Texts suggest Daniel Perry intended to commit murder at a Black Lives Matter demonstration.
Daniel Perry, who shot and killed protester Garrett Foster during a 2020 Black Lives Matter demonstrationGarrett Foster's most important prosecution to date – began on March 27 and has so far provided little new information about the killing. But prosecutors have developed a fuller picture of Perry's intention and possible premeditation by showing the depth of the hatred he harbored for BLM demonstrators protesting police violence in the summer of 2020.
The testimony confirming Perry's anger toward protesters came on the third day of the trial as prosecutors displayed text messages and social media comments showing that he thought about killing them."I might have to kill a few people on my way to work, they are rioting outside my apartment complex," Perry wrote to a friend in June of 2020."I might go to Dallas to shoot looters," he wrote on another occasion.
None of this seeming premeditation was on display after Perry turned himself in to APD officers. In his recorded 911 call, played on the fourth day of the trial, Perry claims that he drove into the protesters by mistake after taking a wrong turn. Body-camera video played the next day shows Perry, after being taken into custody, telling officers Foster had pointed his gun at him."I didn't know he was going to aim it at me," Perry says."I thought he was going to kill me ...
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