"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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New York Times business editor Andrew Sorkin seeks an economic boycott on anti-genocide students.

He wrote in a column:
- “Many business leaders have told me they are deeply concerned about incidents of harassment against Jewish students that have taken place at and around universities like Columbia”
- “Companies could tell universities that they won’t hire their students”
- “Wall Street, private equity and venture capital firms may uniquely have [a pressure point]: They could threaten to stop managing the endowments” of the universities.
- “Examining D.E.I. policies [Diversity, equity, and inclusion] [...] What would happen if the Wall Street firms also sent such questionnaires to the universities before deciding to work with them as clients?”
- “The most common course of action so far has been to pull back on individual donations.”

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