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Moment armed BLM protester approaches car with his rifle during Austin protest march before being shot dead by the driver who has been released from custody after pleading self-defense
UK Daily Mail ^ | July 27, 2020 | Luke Kenton and Chris Pleasance

Posted on 07/27/2020 9:44:52 AM PDT by C19fan

The moment leading up to the fatal shooting of an armed Black Lives Matter protester in Texas over the weekend has been revealed in a newly surfaced photograph, hours after the suspect was released from custody having told investigators he shot the demonstrator in self-defense. Garrett Foster, 28, was shot dead in Austin on Saturday evening after he confronted the driver of a car who had driven his vehicle toward a hundred-strong crowd of protesters marching in the city center. Foster, who was carrying an AK-47, was shot three times by the driver who then fled the scene. The motorist later told police he fired his handgun at Foster after the activist pointed his assault rifle at his car.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: antifa; austin; banglist; blm; didyousearch; garrettfoster; texas
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1 posted on 07/27/2020 9:44:52 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

In Texas, unlike in Afghanistan under the Kenyan, you do not have to wait to be shot at to defend yourself.


2 posted on 07/27/2020 9:47:30 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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You put your wheelchaired bound fiancee in the middle of a violent riot and then tried to “protect” her? With an AR-15? By pointing at folks?

Stupid doesn’t even begin to describe it.

“Witnesses say Foster died trying to protect his wheelchair-bound fiancee after a car drove at them...”


3 posted on 07/27/2020 9:50:10 AM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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The video does not show that


4 posted on 07/27/2020 9:51:22 AM PDT by joshua c
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He he’d stayed home all those weeks, instead of being a dummy and protesting with Commies, he’d be alive.


5 posted on 07/27/2020 9:55:41 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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He’s white, so why should it matter?

“Marchers carried signs reading ‘Justice for Garrett’”

He got justice. He pointed his AK-47 in the direction of a gun-carrying Texan and got the justice he deserved. Sorry if you can’t deal with that.


6 posted on 07/27/2020 9:56:03 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Face masks are simply mouth diapers for liberals.)
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One thing for sure if you’re one of these rioting / protesting kids

you should definitely not show up with a weapon

Soon as you have a weapon anybody can shoot you


7 posted on 07/27/2020 9:57:40 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump pence II!)
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To: C19fan

Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes.

Or, stupid is as stupid does.

No great loss here.


8 posted on 07/27/2020 9:58:16 AM PDT by Vitesse
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Justice for Garrett

He got some “frontier justice” because regular law and order was absent.

9 posted on 07/27/2020 10:01:25 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: C19fan

The BLM protester must have come from outside of Texas. A Texan would know that pointing a firearm at a Texan will get you shot; and killed.


10 posted on 07/27/2020 10:02:29 AM PDT by WASCWatch
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To: C19fan
The article title should say:

Moment armed BLM protester approaches car with his rifle in the ready position pointing at the driver, during Austin protest march before being shot dead by the driver who has been released from custody after pleading self-defense

I would have shot the protestor too. Self Defense.
11 posted on 07/27/2020 10:02:55 AM PDT by DEPcom
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The article does:

“The motorist later told police he fired his handgun at Foster after the activist pointed his assault rifle at his car.”


12 posted on 07/27/2020 10:02:57 AM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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AK-47 commie rifle, not an AR-15. Commie pointing the commie rifle is dead now. Happy ending.


13 posted on 07/27/2020 10:03:11 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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AK variant. So now dead guy didn’t fire 5 rounds? One panty-fah down plenty to go.


14 posted on 07/27/2020 10:03:32 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Luckily, the guy shot was White. Now, nobody will care.


15 posted on 07/27/2020 10:04:04 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
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I read earlier today she is a quadruple amputee! Who would take such a handicapped person to a riot? What a cruel bastard.


16 posted on 07/27/2020 10:04:58 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Caption from one of the photos: “Shelia Foster, Garrett’s mother, said her son had previously served in the military and described him as a man committed to social justice, who had peacefully protested almost every night for the past 50 days with Mitchell”

So where did get the money to pay for his “social justice” lifestyle? His mom? Supporting a grown man? Yea, that’ll teach him self dependence and get him out of the house.


17 posted on 07/27/2020 10:07:14 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Where do you find the word "except" in the 2nd Amendment?)
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Now dead guy’s comment from a couple days ago - good riddance.

18 posted on 07/27/2020 10:07:37 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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"“Witnesses say Foster died trying to protect his wheelchair-bound fiancee..."

Witnesses say Foster died was made good trying to protect his wheelchair-bound fiancee...

19 posted on 07/27/2020 10:07:41 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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“Witnesses say Foster died trying to protect his wheelchair-bound fiancee after a car drove at them...”

Complete BS. The vehicle was stopped. The Agitators "protestors" were pounding on the vehicle as Foster approached with his rifle.

I doubt even an Austin Grand Jury will indict the driver.

Of what? Failing to bow down to BLM protestors who blocked the road, then attacked his vehicle and threatened him with a rifle?

20 posted on 07/27/2020 10:09:41 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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