A judge sentenced Daniel Perry to 25 years in prison for the murder of Black Lives Matter protester Garrett Foster.
. However, it is unclear how much time Perry will serve, as Texas Governor Greg Abbott has promised he will pardon Perry if the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles send him a request.
On Tuesday’s first day of the sentencing hearing, the prosecution asked District Judge Clifford Brown to give Perry a minimum of 25 years in prison, saying he was a “loaded gun” who had the potential to harm people again, according to reporting by the. Perry’s defense team had requested 10 years, saying that Perry, an Army veteran, was not the violent racist prosecutors made him out to be.
in the death of Foster, an Air Force veteran who was 28 when he died. Perry, who was legally carrying a handgun in his car, shot Foster, who was legally open-carrying an automatic rifle on his chest, after he pulled his car onto a street filled with protestors in the summer of 2020. After the verdict, an outcry in support of self-defense laws rose from the political right, and Texas’ Republican Governor Greg Abbott vowed to pardon Perry.
The case fed an ongoing, polarizing discourse about the Second Amendment and self-defense laws. Many conservatives rallied around Perry on the same basis they’d embraced Kyle Rittenhouse, who in 2021 was
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