his name was garrett foster, and he went to the demonstration with his wheelchair bound fiancee.as legally carrying an ak-47 style rifle. something he was interviewed about on social media. take a listen. >> they don't let us march in the streets any more, so we have to practice some of our rights. >> this is not the only time he did this, okay? he was known within that protest movement for coming this way. here's the salient part. at some point a car got involved in the protesters, some say it was driving through an intersection. others say it burst on to the scene. other way, foster was in a crowd of protesters that surrounded the car, then this happened. >> everybody back up. [ gunfire ] >> what do we know? s >> the driver opened fire. they told police that when they called 911, so we know that. we know someone else in the crowd also opened fire. not the man you just saw being interviewed, though. there are no reports of foster firing his weapon. all of the guns were legal, take that off the table. it's not a conversation about was it right to have the gun, wrong to have the g

according to police, a man through his car into a protest and shot garrett foster after he allegedly pointed his rifle at him. foster died at the hospital. the driver fled from the scene and called 9 one one, police taking him in, seizing his card as evidence. he is free as the investigation continues was foster's mom said he attended these protest with his wheelchair-bound fiancÉ, bringing a rifle for protection. >> never point a gun at somebody and when going to jail are getting shot, wouldn't want to leave the love of his life. >> reporter: gunfire breaking out a protest in aurora, colorado after a car drove through a large group, one protester shooting the vehicle as it sped away hitting two people. and not yet confirming the demonstrator was shot, they are causing major damage, breaking windows and starting a fire. mayor michael off says aurora can't become the next portland, make no mistake, the ones who remain behind are not protesters but using the protest as a cover. in richmond, virginia police arresting 16 people and deploying teargas, as crowds shatter windows and set a ma

omaha, nebraska, richmond, virginia, aurora, colorado, and austin, texas, where a protester named garrett foster was shot dead. foster's mother said her son was pushing his fiancee's wheelchahr when a car drove into the crowd and opened fire. we begegin today's s show in see and portland. in portland, we are joined by pastor e.d. mondaine, a civil rights activist and president of the portland, oregon, branch of the naacp. and in seattle, washington, nikkita oliver is with us, the co-executive director of creative justice. she is also an artist, attorney and a community organizer with "decriminalize seattle" and "king county equity now." we welcome you both to democracy now! nikkita oliver, let's s begin wh you. can you explain what is happening in seattle right now with president trump saying as part of this surge they have brought federal agents in on "standby"? talk about the protest this week and and what this means. >> this weekend, many people took to the streets. i want to make sure we keep the focus on black lives -- ultimatetely, people are in the streets in defense of black lives, howev

according to police there, a man drove his car into a protest and shot garrett foster after he allegedly pointed his life will at him. 28-year-old foster died at the hospital. the driver fled from the scene and then called 911 to report himself. police taking him in, seizing his car and gone as evidence. he is not free as the investigation continues. foster's mom speaking out saying he regularly attend these protests with his wheelchair-bound fiance and only brought his rifle for protecti protection. >> my son would never, ever point a gun at somebody. and risk going to jail or getting shot, because he wouldn't want to leave the love of his life helpless like she has now. >> gunfire breaking out in a protest in aurora, colorado, as well after a car drove through the large group there. one protester shooting at the vehicle as it sped away, hitting two people. police releasing a photo of a man they believe was involved in the shooting, but not yet confirming if the driver was shot. demonstrators there also causing major damage to the courthouse. breaking windows and even starting a fire in

garrett foster was fatally shot at at a police brutality protest.e up and honked the horn several time and pointed the assault rifle at the driver who in turn was shot and killed as driving away and called 911. i'm ashley strohmeyer >> welcome back stanley kurtz you talk about how biden really wants to intensify or expand what the obama biden plan was borrowing from cory booker who says we can cut off federalist road funds and of course this federalist needs -- the suburbs need road funds because a lot of people drive and there's not transportation and so on so this would affect the suburbs a great deal plus people in the suburbs are paying an awful lot of federal tax load and that means they get very little back certainly in terms of the roads. so the goal is for the federal government to compel compliance or to take money away from the suburbs but the suburbs have every right to receive because they pay into the federal till. so my question to you is, given how massively significant this is to the nature of the country, to millions of people who l

