Fort Hood sergeant says he shot and killed armed Black Lives Matter protestor

[Dial H For Hero]

Source: The Hill

An active-duty Army sergeant from Fort Hood says he was the one who shot and killed a man at a Black Lives Matter protest in Austin, Texas, last weekend, according to the sergeant's attorney.

Sgt. Daniel Perry said he fired at Garrett Foster out of self-defense after Foster allegedly raised an assault rifle toward Perry, according to a statement from the attorney obtained by The Washington Post.

According to the statement, Perry was driving for a ride-share company in downtown Austin on the night of July 25 when he turned a corner toward a protest he did not know was taking place.

At that point, the attorney says protesters began beating on Perry's car. Foster then allegedly approached the car window holding an assault rifle.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/509987-fort-hood-sergeant-says-he-shot-and-killed-armed-black-lives-matter

[ZZenith]

1. Hmmmmmm...

And yet he’s previously on Twitter threatening violence against BLM protesters.

[efhmc]

2. Everyone videos everything. Where's the proof?

[ZZenith]

4. I don't understand your post.

[efhmc]

7. Show me the proof that the sergeant was attacked so he found it necessary to KILL a man.

I do not believe him.

[ZZenith]

10. Thanks for the clarification.

He and his lawyer seemed to have cooked up this angle.

Doubt it’s going to be effective, given his previous behavior.

[efhmc]

12. I knew nothing about his previous behaviour but just reading that excuse set off my

liar alarm.

[ZZenith]

14. You have your alarm properly tuned, methinks.

[LeftInTX]

9. Really???

Not to be sparky, but this is the first time I heard of Perry's name.

I think some protesters may have taken a pic of his plates, but this is the first of his name.

[ZZenith]

13. Yes, really.

There is a Twitter thread where he says something to the effect of, “Send them to Texas we will show them why we say don’t mess with Texas.”



https://www.statesman.com/news/20200731/army-sergeant-working-as-ride-hailing-driver-shot-protester-garrett-foster-in-self-defense-his-lawyer-says

[LeftInTX]

17. Thx!!

Assault charge (although old), reckless driving on July 25th, inflammatory tweets ( tweets are racist, but legally I don't know what they are)

Sounds like a hothead.

[ZZenith]

19. Hothead? Definitely.

Murderous white nationalist? More than likely.

[LeftInTX]

33. Unfortunately

Twitter is full of them. We would all be dead if they acted out on their tweets.
I could spend all day reporting racist tweets like his.

[CanonRay]

3. So did he have a long gun on his body when the cops got there?

[LeftInTX]

11. Probably

I saw video of Foster with his gun, 15 minutes before he was killed. It was strapped.

The question is whether Foster pointed his rifle at Perry.

Also Perry did not stop at the red light. He made a right turn on red without stopping. This complicates things, because what do you expect when you drive into a group? Of course they're gonna panic and bang on windows.

[vsrazdem]

27. There was a report where his gun was strapped across his body, but he never pointed it.

In fact, he stepped in front of his girlfriend who was in a wheelchair to shield her, and got shot. I did not see the video so I cannot corroborate it, but it would not surprise me if that was the case.

[vsrazdem]

35. Yup. They won't be charging him. Just another day in America.

[sarisataka]

37. What does Florida have to do with this?

[CanonRay]

38. Stand your ground

[jmowreader]

39. This was in Texas

[Dial H For Hero]

32. That doesn't match what the police are saying.

https://www.kxan.com/austin-george-floyd-mike-ramos-protests/man-who-shot-austin-protester-garrett-foster-reveals-identity-claims-self-defense-attorney-says/

Details of the shooting confirmed by Austin police

Many of the details in the attorney statement align with what Austin police say the driver who shot Garrett Foster told them.

“During the initial investigation of this incident, it appears Mr. Foster may have pointed his rifle at the driver of this vehicle prior to being shot,” Chief Manley said in an update about the shooting on Sunday.
A photo of Garrett Foster and his fiancée from the GoFundMe page launched to pay for his funeral expenses.

The chief elaborated that the driver’s account is that “Mr. Foster pointed the weapon directly at him.”

After the shooting, Chief Manley confirmed that a person did call 911, saying someone approached the driver-side window of their vehicle and pointed a rifle at them.

The department says both Perry and the second shooter have concealed handgun licenses. At this point, no one has been charged in connection to this incident.

