Louie Gohmert: “I appreciate very much my friend, Mr. Hice, who preceded me. It is a very sad day around the country. So much in the way…”

“I appreciate very much my friend, Mr. Hice, who preceded me. It is a very sad day around the country. So much in the way of sympathy and prayers for the victims' families in Dallas are greatly appreciated. As someone who grew up looking forward to visits to the big city of Dallas, it is deeply troubling to see what has happened there. The Dallas police chief said that the suspect said he wanted to kill White people, especially White police officers. I was listening in the cloakroom to a press conference going on now with some of our African American Members of Congress defending Black Lives Matter and discussing the unfairness in America for African Americans in this country. I don't know the races of the officers that were shot. Apparently, the suspect said he wanted to shoot and kill White officers, but I know there are a lot of officers in Dallas of a lot of different races. I had the opportunity, if you want to call it an opportunity, of trying a murder case for 10 weeks in Dallas. I worked with some incredible Dallas police officers. Because of my background, I continue to have great respect for law enforcement officers. There was something that we had seen since the protest days of the sixties and seventies: calling police officers pigs and calling them all kinds of names. People--terrorists from those days that have now grown up and even teaching college--wanted to kill pigs, wanted to kill police officers back then.…”