311 transistor downlaod6/17/2023 Perry, who is white, was stationed at Fort Hood, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) north of Austin, when the shooting happened. “Conservatives have far better causes and individuals to support, far better than Daniel Perry.” “The majority (of conservatives) will want to put it in the rearview mirror,” Jones said. “Those who claim that Governor Abbott’s expressed intent is based on politics simply choose to ignore the fact that it was only the political machinations of a rogue district attorney which led to Sgt. Perry’s attorneys on Wednesday called the case a “political prosecution” and the release of the texts and social media posts “character assassination.”Īttorney Clinton Broden said the defense team would pursue both a pardon and a standard appeal in the court system. The case has been embroiled in politics as it came amid widespread demonstrations against police killings and racial injustice, following the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white Minneapolis police officer. State law requires the board to recommend a pardon before the governor can act. The Pardons and Parole board, which is appointed by Abbott, has already started reviewing Perry’s case. Abbott had known all that he knows now, he would not have jumped the gun on pledging to pardon him,” Jones said. “Abbott clearly boxed himself into a corner,” when he appeared to respond to criticism from conservative former Fox News star Tucker Carlson, who demanded the governor act, Jones said. Rice University political science professor Mark Jones said Abbott moved too soon on the call for a pardon. Perry, 36, could have received up to life in prison. Since then, Perry’s trail of texts and online posts, including shockingly racist images, have been made public and the governor has stayed silent on the matter.Ībbott’s office did not respond to an Associated Press request for comment on the sentence or whether he still intends to issue a pardon. Greg Abbott, who has said he wants to issue a swift pardon.Ībbott requested the state Board of Pardons and Paroles to send him a pardon recommendation for Perry shortly after he was convicted in April of killing Garrett Foster at the Austin march in July 2020.Ībbott lauded Texas’ tough Stand Your Ground self-defense laws and said Perry was railroaded by a liberal prosecutor. Army sergeant who fatally shot an armed protester at a Black Lives Matter march in Texas was sentenced to 25 years in prison Wednesday, after prosecutors used his social media history and text messages to portray him as a racist who may commit violence again.ĭaniel Perry’s sentence now pushes the case toward a potentially thorny decision for Republican Texas Gov.
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