Goaded by Tucker Carlson, Greg Abbott threatens to pardon Daniel Perry after murder conviction.
, will soon respond to the governor’s threat.
Perry was convicted for his actions on the evening of July 25, 2020, when he drove his car into a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters at the corner of Fourth Street and Congress Avenue. Garrett Foster, a 28-year-old Air Force veteran, approached the driver’s side door that night, carrying an AK-47 across his chest, and challenged Perry. The window opened and Perry shot Foster five times.
At the ensuing trial, prosecutors made a strong case that Perry had acted with premeditation, presentingbetween him and a pair of friends that showed he had fantasized about killing BLM protesters, even going so far as to predict how he could get away with it – by claiming self-defense. Legal scholars speculate that this evidence was central to the jury’s guilty verdict. Still, the verdict came as a shock to those following the case.
Abbott’s threat to pardon Perry could be the first of many. In the spring of 2022, after a Travis County grand jury indicted 19 Austin police officers for assault for injuring BLM protesters, Abbott threatened to “exonerate” any officers who were prosecuted. Many of these cases are expected to begin filtering into county courtrooms in the coming year.
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