The Texas governor’s pardon of a former Army sergeant who fatally shot a Black Lives Matter demonstrator undermines the state’s legal system and constitution and should be reversed, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
Travis County District Attorney José Garza said he is filing request with the Court of Criminal Appeals — the state’s highest criminal court — to review the pardon issued by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, which he said made a mockery of the legal system and put politics ahead of justice.
“We will continue to use the legal process to seek justice,” Garza said during a news conference in Austin.
Daniel Perry shot and killed Garrett Foster during a protest in downtown Austin in July 2020. Perry was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison in May 2023, prompting immediate calls for a pardon from conservative figures. Abbott issued the pardon last month and Perry was quickly released from prison.
Abbott is such a POS.
Daniel Perry should never feel safe in public again.
I think that’s part of the problem with conservatives. They’re already living in abject fear of everything.
They’ve been groomed into believing a civil war is imminent and their neighbors are the enemy, to the point where they’ve started making moves toward actual civil war with their neighbors.
They’ve been all been told: “There is the enemy, these are their flags, here is a gun, we can keep you out of jail.”
All you have to do in Texas to get away with murder is claim at trial he pointed the gun at you first. It doesn’t matter that the police have you on video saying the opposite, and only changed your story at trial. That the victim was trained in firearms and would have known to turn his safety off, and no round was chambered. That every witness said otherwise.
I didn’t know pardons could be reversed.
Zero chance. In Texas, decades of Republican control has corrupted the state courts, stacked supreme court (zero Democrats), who coincidentally never rule against their governor.
Voter’s choice? I’m not convinced these types of proud facists (who’ve projected stolen elections and other lies for years) value free and fair elections. The good ol’ boys know best.
Jury nullification by racists committing murder is bad enough. Governor pardons justifies political violence. These assholes are more blatant than the old Jim Crow days.
