A man grieves the death of Garrett Foster in downtown Austin in 2020, who was murdered during a Black Lives Matter protest. Where is Gov. Greg Abbott’s condolences for Foster and his loved ones?For eight days, a jury of Daniel Perry’s peers, all Travis County residents doing their civic duty, listened and evaluated evidence as Perry stood trial for the 2020 killing of Black Lives Matter protester Garrett Foster, an Air Force veteran.
But this isn’t one of those verdicts, and Abbott isn’t one of those governors. Abbott’s shameless and opportunistic “request” not only reeks of political calculation and cavalier disregard for democratic norms, but it demonstrates a clear disrespect for the legal process. This is what appeals are for, right?
In a videotaped interview with police, Perry said, “I didn’t want to give him a chance to aim at me, you know?” Never has Abbott expressed, so quickly, his desire to pardon someone and never for a convicted murderer. But in a case in which a legally armed veteran is killed while protesting by a legally armed active member of the military who had made statements about killing protesters, Abbott has decided that the injustice was done to the convicted murderer.
Another editorial by the local chapter of the Greg Abbott fan club. The governor that keeps their hackles up.