Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Saturday he is seeking the pardon of an Uber driver convicted of murder just a day earlier in the July 2020 shooting death of a man at a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Austin, the state capital.
Abbott, in a post on Twitter, said he will pardon Daniel Perry, 37, who is also a U.S. Army sergeant, as soon as a request from the parole board "hits my desk."
The case hinged on whether the shooting was in self-defense. A jury found on Friday that Perry, who is white, shot and killed Garrett Foster, a 28-year-old Black man, who was carrying an AK-47, according to the Austin American-Statesman newspaper. Perry's defense team claimed the weapon was leveled at him and he had no choice but to fire his pistol in self defense, the newspaper reported. Neither of Perry's attorneys was immediately available to Reuters by phone or email for comment.
“I will work as swiftly as Texas law allows regarding the pardon of Sgt. Perry,” Abbott wrote on Twitter.
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