#BREAKING
One person reportedly shot to death at the #BlackLivesMatter
protest in downtown Austin tonight:
https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/downtown-austin-shooting-congress-sixth-street/269-9cd396c1-169c-45be-9529-c1e4662f838e …
Neither the identities of the victim nor the shooter have been reported.
You can hear the gunshots in this video: https://twitter.com/anthonyfartino/status/1287223265631576067 …
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The
@statesman is reporting one dead, multiple injuries at#BlackLivesMatter
protest in Austin.
One protester says the gunman charged into the crowd and began shooting protesters.
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Leah McElrath 🏳️🌈 Retweeted Austin Chronicle
Austin Chronicle reporting the gunman pulled up in a car and opened fire on the
#BlackLivesMatter
protesters:https://twitter.com/austinchronicle/status/1287228822996365312 …Leah McElrath 🏳️🌈 added,
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Leah McElrath 🏳️🌈 Retweeted Austin Police Department
Austin Police confirming the fatality and calling the shooting death a “homicide”:https://twitter.com/austin_police/status/1287236449172164609 …
Leah McElrath 🏳️🌈 added,
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Just want to observe that—other than the Austin media—the first out talking about this shooting were these right-wing, bloodthirsty Putin-lackeys. They love this. Fucking ghouls.pic.twitter.com/A2C3uRB6V0
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Report from Austin eyewitness to
@MoseBuchele says the car was trying to speed through protesters almost running people over, man approached car saying, “Hey just don’t do that you’re going to get somebody hurt,” and the person in the car rolled their window down and opened fire:pic.twitter.com/h7RXVwpahB
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It’s remarkable and infuriating that the Austin
#BlackLivesMatter
protest was flanked by police but the officers either couldn’t or wouldn’t stop a person from first using their vehicle as a weapon against and then opening fire upon unarmed protesters and killing someone.26 replies 133 retweets 311 likesShow this thread -
Leah McElrath 🏳️🌈 Retweeted Path Defiant
I’m seeing this reported widely by people who reportedly knew them: The man shot to death at the Austin
#BlackLivesMatter
protest was Garrett Foster.
He was there with his wife, Whitney Mitchell, for whom he was a caregiver. She is a quadrapalegichttps://twitter.com/checkback/status/1287254253720031233 …Leah McElrath 🏳️🌈 added,
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Garrett Foster and Whitney Mitchell. May Garrett rest in peace and power.
#BlackLivesMatter
pic.twitter.com/c1NKeFknpy
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Foster or Morris? This guy was IDed earlier in the day as Garrett Morris, but the person who took the pic might have gotten the name wrong. Apparently he still had the AK on him at the time of the shooting. Jumped in front of his wife, shot at least 3 times at point blank range.pic.twitter.com/fsq0DFGKFX
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