perry s attorneys are calling for a new trial, saying they want to introduce evidence that foster repeatedly instigated confrontations and was the quote first aggressor. when the murder happened on july 25th 2020 perry, now a 35 year old army sergeant. worked as a rideshare driver and had just dropped off a passenger near a blm protest. prosecutors say perry drove into the protest and instigated a confrontation. perry s attorneys say foster, a 28 year old air force veteran motion to perry as protesters were beating on his car practice something some of them right legally carrying an assault style weapon. that night . perry had a handgun in his car and at some point in the exchange. he fired multiple times, killing foster. during the police interrogation. perry gave several versions of the position of foster s gun was going in there. they want to, you know, also told police he did not try to kill foster honestly did not want to want him to die. i wanted to do was capacity him.
We re thinking of you tonight. welcome thank you. thank you. good night. joining me now we have our friend, legal eagles, joey jackson here and senior reporter for the root. jessica washington defense attorney mr maris is here and former senate candidate joe pinion. um misty. he was convicted, daniel perry was convicted by a jury of his peers. 12 texans took their time out of their lives because this is our judicial system. and then the next day, um, before he s been sentenced that governor abbott announced his desire to pardon him. have you seen something like how unusual is something like that? it s completely unusual, and i think unprecedented this before the verdict sheet is even dry. the ink hasn t dried, no sentencing , no appellate process, and the governor is stepping in and essentially saying, i just don t agree with this jury verdict. it is a complete abomination. it is an abuse of power, and it s him infusing himself improperly into the legal system. to the extent
To the jury that convicted the army sergeant of murdering protester garrett foster and raises new questions about why texas governor greg abbott is rushing a push to pardon this convicted murderer. foster s family and longtime partner have called the governor s call for a pardon. disgusting this has been a complete nightmare, court documents show, perry talked about killing people and shared racist memes and comments on social media, including a 2019 message saying too bad we can t get paid for hunting muslims in europe and in a facebook message in may 2020 just months before the deadly shooting, perry wrote. he might have to kill a few people on my way to work. another text said. i might go to dallas to shoot looters. perry s attorneys called the release of the documents of political move by prosecutors and said foster also made posts advocating violence in this 2020 post. foster praised the burning of a minneapolis police station.
That he wants to refer this case into the pardon process, you have to let the legal process play out the sentencing and all of the appeals that you would see go into place in any criminal trial for him to come in at this point, and just say i don t like this verdict overturned. what a dangerous precedent to set. joe. we don t know exactly what governor abbott s motivation is. he hasn t explained it. however there was a loud drumbeat on fox that this, uh daniel perry should never have been convicted and that if he were to be convicted, he should be pardoned. so let me just play a moment of that for you. if that s not justified, shooting, there s no such thing. so this is illegal atrocities officer acted in self defense would shoot in this instance. i think you should be pardoned. i think he spent far too much time in jail already. and then lo and behold, the governor said that he would like to pardon him. look i m not gonna kind of dignified the assumption that the governor abbott is ge
You know, also told police he did not try to kill foster honestly did not want to want him to die. i wanted to do was capacity him. texas jury rejected his claims of self defense. we reached out to texas governor greg abbott s office to find out if he was still pushing for a pardon of daniel perry. given this new information that has come to life, his office responded with a simple one sentence statement with fred. all pertinent information is for the board of pardons and paroles to consider, as this is part of the review process required by the texas constitution, and what he s referencing there is that the governor has to wait for the recommendation from that board before he can issue a pardon, but right now there is no timeline on exactly when that will happen. in fact, we should all remember that this trial isn t even over yet. the sentencing hearing hasn t even been scheduled. alison. ed thank you. i m joined now by garrett