this instance, there's no probable cause when you have a bunch of witnesses around saying that garrett fostern't point his weapon at the man, and that if anything his belief was unreasonable. and they get to go home. no small irony as people are arguing for better justice, for black people in this society. very rarely you hear a story about black people going home after killing somebody. my last question to you is, i want to make sure you're sensitive to this. the police are being looked at with a lot of scrutiny these days. do you think it's the right time to put out a message like you did, hey, this is what you get? >> chris, we put -- i put that out, because i thought the community needed to know, and maybe in hindsight it wasn't the best thing to do. i stand by what i did. >> if it wasn't the best thing 20 do, why don't you not to be what foster was referring to people as, when they're too scared to do something. why don't you say, i shouldn't have done it, it's the wrong message to say anything that seems in anyway justifying violence where someone wound up dead, especially someone who r

a man shot and killed during a black lives matter protest saturday, identified as 28-year-old garrett foster colorado, a terrifying scene when someone drove a jeep into a crowd of protesters. fortunately, no one was injured. the violence only seeming to fuel president trump's verbal attacks on the protesters, even calling them terrorists last month. on sunday he tweeted, the protesters are actually anarchists who hate our country. the line of innocent mothers were a scam. those mothers, the so-called wall of moms, are real. they along with military vets in portland formed barriers around the protesters to shield them from authorities. >> having the wall of moms step up was a way to refocus attention. but the most important thing is that we are only lending our bodies to the important work that the black community has been doing. >> reporter: the presence and actions of federal paramilitary troops in portland against the wishes of city and state leaders has very much inflamed tensions. it has brought out a small group of rioters. but there are hundreds if not thousands of ordinary citizens wh

people gathered around downtown where garrett foster died.he was shot trying to stop a car from driving into a crowd of protesters. police say the driver called 911 and reported the shooting. he was released in custody after cooperating with police. lawrence jones explored race and policing in the country and joining that conversation, fox news political analyst juan williams, pushing for better leadership in the black community. >> where is the black leadership? where is the naacp, the urban league? where is black lives matter when it comes to shootings that take place inside the black community, black people killing black people? to my mind, and i've been on this bandwagon for a while, of i've wrote a book called enough, phony leader and deadened movements and it spoke to the idea is why don't you see al sharpton and jesse jackson saying we can't have the gangsters dominating our communities. jillian: tessalmos tesslan s democrats and republicans have to do much more to create actual change. >> we have these conversations on we're removing

, texas, a man shot and killed during a black lives matter saturday identified as 28-year-old garrett foster. in aurora, colorado, someone drove a jeep into a crowd of protesters. no one was injured. the violence seeming to fuel the attacks on protesters, even calling them terrorists. on sunday he tweeted the protesters are an arcists and the line of innocent mothers were part of the scam. the wall of moms are real and they, along with military vets in portland, formed barriers around the protesters to shield them from authorities. >> having the wall of moms step up was a way to refocus attention, but the most important thing is that we are only lending our bodies to the important work that the black community has been doing. >> reporter: the presence and actions of federal paramilitary troops in portland against the wishes of state and city leaders has inflamed tensions. it has brought out a small group of rioters. there are hundreds if not thousands of ordinary citizens who come here day after day to demand racial justice. their message, black lives matter. lucy cavanaugh, cnn, portland. >

. >>> a 28-year-old named garrett foster was killed during a protest in austin, texas. authorities say he was holding an ak-47 and walking toward a car. shots were fired from inside the vehicle, hitting foster. >> a car drove through a group of demonstrators in colorado. they show people scattering. as a blue jeep sped toward them, they say someone fired a weapon, striking two dead in the street and others were taken to the hospital. >>> in seattle, several these protests show lives being threatened. this video shows them having explosive devices thrown at officers during sunday's unrest. they also say nearly 60 officers were injured and nearly 50 demonstrators have been arrested. >>> causing damage to property like that is turning more people against them rather than being allies. i do not think it is a good strategy. >> destruction also in sacramento with ray pains and broken glass littering the street. 150 people were seen using metal pipes and rocks during protests the night before. >>> protesters will call for defunding the hayward police department with a car cara

the driver allegedly pulled out a gun and shot 28 year-old garrett foster he was with his longtime girlfriend when that happened activists say foster was pushing her in a wheelchair. she is a quadruple amputee and they have been together since they were children just before the shooting police say foster might have pointed his gun toward the driver at one point but believes foster did not shoot. police also say the suspect called himself in. >>among the callers austin 911 was a subject to state that they had just been involved in a shooting and driven away from the scene. >>austin police say the suspect has been released pending more investigation. >>niners player and now activists colin kaepernick and doctor anthony fauci are both slated to be among this year's recipients of the robert f kennedy human rights ripple of hope award cap'n fauci are 2 of the 5 people selected this year which honors folks who quote demonstrate a commitment to social change and have utilized their platform for the public good end quote kaepernick issued a statement saying in 2017. i was in the audience honoring mis

