America has had a very bad week. Just this week in Louisiana, 37-year-old Alton Sterling was shot and killed by police officers during a scuffle. Right after, 32-year-old Philando Castile was killed in Minnesota by a police officer during a traffic stop. Both men were black.
America has seen this tragic pattern before and the protests were imminent. Until just over six hours ago the protests were peaceful as people marched all across major cities in America.
As it stands now though, in the early hours of July 8 in Dallas, TX, 11 officers have been shot with five dying.
While most Americans are shocked and disgusted by the violence, there are some that are using these tragedies to stir fear and hate. One such lowlife is former GOP Rep. Joe Walsh.
The former Rep. of Illinois has taken to Twitter to not only stir up the racial tension, but also to threaten President Obama. Over the last four hours here are some of his pathetic tweets.
10 cops shot.
This is on Obama.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) July 8, 2016
10 Cops shot.
You did this Obama.
You did this liberals.
You did this #BLM.
Time to defend our Cops. Wake up. https://t.co/Zoc3x2xlMk
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) July 8, 2016
BLM should be categorized as a hate group.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) July 8, 2016
4 Dallas Cops assassinated tonight.
Blacks lives matter cheers.
LGBT blames Christians.
Obama defends Islam.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) July 8, 2016
Obama says Cops are racist so 2 uneducated black thugs shoot 10 Dallas Cops tonight, killing 4.
Wake up silent majority. Stand w our Cops.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) July 8, 2016
There is also one that he evidently had second thoughts about posting. As Mediaite reports, Walsh deleted this tweet, but not before someone got a screengrab of it.
Joe Walsh deleted his tweet. Here's the screenshot: pic.twitter.com/t5ke5YWxbu
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 8, 2016
In this tweet he seems to try and walk back on his tough talk.
I wasn't calling for violence, against Obama or anyone. Obama's words & BLM's deeds have gotten cops killed. Time for us to defend our cops.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) July 8, 2016
So all that racist and hateful ranting was just love and understanding Joe? It was a call to stop the violence and work together? Nice try you pathetic spineless jackass.
With all of the pathetic and hateful tweets, Walsh seems to have forgotten what Obama said just yesterday. As CBS News reported, Obama stated:
“When people say ‘black lives matter,’ that doesn’t mean blue lives don’t matter. That just means all lives matter…Change has been too slow. We have to have a greater sense of urgency about this.”
What a stark difference between a hateful racist and a true strong leader. One person that was not going to let Walsh walk away unscathed in the Twitterverse though was Montel Williams. His thoughts were loud and clear when he posted:
https://twitter.com/Montel_Williams/status/751280809865125888
Montel wasn’t done yet:
So we'll see if POS deadbeat dad Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom whines about me on @AM560TheAnswer tomorrow like he did last time #Coward
— Montel Williams (@Montel_Williams) July 8, 2016
Something has to give with this “police versus citizen” mentality. We have enough danger without this type of violence amongst ourselves.
The majority of police officers do their best to look out for their communities. At the same time, not every person of color is a threat. People like Joe Walsh are.
Our thoughts go out to the officers that lost their lives, the officers affected by this tragedy, and to all of their loved-ones.
Featured image via YouTube screengrab.