Texas gov. seeks to pardon Army sergeant convicted of murder

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Saturday that he is seeking to pardon a U.S. Army sergeant who was convicted of murder in the 2020 fatal shooting of an armed protester during nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice.

Abbott tweeted that he is asking the state Board of Pardons and Paroles to encourage a pardon and to expedite his request so that Sgt. can receive one because the State Constitution only permits him to receive it upon the Board’s’s request. Mr. Daniel Perry

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As soon as the board’s’s request for forgive arrives at my desk, I look forward to approving it, Abbott wrote.

Perry was found guilty by a Travis County judge on Friday of fatally shooting Garrett Foster, then 28 years old, while he was protesting in Austin. He could spend the rest of his life in jail if sentenced.

A judge or a progressive district attorney may invalidate Texas’ one of the strongest” Stand Your Ground” norms of self-defense, according to Abbott.

On Saturday, a request to District Attorney José Garza’s’s work went unanswered.

The shooting, according to Perry’s’s lawyers, was self-defense as Foster walked up to his vehicle brandishing an AK-47 weapons. Witnesses testified that Foster always raised his rifle at Perry, and the prosecution claimed Perry had had fled before firing his pistol.

Perry, who was detained at Fort Worth in 2021, was charged. Hood was working for a ride-sharing company when, in July 2020, he was about 70 miles( 112 kilometers ) north of Austin. He then turned onto the street and entered an enormous crowd of protesters in the heart of the city.

A vehicle can be heard honking in a live Facebook game before five shots ring out and the protesters start yelling and dispersing.

Following the police killing of George Floyd, protesters in Austin and elsewhere had been marching in the streets for days when Foster was killed.

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Floyd passed away on May 25, 2020, after more than nine hours of a Minneapolis police officer pressing his knee against the African man’s’s chest. Handcuffed Floyd frequently claimed he was having trouble breathing.

A bystander recorded Floyd’s’s murder on television, which sparked protests all over the world as part of a larger effort to address racial injustice.