Garrett Foster Brought His Gun to Austin Protests. Then He Was Shot Dead.

LV426 said:
The scumbag who shot him deliberately chose to insert himself into this situation, and intended to cause a disturbance.

Why else would he had driven all the way to a protest if not to cause harm?

Everyone in Austin knew where the protests were happening; this murderer knew that too and drove to one with the intention to disrupt it in some way.
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The rioters do not own the roadway.
 
LV426 said:
No, the car approached THEM.

The murderer didn't have to choose to drive to that protest; he did so with the intention to cause a disruption.

Austin is an easy city to move around in, and it's a grid, so the murderer could have taken myriad different routes if he wasn't out with the intention of driving to that protest.
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The rioters do not own the roadway.
 
LV426 said:
There's video of the MAGAs brandishing weapons, but there's no video of this guy brandishing his weapon.

Eyewitness accounts say the rifle was pointed at the ground, and the murderer fired from the safety of his car.
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The car was not 'safety'. It was being attacked by a mob.
 
LV426 said:
We've been calling for gun control but you don't want to talk about it because you're a pussy who cannot defend his arguments.
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Assumption of victory fallacy. The 2nd amendment is very clear. The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed. The right of a State to form militias shall not be infringed. The Texas State constitution is very clear. The right of self defense is inherent, both for States and for people.
 
The point of the Into the Night sock is to derail threads Conservatives lost control of, or to hijack threads that aren't going their way.
 
LV426 said:
Like the Conservative "very fine people" who was so alarmed by protesters, he drove through a crowd of them, killing one?

Why did the shooter not just roll up the windows and put the car in reverse to drive away? Instead, the driver escalated the conflict and killed someone.
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He drove on the streets where cars belong and people do not.

Why don't the protesters get the fuck out of the streets.
 
LV426 said:
Or maybe you just don't go there in the first place to put yourself in that position? Why was that not an option? The murderer didn't have to drive to the protest, he made a choice to. The murderer didn't have to drive into the crowd, he made the choice to. The murderer didn't have to pull his gun and shoot, he made a choice to.

This "panic" defense didn't work for the "very fine person" in Charlottesville.

So it would seem the murderer made all the wrong choices, so he should be held to account for them.
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Or, maybe you blunder into it because the protesters don't have a permit, and are in a place that's not known to the driver. Aside from that, the mob started beating on and rocking the vehicle instead of making a path for it. When an obviously armed individual wearing a bandana over his face and carrying a visible AK-47 approached the vehicle the owner reasonably assumed their like was threatened and shot the moron.

This is on the mob, not the vehicle driver.
 
Darth Omar said:
I grimace every time I see those idiots do that.

No one has *any idea* whether occupants in a random vehicle are armed or not; they can’t know the state of mind of the driver and/or how they will react while being assaulted from outside their vehicle.

It amazes me that these incidents don’t produce more casualties.
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But that's how violent mobs act. They get what they deserve most of the time for it as well, just as they did here.
 
volsrock said:
AUSTIN, Texas — It was not unusual for Garrett Foster to be at a protest against police brutality on a Saturday night. And it was not out of character for him to be armed as he marched.

Foster was carrying an AK-47 rifle as he joined a Black Lives Matter demonstration blocks from the state Capitol in Austin, Texas. Gun-rights supporters on both the left and the right often carry rifles at protests in Texas, a state whose liberal gun laws allow it.

Foster, wearing a black bandanna and a baseball cap, bumped into an independent journalist at the march Saturday, and he spoke matter-of-factly about the weapon that was draped on a strap in front of him.

“They don’t let us march in the streets anymore, so I got to practice some of our rights,” Foster told the journalist, Hiram Gilberto Garcia, who was broadcasting the interview live on Periscope. “If I use it against the cops, I’m dead,” he conceded.

Later that night, Foster was fatally shot, but not by police. Authorities said he was killed by a motorist who had a confrontation with protesters.

Police and witnesses said the man in the car turned it aggressively toward the marchers, and Foster then approached it. The driver opened fire, shooting Foster three times. He was rushed to a hospital and was later pronounced dead.

Austin’s police chief, Brian Manley, told reporters Sunday that as the motorist turned, a crowd of protesters surrounded the vehicle, and some struck the car. The driver, whose name has not been released, then opened fire from inside the car as Foster approached. Another person in the crowd pulled out a handgun and shot at the vehicle as it sped away.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/garrett-foster-brought-gun-austin-114325700.html

A happy ending!

Hint to the idiot...do not block traffic and approch cars while holding a gun
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The Thinning of the Herd.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Or, maybe you blunder into it because the protesters don't have a permit, and are in a place that's not known to the driver.
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Eyewitnesses say the driver turned into their protest, not the other way around.

He drove there with the intent to disrupt the protest.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Aside from that, the mob started beating on and rocking the vehicle instead of making a path for it.
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How do you know that?

Do you have access to a video that we don't?

Or are you just making an assumption because you can't bring yourself to admit that guy drove there with the intent to kill someone?
 
LV426 said:
Eyewitnesses say the driver turned into their protest, not the other way around.

He drove there with the intent to disrupt the protest.
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If the "protesters" were in the streets where they didn't belong, get the fuck out.
 
LV426 said:
How do you know that?

Do you have access to a video that we don't?

Or are you just making an assumption because you can't bring yourself to admit that guy drove there with the intent to kill someone?
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Do you have proof that was his intent? Video? Audio?
 
T. A. Gardner said:
When an obviously armed individual wearing a bandana over his face and carrying a visible AK-47 approached the vehicle the owner reasonably assumed their like was threatened and shot the moron.

This is on the mob, not the vehicle driver.
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Eyewitnesses say the victim had the rifle pointed at the ground, and Texas is an open carry state.

So...unless you have a video or proof that shows otherwise, the shooter premeditated this murder because he drove there with the intent.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
But that's how violent mobs act. They get what they deserve most of the time for it as well, just as they did here.
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Eyewitnesses say the murderer turned into the protest, and the victim was pointing the rifle at the ground.

Texas is an open carry state, so you can't use the fact that the victim was armed with a gun as a panic defense.
 
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