This is an outrage. Solidarity.
Garrett was the full-time caretaker of his wife Whitney, who is a quadriplegic and a black woman. He had been pushing her wheelchair throughout the march, and she was with him when the shooting occurred. Garrett heroically defended her and those around him with his life. The police did not let Whitney see him in the hospital after he had died.
Garrett and Whitney would regularly cook meals to serve to the homeless under I-35 and had been planning to do a basic necessities drive this coming Wednesday. Garret also understood that the housing inequality in Austin was part of the racist system that he was against, and he and Whitney marched alongside United Neighborhood Defense Movement at their Anti-eviction march at the beginning of July.
Garrett Foster is a revolutionary martyr.
