TX: one dead at shooting during police protest in downtown Austin tonight

[RoyGBiv]

Here's a short interview with the deceased from the night of the event.

Language warning.....

[cirus]

Sounds like he found that one person who was not to big of a $&#%$ to do something about it.

[Paladin]

There's a thread on ar15.com from his former leadership. Sounded like he was a dud, but not evil at that time in his life. Apparently he "protested" consecutively for the past 50 days.

I'll look that up. I would say its less about being evil, and more about not having the "saga of self" fulfilled.

For him, I would say BLM was an attempt to recreate his AF time with a new ending. An environment of belonging to a movement greater than himself, camraderie, his willingness to be seen as "extreme", and the external admiration he would receive caring for his girlfriend, all developing this "Paladin" personna.

AF guys I know don't walk American streets threatening people with AK's or riot for 50 days in a row. We can only speculate as to his motivation. I imagine him as simply one of George Soro's useful idiots, a FULL-TIME "protester", almost certainly paid a full-time salary to cause insurrection and unrest.

[Paladin]

Here's a short interview with the deceased from the night of the event.

Language warning.....

Breaking this video down, Foster felt it was his "right" to march in the streets and block traffic... wanted to kill cops with his AK, but knew he would die if he did... and was actively intending to intimidate anyone who disagreed with ANTIFA/BLM. Now he's a dead terrorist.

[Paladin]

The driver would have had no more than an instant to see the man approaching with the rifle, hear and feel the crowd pounding on the car, and react. Anyone who has followed the protests over the past two months would be aware that protesters have surrounded vehicles, pounded on them with fists and weapons, dragged people from cars, smashed car windows, and shot drivers as well. Austin’s protests have turned violent multiple times in recent weeks.

Additionally, the protest Saturday night had no permit from the city. The protesters hijacked the streets illegally. This is important both to the status of the protesters — they were not marching legally — and the driver — they had no reason to expect a legal march on the public thoroughfare, and had the legal right to be on that street at that time.

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Foster was at every one of those violent "protests" in Austin (50 "protests" in 50 days) and was upset his friend got arrested at one of the riots. You just can't put enough lipstick on that to cover up the fact that Foster was a professional rioter.

Some examples of recent "peaceful protests" in Austin:

A least one downtown Austin shop was looted late Saturday as remnants of earlier crowds protesting police violence set multiple fires and harassed Austin police officers and firefighters.

A mob raided the wares of Private Stock Premium Boutique on Sixth Street about 11 p.m. The store carries fashion street clothes, including T-shirts and shoes priced for hundreds of dollars.

“Hey y’all, that’s a black-owned business,” someone in the crowd shouted as thieves kicked in doors and windows and ran away with armfuls of merchandise....Some hurled water bottles at officers, as well as angry words...Texas Department of Public Safety troopers worked with Austin police officers to repeatedly remove crowds of protesters from blocking traffic on I-35 across from the Police Department building.

Crowds blocked I-35 several times throughout the day, and authorities warned motorists to avoid downtown and find alternate routes. About 6 p.m., one crowd walked aimlessly down Eighth Street, vandalizing businesses with spray paint as they headed north. Once they reached the governor’s mansion on 10th Street, demonstrators used parking cones to break the the windows of two empty DPS patrol vehicles.

The group made its way to City Hall, where protests blocked traffic on West Cesar Chavez Street. The crowd eventually took over the Congress Avenue bridge, again preventing vehicles from passing.

Austin-Travis County EMS Captain Darren Noak said medics responded to about 10 calls for service related to the downtown Austin protests.A least one demonstrator was arrested at the Capitol about 3 p.m., part of an earlier group of demonstrators that split from the group protesting at police headquarters. While at the Capitol, some protesters defaced the building with spray paint, scrawling “FTP” and other anti-police phrases. Troopers tackled one suspected vandal to the ground after he briefly fled.

For roughly two minutes police tried to restrain him as protesters surrounded the scene. One bystander attempted to lift an officer off of the suspect and then outran the officers who tried to catch him....At one point, a man on a motorcycle tried to drive through a crowd of protesters on the northbound frontage road. The motorcyclist was ripped from his vehicle and beaten.

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[Paladin]

This is why Foster was carrying his AK-47. He was upset that he and his Marxist friends couldn't block the highway again:

Sunday protests in Austin see I-35 blocked again, more standoffs with police{May 31}

You see, in his mind he was entitled to block the roads.

[philip964]

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local ... z-8WrJByPc

Austin mayor speaks- too many guns on the street.

[Paladin]

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local ... z-8WrJByPc

Austin mayor speaks- too many guns on the street.

Gotcha! it's the guns fault. According to the Austin mayor, rioting is ok then?

[philip964]

Here's a short interview with the deceased from the night of the event.

Language warning.....

Breaking this video down, Foster felt it was his "right" to march in the streets and block traffic... wanted to kill cops with his AK, but knew he would die if he did... and was actively intending to intimidate anyone who disagreed with ANTIFA/BLM. Now he's a dead terrorist.

So is this guy a candidate for the eye test. Looks like it to me.

[03Lightningrocks]

The whole short interview smells fishy, he sounds like an instigator.
"Why'd you start carrying?" "My roommate got arrested"
Nonsensical answers to justify what, his thirst for violence and blood?
Does anybody else see the idiocy in his words and actions?

Rage of the Random Actor, by Dan Korem. Good read.

Foster apparently only had 2 of his 4 years in the AF before being separated.

He, by statements of a SSGT stationed with him, was mediocre, at best. Seemed to have difficulty assimilating to the culture.

Stayed with his GF, after her traumatic experience- good. Could not find a job/profession that offered better benefits more than her disability payments and what he received as her caretaker- bad.

Little dude had massively underfilled ambition, felt under appreciated, hated those with authority he linged for (cheered on Portland protesters using lasers to blind Fed/LE officers), but lacked the initiative and self-discipline to become more than he was. You could also say he lacked the humility to start at the bottom, and work his way up.

Sounds like the typical democrat. Thinks the world owes him something.

[Paladin]

The whole short interview smells fishy, he sounds like an instigator.
"Why'd you start carrying?" "My roommate got arrested"
Nonsensical answers to justify what, his thirst for violence and blood?
Does anybody else see the idiocy in his words and actions?

Rage of the Random Actor, by Dan Korem. Good read.

Foster apparently only had 2 of his 4 years in the AF before being separated.

He, by statements of a SSGT stationed with him, was mediocre, at best. Seemed to have difficulty assimilating to the culture.

Stayed with his GF, after her traumatic experience- good. Could not find a job/profession that offered better benefits more than her disability payments and what he received as her caretaker- bad.

Little dude had massively underfilled ambition, felt under appreciated, hated those with authority he linged for (cheered on Portland protesters using lasers to blind Fed/LE officers), but lacked the initiative and self-discipline to become more than he was. You could also say he lacked the humility to start at the bottom, and work his way up.

Sounds like the typical democrat. Thinks the world owes him something.

Certainly a Low Conscientiousness type which is the foundation of Marxists. They don't want to work for what they want, but instead take what other people have.

[Beiruty]

The ugly marxsit communists head is rearing up again in the US. BLM/NFAC/ANTIFA are becoming the new domestic enemy of USA
Riots and looting should not be tolerated anywhere in US.