Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he would pardon a man convicted on Friday of killing an Austin protester. Abbott announced Saturday that he has requested that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles determine if Daniel Perry should be granted a pardon.
that he has requested that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles determine if Daniel Perry should be granted a pardon.
A Travis County jury had convicted the U.S. Army sergeant and Uber driver of murder in the 2020 shooting death of Austin Black Lives Matter protester Garrett Foster. Perry killed Foster, an Air Force veteran who was legally armed, during an altercation at an Austin BLM protest.Perry, an active-duty former Fort Hood Army sergeant, drove into a crowd gathered downtown to protest police violence, and later fatally shot Foster, who was carrying an AK-47 rifle., but prosecutors argued that Perry instigated what happened.
They drew attention to social media posts and Facebook messages in which Perry made statements that they said spoke to his state of mind, including that he might "kill a few people on my way to work. They are rioting outside my apartment complex," per the Statesman.
"So that is Greg Abbott's position, there is no right of self-defense in Texas," Carlson told his viewers.An Austin jury deliberated for 17 hours over two days before reaching the verdict.Worth noting:
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