In July 2020, Daniel Perry drove his car into a crowd protesting police brutality and shot Garrett Foster multiple times through his driver's side window
under control,” and instigated the confrontation by driving into a crowd of people. They also claimed he’d previously spoken about killing protesters — and how a person could get away with it by claiming self-defense.and social media communications where Perry talked about killing protesters in the weeks before the shooting. “I might have to kill a few people on my way to work, they are rioting outside my apartment complex,” he wrote to a friend in June 2020.
After killing Foster, Perry told police Foster had raised the barrel of his rifle and pointed it at him. “I thought he was going to kill me,” he told police officers on body camera footage of him being taken into custody. “I’ve never been so scared in my life.” Witnesses refuted Perry’s claim that Foster had raised the gun, however, and a prosecutor said it was recovered with the safety on and no bullet in the chamber.
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