reporters in our newsroom were scrambling. Producers were yelling. We turned off the lights, just in case... and I kept watching the game.
It was another shooting in America. It was in our city this time and police officers were being killed, but it was a couple of blocks away and the Rangers were being shut out.
This is what I have become. This is what too many of us have been for a long time now.
He states the painfully obvious. With each mass shooting, America goes through the motions of grieving and we make promises to change, but once again, we won't keep those promises — and “nothing will change.” The harsh reality of mass shooting has become expected and accepted in this country. He also mentions how our lives move on after these tragedies, but not so for the victims.
Hansen says shooting police officers will not solve the problem and says they are different and better in some ways...
Campaign ActionThey run into the darkened alley where we won't go. They run into the buildings we run from. They look for the person we try to hide from.
But they're not allowed to make the human mistakes that we all make, because they have the power of God strapped to their hip and the authority to use it.
Then the broadcaster makes a chilling statement.
A white man in America doesn't die for selling cigarettes on a street corner, he gets a ticket. A white man in America doesn't die for driving with a broken tail light, he gets a ticket, too. And the officers who abuse the badge and the power they have should be punished, but too many times they are not.He adds the officers who abuse the badge and authority too often go unpunished.
Towards the end of his commentary, Dale Hansen calls Lt. Governor Patrick “a fool” for blaming peaceful protestors. Hansen says this was not just an attack on the Dallas police, it was an attack on our basic humanity and the “decency we used to cherish in America.”
I’ve only touched on the power behind Dale Hansen’s words. Here is the 2 ½ minute video — well worth the view.
x Embedded ContentTruth. Much gratitude to Dale Hansen and others who speak out and who identify the problems and look for solutions, rather than look for who blame.