police say 28-year-old protester garrett foster armed, the driver fatally shot foster, the driver later called to report he shot someone. update us on the investigation and if you expect any charges. >> i don't know the answer to that. the investigation is ongoing. it is a tragic event all around. the -- everybody has the mental image of the driver in charlottesville. so when you are in that kind of situation, tragic things happen and they happened here. i'm also taken with the fact that in that split moment we had three different guns appear. two of which were fired. we have too many guns on our streets. and we need to do something about that. >> yes, so to that point, texas is an open carry state. given the fact we're in this moment in this country, highly charged climate we're in now, do you believe this is something that texas needs to re-examine? >> i believe it is. i just don't see the reason why we need people walking with high powered weapons and with guns as many as there are visibly showing in texas. i just think that it is counterproductive and will ultimately lead to people

austin authorities say garrett foster was killed when the driver of a car opened fire after a confrontationnews mora barrett has been reporting from portland. thanks so much for joining us. we appreciate it. what is the latest from the ground there and there has been a sense that some of the federal agents have royaled some of the protesters and led to an intensefying of the some of the clashes there. what are you seeing and what are you hearing? >> reporter: kristen, that is exactly what we're seeing on the ground. my team and i have been here for a week and over the weekend we saw the president tweeting about the protesters being quote violent and anarchist and i want to be clear, yes, we have seen some protesters with violent action but nothing that is going to bring this federal courthouse down. as the president and the white house have suggested. but also we have seen federal agents make violent and seemingly unwarranted arrests on people practicing civil disobedience. we've reached out to the federal agencies and have heard nothing back. and so when we're here on the ground talking to

foster. according to police, the shooter claimed garrett pointed his weapon at the car, but witnesses tell abc news they never saw him raise his rifle. and in aurora, colorado, another driver seen plowing through a crowd of people. two people hurt when police say someone fired at the vehicle trying to stop it. and here in seattle, a weekend of dangerous confrontations between protesters and police. 59 seattle police officers were injured on saturday during protests.this pice precuilding here behind me damaged by explosives and while federal agents have been on the ground since last week, george, they have yet to be seen here in seattle. >> kayna whitworth, thanks very much. >>> we turn to the honoring of john lewis, the civil rights gro died earlier this month at the age of 80. he will lie in state at the u.s. capitol this afternoon after a weekend of memorials in his home state of alabama ahead of his funeral at the historic ebenezer baptist church on thursday. rachel scott is in montgomery, alabama with the story. good morning, rachel. >> reporter: george, good morning. the memorials for joh

one of them, 28-year-old garrett foster, was killed.olice say foster, who had protested regularly since the death of george floyd, was legally carrying an ak-47 at the time. he and other protesters, according to authorities, surrounded a car after the driver turned aggressively toward demonstrators. the driver opened fire, striking foster before speeding away. the driver later called 911 and claims foster pointed a rifle at them before they fired at him. >> his wife being an african-american and wanting to be a champion of justice and making sure all people are treated fairly and equally. >> reporter: a blue jeep barreled through protesters. one person opened fire, wounding at least one other demonstrator. police declared a riot in seattle saturday night after vandals set fires and destroyed property. authorities deployed tear gas and pepper spray. daryl breaux's car was damaged and those using the demonstrations as cover for mayhem are drowning out the positive meaning of the protest. >> 45 years i've been black. this is what black liv

the man garrett foster who was armed with a rifle shot by someone in a vehicle who had driven through the crowd. the gunshots heard in this video. >> we saw garrett lying on the road in a fetal position with -- with a pool of blood next to him. >> reporter: federal agents in kansas city and chicago. the president vowing to send more to other cities facing unrest including philadelphia, detroit, and baltimore. here in seattle the mayor, the police chief, and the governor all oppose the president's plan to send more federal agents to seattle. they were worried that it would inflame tensions. now that that appears to be what's happening, the question becomes how to de-escalate not only here but also in portland. craig? >> that is the question, indeed. erin mclaughlin in seattle. thank you. >>> 7:12 now. we want to get to those memorials mentioned for civil rights icon congressman john lewis. he will lie in state at the capitol rotunda. this after a weekend that included one final trip across selma bridge where he and other marchers were beaten badly 55 years ago in the cause of justice.