Austin Protest Homicide

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Pstmstr

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Yes, from everything I have ever learned about public carry, firearms-related self-defense, etc., this portion was a bad shoot.

What’s bad about it. Reports indicate the dead guy pointed a rifle and the guy in the car shot him.
 

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"Austin Police Chief Brian Manley says that’s when the driver fired five shots from inside the vehicle, hitting Foster multiple times. Foster never fired a shot. Another protester then shot at the car three times, but did not hit anyone.

Manley says officers detained both shooters but later released both men, including the driver they say shot and killed Foster."

Why would they release the guy that shot at the car three times??????
Because the sanctuary city of Austin, Texas is not going to hold anyone committing a crime these days. Pretty much like all of the socialist overrun, antifa driven culture that exists in Austin, Texas these days.
 

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What’s bad about it. Reports indicate the dead guy pointed a rifle and the guy in the car shot him.

I'm talking about the guy who was uninvolved but decided to draw his weapon and fire indiscriminately at a fleeing vehicle. Pretty hard to claim self-defense in that scenario, and trying to claim you were trying to protect the public is hard when you fire three shots in a protest in a crowded street at a vehicle and don't even hit the vehicle. Where did those three bullets go????
 

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I'm talking about the guy who was uninvolved but decided to draw his weapon and fire indiscriminately at a fleeing vehicle. Pretty hard to claim self-defense in that scenario, and trying to claim you were trying to protect the public is hard when you fire three shots in a protest in a crowded street at a vehicle and don't even hit the vehicle. Where did those three bullets go????
I sure agree with you on that and attempted an answer in my prior post. That guy should have definitely been arrested held on charges. I have often wondered like you where those 3 bullets went. I guess we were just lucky that none of them hit anything important. But, they won't do anything to him.
 

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I'm talking about the guy who was uninvolved but decided to draw his weapon and fire indiscriminately at a fleeing vehicle. Pretty hard to claim self-defense in that scenario, and trying to claim you were trying to protect the public is hard when you fire three shots in a protest in a crowded street at a vehicle and don't even hit the vehicle. Where did those three bullets go????
Ah, that’s happened a couple of times now.
 

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If one of us were in a car that was stopped or parked and someone came up with a rifle I think the prudent thing would be to react as did the driver. He was legally carrying under Texas law unless he was an ex-felon and the guy with th rifle...
 

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I'm thinking the guy that shot at the car but didn't hit anyone (in the car) at least hit the car. That's where the three shots ended up and not in the crowd.
 

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Bad situation all around. Don't point a gun at anything you don't want to destroy, Garrett Foster.

OK, we know Daniel Perry killed Foster for pointing a gun at him while protesters were surounding and beating on his car and Foster pointed a gun at Perry.
We know Perry is a war veteran in Afghanistan. He's an active duty Sgt. with the First Air Cav. He was on his job as a driver with a rideshare company and just dropped off the passenger. He turns a corner and drives into a situation the protesters created.

What do we know about Foster?

It kinda looks to me like a low trained person met a high trained person and the low trained person made a deadly mistake.
 
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IF he pointed the AK at him, he got what he deserved. Period.

If you are part of a 'protest' and you go around as part of a crowd and you are part of a crowd that is surrounding cars in the road and you participate in the surrounding of cars in the road and the crowd is beating on a car in the road that is trying to traverse a street and you participate in all this activity AND you point your rifle at the car (allegedly)...

You might get shot dead.

Especially in Texas.

Look at how the thousands upon thousands of armed protesters handled themselves in Virginia. Did they point their weapons at anyone and get shot dead? No.

You go out to a 'protest' armed with an AK and you don't take some steps to try to behave responsibly...

You might get shot dead.

Especially in Texas.
 

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