A US Army sergeant convicted of murdering a protester at Black Lives Matter rally is set to be sentenced Tuesday morning – amid moves from Texas’ governor to pardon him
. Daniel Perry shot and killed 28-year-old Garrett Foster, both White men, in July 2020 at an Austin racial justice rally held following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which triggered nationwide and global protests against police brutality. Perry’s legal team argued his actions were justified as self-defense, saying Foster had approached Perry’s car with an assault-style rifle and motioned for Perry to lower his window.
She didn’t specify how long the review would take. Perry made comments about killing protesters on social media, documents show Documents related to the case that were unsealed by a Travis County judge following Perry’s conviction show he had a yearslong history of making racist comments in messages and social media posts. In a Facebook message from May 2020, just weeks before the shooting, Perry told a friend he “might have to kill a few people” who were rioting outside his apartment.
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