After stepping up to heckle Republicans on gun reforms, Beto O’Rourke was marched out of a news conference for the Texas school massacre on Wednesday and dubbed a “sick son of a b****h.”
After Texas Governor Greg Abbott blamed the shooting of 19 children and two teachers on a mental health issue, O’Rourke cried out.
His remarks were muffled, but he was quickly surrounded by sheriffs and led out of the building.
One person who was there labeled him a ‘sick son of a b***h’ for showing up to the press conference to politicize it rather than thinking of the victims.
‘You are out of line sir!’ he yelled.
‘Now is not the time to politicize pain and suffering,’ said Dade Phelan, the Texas House Speaker afterwards.
The governor had just completed a speech about the mental health suffering in the community of Uvalde, which he said was to blame for the atrocity yesterday.
‘Before coming out here we had a long discussion with the law enforcement at all levels. I asked the sheriff and others an open ended question I got the same answer from the sheriff as well as from the mayor, “what is the problem here?
‘They were straight forward and emphatic. They said we have a problem with mental health illness in this community. Then they elaborated on the magnitude of the mental health challenges they are facing and the need for more mental health support in this region,’ he said.
