{"id":111644,"date":"2023-04-12T02:48:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T02:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=111644"},"modified":"2023-04-12T02:48:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T02:48:38","slug":"tx-governor-seeks-to-pardon-murderer-who-drove-into-protest-then-shot-armed-protestor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=111644","title":{"rendered":"TX Governor Seeks to Pardon Murderer Who Drove Into Protest Then Shot Armed Protestor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/politicalwire.com\/2023\/04\/09\/abbott-seeks-pardon-for-killer-of-protester\/\" target=\"_blank\">Political Wire<\/a>: \u201cGov. Greg Abbott (R) directed the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to consider recommending a pardon for Daniel Perry on Saturday, one day after a Travis County jury convicted the U.S. Army sergeant in the 2020 murder of Austin protester Garrett Foster,\u201d the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2023\/04\/08\/greg-abbott-pardon-daniel-perry\/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas Tribune<\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAfter 17 hours of deliberations and an eight-day trial, jurors Friday found Perry guilty of murder for shooting and killing Foster, who was armed with an AK-47 as part of a group protesting police brutality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Wire: \u201cGov. Greg Abbott (R) directed the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to consider recommending a pardon for Daniel Perry on Saturday, one day after a Travis County jury convicted the U.S. Army sergeant in the 2020 murder of Austin protester Garrett Foster,\u201d the\u00a0Texas Tribune\u00a0reports. \u201cAfter 17 hours of deliberations and an eight-day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111645,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111644\/revisions\/111645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}