Let Me Get This Straight!

As many of you know I am against the “Stand Your Ground” laws, to me it seems that the victim can’t defend themselves because they are dead.

Set your Wayback machine to July 25, 2020. On that day there was a “Black Lives Matter” protest over the murder of George Floyd, a car ran the red light and plowed into the protesters injurying a number of them. A legally licensed gun own ran toward the with an AR-15.

Austin American-Statesman writes,

A jury found Perry, 36, guilty on April 7 of murder. Perry, an Army sergeant, was working as an Uber driver in Austin when he ran a red light and turned into a Black Lives Matter march on July 25, 2020. He told police that Foster, 28, approached his car with a raised AK-47, so he shot Foster, 28, five times with a handgun and then drove away.

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Prosecutors have said that Perry instigated the incident by running a red light at Fourth Street and Congress Avenue, where he could clearly see the marchers before he drove into them. Perry also posted racist comments and memes denigrating Black people on social media, prosecutors said.

KXAN reported…

A jury was presented evidence including police body camera footage after the incident, interview footage of Perry in the Austin Police Headquarters interrogation room, 3D renderings of how close Foster was to Perry’s car, 911 calls, cell phone records, witness video, photos and more.

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Legal experts said it is rare for self-defense to not be a successful defense, especially in Texas where the state has some of the strongest “stand-your-ground” laws.

Perry was cuffed immediately, and taken into custody.

Okay here we have a person who is running over protesters and he claimed that “He was in defense of his life.” when someone tried to stop him from killing the protesters. The jury didn’t buy it.

Murder also was a racist, Texas Tribune reports…

One meme Perry shared the month before Floyd’s murder showed a white woman holding her child’s head under water in the bathtub with the caption, “WHEN YOUR DAUGHTERS FIRST CRUSH IS A LITTLE NEGRO BOY.” After being shown the meme in court, former Army Sgt. Ronald Wilson quickly said he wasn’t offended by it.

It reported that the governor stepped in. 

The day after Perry’s conviction, conservatives slammed it on social media and national TV, and Abbott jumped into the fray, saying he would pardon Perry as quickly as possible. He requested that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles quickly review Perry’s case and hand him a pardon recommendation, since the Texas governor can’t issue a pardon without such a recommendation.

“Texas has one of the strongest ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive District Attorney,” Abbott posted on Twitter.

Why did the governor step into the fray, why because of right-wing pressure, according to thr Austin American-Statesman.

Abbott faced growing calls from national conservative figures such as then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Kyle Rittenhouse, who was acquitted in the shooting deaths of two Wisconsin protesters in 2020, to act to urgently undo the conviction. 

So the governor wants to hand out “Get Out of Jail” cards for killing a Black protester.