OPINION: Greg Abbott’s pardon would mean a world where some murders count, and others don’t.
protester pointed an AK-47 at him. He should be pardoned, they argue, as the victim of liberal prosecutorial overreach—especially because police officers did not initially think that he had committed a crime.This story has such narrative force right now because it confirms an important prior on the Right: the law is unfairly applied to them, and the courts have conspired to persecute them while allowing a pervasive crime wave to destroy America’s cities.
But you know who else said the weapon was not pointed at Daniel Perry? Daniel Perry. See, Perry made the classic mistake of so many people who like police. He talked to police. And hea sympathetic officer that “I believe[d] he was going to aim at me. I didn’t want to give him a chance to aim at me.” Not only did Foster not aim a weapon at Perry, he didn’t have the “chance” to.
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