Washington (CNN)Former
Rep. Joe Walsh is under fire after deleting a tweet saying "This is now
war" against President Barack Obama and Black Lives Matter protesters
following the killing of Dallas police officers.
"3
Dallas Cops killed, 7 wounded. This is now war. Watch out Obama. Watch
out black lives matter punks. Real America is coming after you," tweeted
Walsh, a former tea party congressman from Illinois and now a
conservative talk radio host.
New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg spotted the deletion early Friday morning and urged people to retweet it.
"Joe Walsh decided to delete this
tweet. So let's all retweet it," Rosenberg tweeted. By 8 a.m. ET Friday
morning, it had been retweeted more than 20,000 times.
Walsh later explained on
Twitter, early Friday morning, that, "I wasn't calling for violence,
against Obama or anyone. Obama's words & BLM's deeds have gotten
cops killed. Time for us to defend our cops."
Five Dallas law enforcement officers were shot and killed by snipers
at a protest over police violence in the deadliest attack on law
enforcement since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The protest was
part of a national wave spurred by back-to-back police shooting deaths
of two African-American men.
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