Chi-Town, stand up!
On Thursday night, shortly after the tragic shooting that took place in Dallas, former Congressman Joe Walsh jumped on Twitter and told President Obama and all of the "black lives matter punks" that they need to "watch out" because "real America is coming after you."
After deleting the tweet—er, or did Twitter delete the tweet for him?—Walsh tried to clarify his comments by saying that he "wasn't calling for violence":
But Bucks forward and Chicago native Jabari Parker didn't want to hear any of it. He responded to Walsh's tweet a short time later and told him that he wasn't going to be able to put "a single finger on Barack Obama":
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Parker was quick to point out that he didn't mean his tweet as a threat:
But he made his point. Simply put, Parker was coming to the defense of his President and expressing his frustrations with what Walsh and others like him are saying right now.
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