On Thursday, a convicted murderer serving a 25-year sentence was set free in Texas. He wasn’t set free because DNA analysis determined he was innocent. Nor was there some legal technicality successfully raised on an appeal. Daniel Perry, who was an active-duty Army sergeant at the time of his crime, never disputed that he shot and killed 28-year-old Air Force veteran Garrett Foster, in front of multiple witnesses, during a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Austin.
Yet, those details mattered neither to Abbott nor his pardon board. They said Foster’s weapon was in the “low ready gun” position,” which, they say, is enough to call Perry’s actions self-defense. That’s interesting — because Perry never claimed Foster was pointing his rifle at him. Perry told police, “I believe he was going to aim at me. I didn’t want to give him a chance.
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