Driver ‘who fatally shot protester Garrett Foster incited violence by accelerating car into BLM crowd’
THE driver who allegedly shot dead protester Garrett Foster incited the violence by accelerating towards the crowd, a witness has claimed.
Foster, who was armed with an AK-47, was shot three times and killed just moments after pushing his fiancée in a wheelchair at a protest in Austin on July 25.
Witnesses backed up the claim that Foster approached the vehicle with his rifle, however one witness says he did not incite the violence, but the driver did.
"I want to be very clear that the driver incited the violence," James Sasinowski told . "He accelerated into the crowd of people and he shot first."
"Whitney is not good. Heartbroken is not enough to describe her," Kirven said. "She'f just broke because he's been. apart of her life for more than 10 years. She lost all four limbs, he was her other limb and they took him away from her."
The couple was planning to get married after Mitchell was able to master her prosthetics.
According to Kirven, they were out protesting as they dealt with racism regularly as an interracial couple.
"They wanted to give back and help people," she said. "They didn't go there to start any trouble. They went there because they really believed in the cause. They weren't there to destroy statues or property."