[AGL] good candidate for a Darwin Award

[Michael Eisenstadt]

I am learning more and more about the demise of Garrett Foster. Where 
was it reported that the black fiancee was a quadruple amputee? Or are 
you just kidding. She was fairly nice looking and was very happy in the 
picture.
Was she also at the demonstration? In a wheel chair?

On 7/27/2020 5:53 PM, Frances Morey wrote:
> Thanks, Michael for enlarging on the reportage that came out of this 
> incident. Yes, you carry an AR-anything to a crowd event and if I had 
> a side arm I might just shoot you myself. The beautiful woman who was 
> his fiance was handicapped being a quadra-amputee. That is most 
> unusual as well and more will be written about this no doubt.
> Best,
> Frances
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 4:54 PM kathleen <kdoyle1 at austin.rr.com 
> <mailto:kdoyle1 at austin.rr.com>> wrote:
>
>     Umm, Mike the killer claims he felt threatened and that Garret was
>     pointing weapon at him.. and therefore he picked up the handy
>     loaded gun he had at  his side and shot Garret 3 times. Witnesses
>     say otherwise. It sounds to me like a George Zimmerman defense.
>     Rehearsed, too.
>
>     "Witnesses have told reporters that Foster kept his rifle pointed
>     at the ground as he approached the vehicle, and that he was not
>     the only protester carrying a firearm during the march. They say
>     that the driver pointed a handgun through the car window and fired
>     at Foster. Witness Michael Capochiano told the New York /Times/
>     <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/26/us/austin-shooting-texas-protests.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytnational> that
>     Foster “was not aiming the gun or doing anything aggressive with
>     the gun.”
>
>         He was not holding it in an aggressive manner. I’m not sure if
>         there was much of an exchange of words. It wasn’t like there
>         was any sort of verbal altercations. He wasn’t charging at the
>         car. He was just walking over there.
>
>     Capochiano said that he did not see the driver fire at anyone
>     other than Foster. He also said that when the driver originally
>     surged through the intersection, “You could hear the wheels
>     squealing from hitting the accelerator so fast … I’m a little
>     surprised that nobody got hit.”"
>
>>     On Jul 27, 2020, at 4:19 PM, Michael Eisenstadt
>>     <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com <mailto:eisenstadt0 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     To call attention to her race, Garrett Foster being a red-headed
>>     white. Just imagine the children they won't have.
>
>     Why would you say something so mean and ugly? If they wanted
>     children it is tragic they didn’t get to have them. And, they most
>     likely  would have been beautiful.
>>
>>     On 7/27/2020 3:50 PM, Charles Loving wrote:
>>>     Why didn't you just say the woman in the photo instead of making
>>>     it racial?
>>>
>>>     On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 2:50 PM Michael Eisenstadt
>>>     <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com <mailto:eisenstadt0 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Gent name of Garrett Foster was shot dead 2 nights ago about
>>>         5 blocks from here on Congress Ave. He was protesting
>>>         against . . . you name it . . . and as protesters in Texas
>>>         have taken to doing, they are open carrying guns - - which
>>>         is legal in Texas - -  to protect themselves against . . .
>>>         who knows? Maybe anti-protester backwoods types in pickup
>>>         trucks. A SUV drove towards the protesters and Garret who
>>>         skipped gun training on the wrong day pointed the AR-15
>>>         rifle he was carrying at the car . . . why? In his dim brain
>>>         perhaps he thought he was protecting himself, aiming, /not
>>>         /shooting. The gent in the SUV seeing an AR-14 pointed at
>>>         him did what any cop or anyone trained in guns would do: he
>>>         /immediately/ dropped the guy pointing the rifle at him with
>>>         /his/ gun in an instinctive act of self-protection lest he
>>>         die in a hail of bullets. We are told the shooter who was
>>>         apprehended is "cooperating" with the police.
>>>
>>>         The black woman in the photo is Garrett's financee.
>>>
>>>         I nominate Garrett Foster for a Darwin Award for his
>>>         negative genetic contribution to the human race.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     -- 
>>>     Charlie Loving
>>
>

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