Your daily dose of irony: According to Black Lives Matter activist Deray McKesson, Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman is using the murder of one of his deputies “to politicize his grievance against a movement centered on ending violence and holding police accountable for their actions.”
After the gruesome execution of Deputy Darren Goforth at a Houston-area gas station last weekend, Hickman called for an end to the “very dangerous national rhetoric” directed toward law enforcement: “We’ve heard ‘black lives matter,’ ‘all lives matter,’ well, cops’ lives matter, too. So why don’t we drop the qualifier and just say ‘lives matter’ and take that to the bank?” And since Houston investigators still have not declared a motive, it’s possible that Sheriff Hickman got ahead of himself in linking the shooting to the Black Lives Matter movement.
But “politicizing his grievance”? I’d say this was an instance of “the pot calling the kettle black” — but I’m sure that’s racist now, too.
