Ted Cruz, advertising attack on Twitter is a viral video of Beto O'Rourke

One of the US Senate candidates in Texas on Friday tweeted a video of Beto O'Rourke talking passionately about the assassination of Botham Shem Jean at his home by a police officer and calling for justice. This candidate was Ted Cruz.

The Republican Senator frowned after Friday he posted a video on Twitter showing O'Rourke, his Democratic rival, talking to a crowd about John's murder. On September 6, Jean, a 26-year-old black man, was killed by police officer Amber Guyger in his own Dallas apartment, after claiming she had entered by mistake, considering it his home.

"In Beto O'Rourke's own words," Cruz tweeted, linking to a video of O'Rourke speaking in a Dallas church after the shoot, saying:

How is it that today, in this same year, in this community, a young African American man in his own apartment is killed by a policeman? And when we all want justice, the facts and information make an informed decision, what is made public? That he had a small amount of marijuana in his kitchen. How can this be right in this country? How can we continue to lose the lives of unarmed black men in the United States of America in the hands of white police? This is not justice. It is not us It can and must change. Are you with me on that?

It is not entirely clear what Cruz was trying to do with the video, which among many Liberals had become another viral extract of O'Rourke speaking to his supporters on the campaign trail. Before sharing it, Cruz in another tweet stated that O'Rourke, currently a member of the House of Representatives, "took sides against the police".

If what he was trying to say was that O'Rourke was anti-law enforcement, it's a strange way to do it. The legislator in the clip calls for justice for an unarmed black man who was killed sitting at home in his own apartment, doing absolutely nothing wrong. And he mentioned a huge problem in the United States regarding police brutality and racial disparities in law enforcement, not attacks on police officers.

Some people on Twitter have made fun of Cruz's tweet as a non-deaf error. "Senator, you are a great master of self-ownership," actor Michael McKean tweeted.

John Ziegler, a media columnist, called the tweet "terribly bad in itself".

Others, however, pointed to the racial nuances of Cruz's tweet: Because, except for the fact that he was actually trying to stimulate his opponent, Cruz apparently suggested that O 'Rourke had been wrong to Call for justice for a black man without weapons fired at his home by a white police officer.

Cruz was attentive to his remarks about the murder of Jean. He blamed O'Rourke and the other Democrats for being "too quick to blame the police officer," even though Guyger was charged with manslaughter and admitted to killing Jean, though she says that the shooting was accidental.

In an interview with Fox 26 Houston earlier this month, Cruz used bizarre terms about the shooting, saying that "the individual" – Jean – was "at home in his apartment and was found murdered ". "And called shooting a" tragic situation. "

O'Rourke wants to talk about racial injustice. Cruz seems to want to appeal to racists.

Cruz gave no explanation for tweeting O'Rourke's video, nor did he delete it. He followed with several tweets support the application of the law. He seems to be trying to point out a line of demarcation between the blacks and the police and indicates that he is clearly on the side of the police – even if they are wrong.

For O'Rourke, racial injustice has been an important topic of discussion in his campaign. A video of him talking about black NFL players kneeling in the national anthem protesting racial injustice became viral during the summer.

As Vox's Tara Golshan wrote, from the beginning of a debate with Cruz on Friday, O'Rourke made it clear he was talking to people of color in Texas. "O'Rourke has talked directly about police brutality, gun control, the legalization of marijuana, the opioid crisis, or his own arrest for impaired driving. racial injustice was one of its highest priorities. "

During the debate, he was also asked about Jean. His answer could be a follow-up video of Cruz:

With the tragic death of the gunfire, you have another unarmed black man killed in this country by the forces of order. No member of the security forces wants this to happen. No member of this community wants this to happen. We must do something better than we have done so far.

African Americans make up 13% of the population of this country. They represent one third of those who are shot by the forces of the order. We have something wrong. If we have the largest prison population on the planet and it is made up of people of color, we have something wrong with this country.