signalmankenneth
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I hope he serves most of those 25 years too?!! And the army should've given him a dishonorable discharge too?!! Let's hope that wheelchair bound crackpot governor can't pardon him too, it would be a travesty of justice?!!
CNN —
A US Army sergeant who was convicted of murdering a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally in 2020 was sentenced to 25 years in prison Wednesday morning – even as Texas’ governor pushes to pardon him.
Daniel Perry, 35, faced between five and 99 years in prison for fatally shooting 28-year-old Garrett Foster at an Austin, Texas, racial justice rally following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Perry and Foster are White.
Prior to issuing the sentence, District Court Judge Clifford A. Brown praised the jury for grappling with the nuances and complexities of the case over several weeks.
“The hard work, the service and the sacrifice of this jury deserves our honor and it deserves to be respected,” he said.
Perry, wearing a black and gray striped jail uniform, put his head in his hands and cried after the sentence was issued.
In court Tuesday, Perry’s defense team asked for a sentence of 10 years, citing his lack of criminal history, his psychological issues, including complex post-traumatic stress disorder, and praise from several of his military colleagues.
The prosecution requested a sentence of at least 25 years in prison, highlighting a stream of racist and inflammatory social media posts Perry wrote prior to the shooting. Prosecutors also said the defense’s own analysis of his mental disorders and mindset showed he was a “loaded gun ready to go off.”
The sentencing comes nearly three years after Perry killed Foster, an Air Force veteran, in a case that has touched on fraught political issues of gun rights, open-carry laws, self-defense and Black Lives Matter protests.
Prosecutors said Perry, who was stationed at Fort Hood, initiated the fatal encounter when he ran a red light and drove his vehicle into a crowd gathered at the protest. Foster was openly carrying an assault-style rifle – legal in Texas – and approached Perry’s car and motioned for him to lower his window, at which point Perry fatally shot him with a handgun, prosecutors said.
Perry’s legal team argued his actions were justified as self-defense. He told police during an interview that he believed Foster was going to aim the firearm at him, according to CNN affiliate KEYE.
He was indicted by a grand jury nearly a year after the killing. In April, a Texas jury convicted Perry of murder but found him not guilty on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. A deadly conduct charge is still pending.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/10/us/daniel-perry-texas-sentencing-wednesday/index.html
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CNN —
A US Army sergeant who was convicted of murdering a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally in 2020 was sentenced to 25 years in prison Wednesday morning – even as Texas’ governor pushes to pardon him.
Daniel Perry, 35, faced between five and 99 years in prison for fatally shooting 28-year-old Garrett Foster at an Austin, Texas, racial justice rally following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Perry and Foster are White.
Prior to issuing the sentence, District Court Judge Clifford A. Brown praised the jury for grappling with the nuances and complexities of the case over several weeks.
“The hard work, the service and the sacrifice of this jury deserves our honor and it deserves to be respected,” he said.
Perry, wearing a black and gray striped jail uniform, put his head in his hands and cried after the sentence was issued.
In court Tuesday, Perry’s defense team asked for a sentence of 10 years, citing his lack of criminal history, his psychological issues, including complex post-traumatic stress disorder, and praise from several of his military colleagues.
The prosecution requested a sentence of at least 25 years in prison, highlighting a stream of racist and inflammatory social media posts Perry wrote prior to the shooting. Prosecutors also said the defense’s own analysis of his mental disorders and mindset showed he was a “loaded gun ready to go off.”
The sentencing comes nearly three years after Perry killed Foster, an Air Force veteran, in a case that has touched on fraught political issues of gun rights, open-carry laws, self-defense and Black Lives Matter protests.
Prosecutors said Perry, who was stationed at Fort Hood, initiated the fatal encounter when he ran a red light and drove his vehicle into a crowd gathered at the protest. Foster was openly carrying an assault-style rifle – legal in Texas – and approached Perry’s car and motioned for him to lower his window, at which point Perry fatally shot him with a handgun, prosecutors said.
Perry’s legal team argued his actions were justified as self-defense. He told police during an interview that he believed Foster was going to aim the firearm at him, according to CNN affiliate KEYE.
He was indicted by a grand jury nearly a year after the killing. In April, a Texas jury convicted Perry of murder but found him not guilty on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. A deadly conduct charge is still pending.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/10/us/daniel-perry-texas-sentencing-wednesday/index.html
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