Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry.
Perry, a veteran who was driving an Uber at the time, was sentenced to 25 years for defending himself during BLM riots against a protestor who approached his car carrying an AK-47.
Prosecutors pointed to his “racist online comments” and psychological experts testified on how dangerous he was.
The Austin police detective who was the lead investigator on the case later testified that the DA put pressure on them to withhold exculpatory evidence from the grand jury.
‘withhold exculpatory evidence’. THAT is grounds for oh say FIVE YEARS for starters.
That’s grounds for what the defendant actually got.
Prosecutor tampers with evidence and the defendant gets life? Prosecutor better hope that tampering never, ever comes to light, because he should go away that long, too.
We can’t get control over this rogue system without stringing a few of these criminals up by their toenails.
Sorry, but the ridiculous article claims he was approached with an “AK-47 style” rifle. Why is this language being used? It’s deliberate misinformation. Intended to SCARE the lazy reader. “Oh my! He was carrying an illegal assault weapon” … is what registers in the lazy readers brain.
I don’t care which side is being smeared. But a BLACK AR- is NOT an AK-47. Period.
I can’t seem to find an image of the actual weapon.
The defense used a model of an AK as a prop during the trial.
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/local/2023/03/31/daniel-perry-trial-austin-protester-garrett-foster-officer-testifies-victim-warned-way-carried-rifle/70066884007/
Thanks for that Bunny. I was about to go look for an image. Won’t waste my time. I assumed “AK-47” was being used in a generic sense as looking like something from the Kalashnikov stable. Just curious.
Every Ivey-League graduated, card-carrying Communist in the West knows Grandad carried an AK-47 in the “great war” against LBJ and Tricky Dick. Of course, if the article claimed he was approached with an “SKS style rifle”, the cupcakes wouldn’t have a clue. It’s not clear to me what the author intended, however, by smearing BLM.
BLM came pre-smeared.
“The Austin police detective…” Enough said.
It’s cases like this that cause me to compare Antifa to the Black Hundreds of late Tsarist Russia. One sure sign that a mob is backed and sanctioned by an establishment power is the fact that they can riot with impunity, and anyone who dares to defend themselves against the rioters is aggressively punished.
ANARCHO TYRANNY.
Fabulously-funded anarcho tyranny.
He missed the shut up part of shoot, shovel, shut up. You have to shut up even before you do it. Never ever ever threaten violence unless you want to hear it in court later.
no wiser words spoken. a brother had a problem with a gf’s son.
to the point he parked a handgun on his lap under the newspaper.
hes been a hunter gawd knows how long, said the same thing, dont announce
your intent and after the deed do not tell anyone, put it out of your mind.
jeezuz murphy, how many shmucks wind up in penitentiary AFTER being ‘overheard bragging about ‘offing a rival’?
In my humble Canadian opinion, if anyone is in a State where you ARE allowed to defend yourself,(which doesn’t include Canada,) and during a violent riot a masked man carrying a rifle of any variety, AK-47,M-16, Flintlock, Blunderbuss, etc., approaches a vehicle in an aggressive manner, what would any sane person expect the driver of said vehicle to do?
Shoot the sonofabitch. Which is what the defendant rightly did.
Good for Governor Abbott.
Exactly.
It would be interesting if the law stated that a prosecutor hides exculpatory evidence they get the same sentence the defendant would have gotten.
Prosecutors fooled a grand jury that indicted him. What about the jury for the trial, what’s their excuse? Not one man or woman thought and said, hold on a second?
Jurors are uniformly chosen from the most ignorant morons available in the jury pool. People so invincibly stupid they couldn’t follow an argument with a map and a seeing-eye dog.
Anyone with a clue is instantly rejected by either the prosecution or the defense, depending on which side has the weaker case. The jury will vote based on the prosecutor’s haircut, and if the defendant looked “shifty.”
You will be judged by twelve of the dumbest people in town.
First, lawsuit against the corrupt system for million$.
Second, criminal charges against the DA for withholding evidence.
“Hooray for the man from Texas”