Posted on 07/01/2021 1:47:14 PM PDT by Levy78
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A man who previously said he shot and killed a protester out of self defense in downtown Austin in July 2020 has been indicted on felony charges of murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and a misdemeanor charge of deadly conduct, according to a statement from his lawyer.
The lawyer says Daniel Perry posted a $300,000 bond and has been released from custody.
Perry “will vigorously fight all of these charges,” the lawyer says. Police identified the man killed in the July 25, 2020 shooting as Garrett Foster.
Austin Police identifies man killed in shooting during downtown protest Saturday According to APD’s description of the incident, a car turned on Congress Avenue near 4th Street at 9:51 p.m. into where a group of protesters was marching against police violence. Protesters surrounded the car. Foster was armed with an assault-style weapon and was one of the protesters who surrounded the car.
Former Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said that’s when the driver fired five shots from inside the vehicle, hitting Foster multiple times. Foster never fired a shot. Another protester then shot at the car three times but did not hit anyone.
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Open carry is legal in TX. This case will boil down to whether the shooter’s life was being threatened. Shooting someone because they are protesting & carrying a gun but not threatening your life is likely a felony offense.
“Remember the term “fragging?””
A/K/A the EMs’ Court Martial.
And the DA should be charged with prosecutorial abuse.
The first move is for a change of venue because the same DA who’s charging this citizen refused to charge those who actually threatened others with deadly weapons.
could be... and I do agree I don’t trust the ATX DA, but... i don’t think they could get a jury to convict.
Oddly enough, my wife and I were watching it happen live on the live stream that night. I pointed Foster out to my wife earlier in the night as he was walking around with his AK as if he were an operator. I had starting seeing Antifa and Boogaloo Boys (who is/was allied with Antifa in ATX anyway) presenting with rifles and body armor at Austin area ‘protests’. The environment in Austin in June/July last year was very intense. The police station had been attacked, etc. There was looting and openly armed people roaming the streets.
Perry was in danger... he accidentally turned onto the street and was immediately surrounded on all sides by a hostile crowd.. some of whom were armed. We all saw the Reginald Denny video. If was a threat to the ‘protestors’ why didn’t he run them over and why didn’t he shoot them outright? He shot a guy who presented an AK at the high ready when he had no ability to retreat. Sounds like a good shoot to me and I believe the jury will come to that conclusion.
This is wrong and clearly political.
It cannot take a year to determine this.
Who is the prosecutor?
Look closely at the picture posted above, that is more than a “ready” position.
see my post 46.
If this were anywhere but Hanoi in the Hill Country they’d be patting him on the back and saying “Good Shooting!”
To divert attention from the AZ audit results, perhaps.
Whether he was or was not about to fire is irrelevant and is why we have “brandishing” laws.
I’m surprised as well. The page is two years old so that is how it escaped deletion, for now.
And ammo!
In my experience, the Travis County DA’s office wants to try a normal, nonpolitically charged murder or felony they will seat conservative people for the jury. I was on one murder and another for aggravated child abuse.
If they want to try a political crime the jury panel and jury selected will be stacked with leftists. For instance, Tom Delay trial foreperson was a Greenpeace activist.
All those examples were under previous, less crooked leftist (non Soros pawn) DAs and even then the jury panels ( group from whom they select jurors) were clearly politically stacked depending on the case.
Yes. Was he preparing to defend people from vehicular assault?
Suppose that he was defending those in danger of being run over. I don’t know if the defendant will get a military lawyer, or not. They may not be able to bankrupt him. He could be looking at an Austin jury concerned with the prospect of Austin being threatened with riots and looting if he’s acquitted, though.
...”an assault-style weapon.”
“Assault style.” The writer needs to grow up and get a real job.
If I’m standing with a mob in the middle of a public road, impeding lawful traffic, just to pitch my preferred hissy fit, feel free to run me down, as I am breaking the law and ought to know better.
/polite version of my thoughts
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