The office of U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas District 13 announced Thursday, that upcoming mobile hours hosted by congressional staff will take place in Canadian, Iowa Park, Dalhart, and Vernon.
stop talking about jail is unthinkable and start saying that there is going to be a point, and maybe judges should be clear about where that point is, at which it will become inevitable. i think it s not just because it s donald trump but also for the example that he sets to other would-be people who exhibit threatening behavior. i have to recall the video we just played ronny jackson. a republican congressman out there berating law enforcement, calling them any names under the sun, and then simultaneously audaciously has the chutzpah, i don t know what you would call, it embraces the hypocrisy of saying he s somebody who backs the blue. he s a law and order guy. the fallacy of that line, of that position, is revealed so acutely in moments like this. and even though it is repetitive, i think it really bears mentioning. when law enforcement comes for you, there s no backing the blow.
congressman jackson has stood by his actions, claiming he was right to disobey the officers orders. it is one of the latest examples we have a republican party that claims to support law enforcement right up until the moment that members of this party find themselves in trouble with the law. there is no better example of this than donald trump, who regularly calls for law and order while simultaneously attacking federal law enforcement and deriding prosecutors. just to be clear here, it s not the police actions are always justified. the story of 12-year-old year old to tashawn bernard makes that abundantly clear. but egregious policing like that is exactly what many democrats and reform advocates are trying to change. and it is precisely what republicans have tried to weaponize as they decry any call for reform. and today trump s very real attacks on law enforcement and our system of justice appear to have placed innocent people in very serious jeopardy. that story is coming up next. w
i don t think that s what backing the blue means. backing the blue is basically, in the way that they have to use that phrase, means that the law should be a kind of praetorian guard against a certain strata of people and then it should be backed in doing whatever it needs to do to defend them and their property. it certainly doesn t mean law and order in the general sense of the global sense. otherwise the republican party would ve been outraged over what happened to the capitol police on january 6th. let s keep in mind the genesis of back the blue was a conservative response to the black lives matter movement. there is an implicit racial and racist threat that runs through this confederacy of people. the police are not supposed to police them. the police are supposed to police those other people. when the police and out policing a donald trump or ronny jackson, they are by definition, by this definition, stepping out of their proper role.
expletives at police officer s is texas republican ronny jackson. the video, obtained this week by the texas tribune, shows congressman jackson getting into an altercation with police, become a belligerent, and eventually being forced to the ground. congressman jackson had been attending a rodeo when a teenager began experiencing in a medical emergency. congressman jackson, who was a physician, attempted to assist the teenager. but when police asked the congressman to step back, so that emergency medical services could respond, congressman jackson reportedly began shouting and threatening to beat up a state trooper. that is when the handcuffs came out and ronny jackson was thrown to the ground. it should be noted that this is the same congressman ronny jackson who has accused democrats of failing to support law enforcement. in may of 2021, ronny jackson tweeted, unlike our president, i will always stand by our country s police officers. back the blue! since this indictment,