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Leftist Protestor Shot and Killed by Driver in Austin as Crowd Blocked Intersection
[GatewayPundit] UPDATE: Austin Police say that the man who was shot was carrying a rifle and may have approached the vehicle.A protester has been shot and killed in Austin, Texas, by a driver whose car had been blocked in at an intersection. "Someone got out of their car and shot one of the protesters," the livestreamer said. Update from PJ Media at 2:30 p.m. EDT: Congress Ave. is the city’s main downtown north-and-south artery. Sixth Street is Austin’s famed bar and live music drag and that area is the city’s major downtown entertainment district. Some downtown bars and restaurants have reopened in recent weeks, though all are struggling with the pandemic restrictions and the protests sometimes making it all but impossible to conduct normal business.One witness says the car “sped” toward the protesters, according to the Austin American-Statesman. According to a witness, the incident began when the driver on Fourth Street honked, turned right and sped down Congress, driving through the crowd. He appeared to hit an orange barrier in the road and came to a stop, said Michael Capochiano, who attended the protest. “There were people around the car, yelling, and people sounding like they were frightened,” Capochiano said. A protester with a rifle approached the car, and the driver pointed his gun outside the window, Capochiano said. The driver fired several shots, then sped away, he said. The man with the rifle “dropped to the ground when he got shot,” Capochiano said. If this was a typical Austin protest, it did not have a permit and any blocking of streets was not sanctioned. Protesters have tended to take over streets on their own, preventing residents and visitors who have nothing to do with the protests from accessing streets or the businesses on them. According to a source with knowledge of the events that transpired Saturday night, the protesters surrounded the wrong car. The driver was armed, as is legal in Texas, and fired when the man with the rifle approached the driver’s car and pointed his gun at the car window. The driver was detained and according to APD, is cooperating with police.
Posted by: Cromoth Sheatch5463 2020-07-26 |
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