During a Tuesday interview on CNN, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) said that he would “absolutely” want the attorney general to investigate the Black Lives Matter movement.
He said he agreed with Donald Trump’s Monday night comments on Fox News, when the Republican candidate said that he would discuss the group with his attorney general if elected president.
Patrick has been critical of the Black Lives Matter movement, earlier this month blaming the deadly shooting of police officers in Dallas on anti-police rhetoric and Black Lives Matter protests. And he was critical again on Tuesday.
“We know we have a distrust in the black community of police. We know that there are some police officers who need to be replaced. And police forces want to remove those people as well,” Patrick said on CNN. “But before we can sit down at a table and have unity, we have to stop having protesters chanting ‘Kill the cops.'”
He then launched into bashing President Obama, who he confronted at a town hall last week, telling Obama that he does not fully support the police.
“The President has to speak out against that and the President needs to stop inviting people to the White House who say they want to kill cops,” Patrick said Tuesday, not specifying what White House guest he was referring to.
