An armed Texas protester was shot dead at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Austin Saturday night.<br />According to Newser, a car drove into the crowd of demonstrators, then the driver apparently opened fire on him.<br />Garrett Foster, 28, was approaching the stopped vehicle with other activists when he was killed.<br />Foster is white. He was pushing his fiancee—Whitney Mitchell, a quadruple amputee who is black—in a wheelchair when the car bore down on the crowd.<br />Witnesses say the US military veteran was armed with an AK-47, which he had pointed at the ground.<br />Liberal Texas gun laws allow gun-rights supporters to carry rifles at protests. Activists on the left and right are known to do it.
