Posted on 05/10/2023 4:11:10 AM PDT by Libloather
Daniel Perry, a U.S. Army sergeant Texas Gov. Greg Abbott promised to pardon following his murder conviction last month, is slated to be sentenced on Tuesday for killing a Black Lives Matter protester.
Perry was working as a rideshare driver when he shot and killed 28-year-old Garrett Foster, an Air Force veteran, during a racial justice rally in Austin on July 25, 2020. The deadly violence came amid a summer of protests triggered by police violence nationwide, including the death of George Floyd, who was killed by officers in Minneapolis just months earlier.
Perry served in the military for more than a decade and was stationed at Fort Hood, about 70 miles north of Austin. He had just dropped off a customer in the moments before he turned onto a street packed with people. The Army Sergeant said he was trying to maneuver his way through the crowd when he was approached by Foster, who was legally armed with an AK-47.
According to prosecutors, Foster motioned for Perry to lower his window, at which time the soldier shot his own gun.
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He (Abbott) said he would fight to pardon Perry and that he’d already asked the state Board of Pardons and Paroles to expedite a review of the case.
Per Texas law, the governor can only order Perry’s release with the board’s approval. It is currently reviewing the case. It’s not clear when the parole board will reach a decision.
“I am working as swiftly as Texas law allows regarding the pardon of Sgt. Perry,” the Republican governor said in a tweet after the conviction. “Texas has one of the strongest ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive District Attorney.”
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I don’t understand the problem……a guy points a gun at Perry and Perry defends himself.
Yeah, I know it’s Austin
it was a persecution
It’s Texas. It’s time for Abbott to act.
Probably an overused idiom, but “all hat, no cattle” seems perfect in describing Gov. Abbott.
I hate to say this, but I’ll bet if this had happened in Florida, Sgt. Perry would have long been pardoned by DeSantis, if ever convicted. A contrast between states and certainly governors.
Yep.
Yep.
As I understand it Abbot cannot act until the board of pardons and paroles sends him something.
They made the rule about the Board of Pardons because some past governors were selling pardons right and left.
As I understand it Abbot cannot act until the board
of pardons and paroles sends him something.
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Don’t let following laws/rules/procedures get
in the way of rushing to a conclusion.
“... a racial justice rally”
As long as the media get to invent their own terms, we will keep losing the debate.
If Perry was tried in Austin, his jury was a group of Socialist liberals.
Needed: a pardon for every patriot wongfully convicted by a kangaroo court drawing from a lynch mob jury pool.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but my recollection is that this was the incident in which the dead asshat was carrying an AK or AR.
I expect Abbott to follow through; we shall see...
AK
Yeah, if you’re enforcing a private roadblock with a AK, you taking the risk you just might get dead. AntiFa FAFO’ed.
I also have the bad habit of frequently clicking thru to the full article.
Our country is living in the Twilight Zone.
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