[vsrazdem]

34. Of course they would say that. Duh!

[Dial H For Hero]

43. The Chief said a person called 911, saying someone approached the driver-side window and pointed

a rifle at the driver. Are you asserting that no such 911 call exists, or that there is such a call, but it's a fake manufactured by the police?

[vsrazdem]

44. I'm not asserting anything, but I definitely would accept witness statements before I would

accept the word of the police press squad.

[Grokenstein]

5. Yeah, open carry's so awesome...until it isn't.

"We simply ask that anybody who might want to criticize Sgt. Perry's actions, picture themselves trapped in a car as a masked stranger raises an assault rifle in their direction and reflect upon what they might have done if faced with the split second decision faced by Sgt. Perry that evening," Dallas-based attorney Clint Broden said in the statement.

My takeaway: Broden just declared open season on open carry, y'all! There's a reason he says "raises an assault rifle in their direction" instead of "points an assault rifle at them," but let's roll with it: when Solid Snoke from Meal Team Six waddles up with his Cheeto-dusted bang-bang, you're free to defend yourself.

[soothsayer]

6. Hmm. Ft hood with all those dead soldiers

Here's what we know about eight of the soldiers who have died this year at Fort Hood

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/25/us/fort-hood-soldier-deaths-trnd/index.html

[efhmc]

8. I live 45 minutes from there. It is a cesspool.

[azureblue]

15. Question - is the BLM Protester really a BLM protester?

he looks and acts like an infiltrator / instigator, maybe one of the Proud Boys. On the surface this looks like a PB came to start something by waving his AK around. Look at the way the guy is dressed -just like the PB protesters from all over. But he ran into yet another White supremacist in a car who shot him.

PS while I don't know Army Rules, isn't there a prohibition against using a service issued weapon to shoot civilians who have not shot at you first?

[LeftInTX]

20. Yes, pretty much. . He was an anti-police libertarian

He does look like a proud boy, but he was anti police violence. He supported Jo Jorgensen for president

He was not a white supremacist. His fiancee was a black woman in a wheel chair. I got the impression that most of the core BLM group protesting were disaffected type people.

[neohippie]

26. The victim was a BLM protester

I saw another article where the victim was armed for protection and that multiple witnesses said he never pointed his rifle at the man or car, but was concerned that the driver was going to drive into the crowd and since his wife is a quadriplegic he was concerned that the driver was aiming his car at her because she was an easy target, so he went to approach the car and was shot dead


I can't find the story I read but here is similar story

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/28/us/austin-protest-shooting-witness/index.html

[Dial H For Hero]

21. Regarding the handgun he used to shoot the protester:

PS while I don't know Army Rules, isn't there a prohibition against using a service issued weapon to shoot civilians who have not shot at you first?

I would be shocked if he used a service issued weapon. Those are kept secured on the base. I read in another story that he had a concealed carry permit, so presumably he was using his own privately owned firearm.

[blueinredohio]

25. And if he was working for a ride share company

do they allow drivers to carry weapons? Does an army sergeant need a second job?

[LeftInTX]

28. Really..and I think Ft Hood is about 70 miles away

[Dial H For Hero]

30. I would be very surprised in any ride share company such as Uber, Lyft, etc., allowed their drivers

to carry weapons. As for a second job, an E5 segeant with four years experience (just for example) makes about $33K per year.

[Polybius]

22. Define "look" like a Proud Boy

Do you mean because he had red hair or because he was carrying an assault rifle?

Either way, he was not. His fiancé was a black woman in a wheelchair. He had been out protesting for 50 straight days, and was very much against police violence.

[Lonestarblue]

23. I doubt he was a white supremacist. His girlfriend is black.

[sarisataka]

29. What leads you to believe

the Army person had an issued weapon? Have you ever known a military member to bring a service weapon home?

[JonLP24]

16. This has not been a good year for Fort Hood

Glad I wasn't stationed there.

[cstanleytech]

18. Witnesses will hopefully be able to tell us what exactly happened and if

Foster did or did not raise a weapon.

[LeftInTX]

36. I don't know

It happened so fast.
His shoulders and arms would naturally raise in response to a car careening into his space. It could be easy for a driver to misinterpret this.

It really happened very fast.

The driver failed to stop before making a right hand turn on red. He also did not even appear to a perform rolling yield. I thought maybe alcohol was involved on his part.

[Dial H For Hero]

41. Most estimates of the number of firearms in the US are in the neighborhood of half a billion.

It's harder to nail down how much ammunition is in private hands. A low end estimate would be about a trillion rounds.

[TexasBushwhacker]

42. I agree n/t