Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is blasting a “Soros-backed' prosecutor after a Texas jury found Daniel Perry, a U.S. Army sergeant, guilty in the shooting death of an armed protester in Austin.
Sgt. Daniel Perry claims that he acted in self-defense when he shot and killed an armed protester in downtown Austin in the summer of 2020.
Among the protesters was 28-year-old Garrett Foster, who was carrying an AK-47. Perry's defense team says that the demonstrators encircled and starting pounding on his vehicle and that Foster raised the firearm at Perry, prompting him to open fire with a handgun he legally carried for self-defense. "When Garrett Foster pointed his AK-47 at Daniel Perry, Daniel had two tenths of a second to defend himself. He chose to live," Doug O’Connell, an attorney for Perry, perviously told Fox in a statement.
"It may be legal in Texas to carry an assault rifle in downtown Austin. It doesn’t make it a good idea. If you point a firearm at someone, you’re responsible for everything that happens next."Perry drove to a safe location away from the scene and called 911 to report what had happened. Officers spoke to Perry that night and released him, but a grand jury returned an
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