Story highlights "All those protesters last night, they ran the other way, expecting the men and women in blue" to protect them, Patrick said

Patrick later told CNN's Jim Sciutto that he was frustrated that police don't receive more support

Washington (CNN) Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Friday walked back his remark that protesters who fled gunfire in Dallas were "hypocrites" because they wanted police to protect them despite their outrage over recent killings of black men by cops.

"All those protesters last night, they ran the other way, expecting the men and women in blue to turn around and protect them. What hypocrites," Patrick said on Fox News earlier Friday. "I understand the First Amendment. I understand freedom of speech and I defend it. It is in our Constitution and is in our soul, but you can't go out on social media and mainstream media and everywhere else and say that the police are racist or the police are hateful or the police are killers."

Patrick blamed civil rights leader Jesse Jackson and Black Lives Matter activists for the mayhem Thursday night.

"And I do blame people on social media with their hatred towards police. I do blame -- I saw Jesse Jackson, I think it, was on Fox the other night, calling police racist without any facts," the Republican told Fox News' Harris Faulkner. "I do blame former Black Lives Matter protesters. Last night was peaceful but others have not been, and we heard "pigs in a blanket."

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