TEASER: Getting Away With Murder in Texas
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.3 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Back in 2020, Daniel Perry was driving for Uber to make ends meet. He ran a red light and dove his car into a crowd at a Black Lives Matter protest. Garret Foster was there to protect the crowd and he’d brought an AK-47 along to do it. Foster, an Air Force veteran, approached Perry’s car. Perry, an Army sergeant, pulled out a pistol and killed Foster from the car and drove away.
After a trial and a deep dive into Perry’s online history, a jury of his peers found him guilty of murder. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pardoned him.
Why? Perry had become a symbol that transcended justice.
Christopher Hooks is here to walk us through the particulars of the case. Hooks is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and The Atlantic. He’s been writing about the Perry case and its consequences for Texas Monthly. Hooks tells us exactly what happened in 2020, when Perry committed the murder, and walks us through the colorful cast of Texas politicians who may soon take the national stage.
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| 0:00.0 | Love this podcast support this show through the a cast supporter feature |
| 0:05.1 | It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. Just click the link in the show description to support now. Daniel Pirry is an army vet who, who, uh over the pandemic summer, spring and summer, |
| 0:30.3 | as Black Lives Matter protests were starting to build in Texas and in other places, he developed a kind of strong and violent resentment for the protest that he was seeing happening. |
| 0:46.0 | And he started to fantasize and talk with his friends online |
| 0:52.0 | about his desire to go to one with his I would have to shoot somebody in self-defense and sometimes he would just say, you know, |
| 1:04.4 | somebody's going to have to shoot these people. |
| 1:06.8 | And in Austin, in the summer of 2020, he was driving in Uber in downtown Austin, |
| 1:12.3 | where there was a Black Lives Matter protest march going on. |
| 1:15.7 | He ran a red light, took a wrong turn into this protest march. |
| 1:20.8 | The protesters were afraid of people using counter-protesters using vehicles as a weapon, which had happened. |
| 1:29.4 | Which famously happened in Charlottesville. |
| 1:31.6 | Right. |
| 1:33.0 | And still happens, has happened at least once this summer in notable incident in New York. |
| 1:37.8 | There was a man named Garrett Foster, who was at the March. |
| 1:41.8 | He was a white man with a black partner |
| 1:44.7 | and he was supportive of the protest. |
| 1:46.6 | He brought a rifle, an AK-47 style rifle, |
| 1:50.0 | to the protest. |
| 1:51.6 | His goal was to protect the march. |
| 1:54.5 | He saw this car careening toward the protest. |
| 1:58.2 | He thought it was a threat. |
| 1:59.4 | He approached the car with his rifle. Daniel Perry was also carrying a gun. |
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