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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: There's a War On Cops and The Media 'Are Not in the Police Officers' Corner'

Marjorie Kamys Cotera/Texas Tribune

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There was an  of a Houston deputy last week. Two days later, an off-duty officer in Abilene was . It was ruled a homicide.

The next day, a  responding to a distress call. On walls in Houston there is ; on one side, the head of a police officer. On the other, a gun pointed at it.

Police and officials from New York to Houston have linked the death of Houston Deputy Darren Goforth to the  protest movement focused on how police use excessive, sometimes lethal, force against African-American citizens.

The County Sheriff of Milwaukee calls these recent events a “war on police.� And the Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Dan Patrick, agrees. 

Patrick has  � and a  � calling these events a “morbid reality� for law enforcement officers.