"In it, prosecutors displayed online conversations between Perry and friends showing that, in the weeks before he shot Foster, Perry had fantasized about killing a BLM protester, even arguing that he could get away with it by claiming self-defense."
"Perry was interviewed by senior homicide Detective David Fugitt, a recently retired officer who remains a legend at APD. In a video played at the trial, Fugitt, seated, asked Perry, standing in front of him, to demonstrate how Foster had held the AK. Perry seems uncertain but holds an imaginary rifle pointed down at the officer. "I believe he was going to aim it at me," he stammers. "I didn't want to give him a chance to aim it at me, you know?" Fugitt later testified that he thought Perry had a legitimate claim of self-defense. He let him go."
https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2023-04-14/12-jurors-found-him-guilty-of-murder-gov-abbott-thinks-he-knows
... Show more..."In it, prosecutors displayed online conversations between Perry and friends showing that, in the weeks before he shot Foster, Perry had fantasized about killing a BLM protester, even arguing that he could get away with it by claiming self-defense."
"Perry was interviewed by senior homicide Detective David Fugitt, a recently retired officer who remains a legend at APD. In a video played at the trial, Fugitt, seated, asked Perry, standing in front of him, to demonstrate how Foster had held the AK. Perry seems uncertain but holds an imaginary rifle pointed down at the officer. "I believe he was going to aim it at me," he stammers. "I didn't want to give him a chance to aim it at me, you know?" Fugitt later testified that he thought Perry had a legitimate claim of self-defense. He let him go."
https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2023-04-14/12-jurors-found-him-guilty-of-murder-gov-abbott-thinks-he-knows-better/
If even Daniel Perry, the textbook case of looking for an excuse, can get away with murder, then any fascist in the state of Texas can. Stay strapped, comrades.
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An Army sergeant thought he could get away with murdering a Black Lives Matter protester, and he might be right
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