No doubt.
US Army sergeant sentenced to 25 years for Black Lives Matter protester’s murder
(Reuters) -A U.S. Army sergeant was sentenced to 25 years in a Texas prison on Wednesday for killing a man at a protest against police brutality in 2020, setting the stage for Governor Greg Abbott to make good on a pledge to grant a pardon.
And from an earlier report:
A Texas judge rejected a motion Wednesday to grant Army Sgt. Daniel Perry a new trial after he was found guilty last month of killing a 28-year-old Air Force veteran, Garrett Foster, during an Austin Black Lives Matter protest in 2020. The decision comes as the Army is in the process of pushing Perry out of the service.
“Sgt. Perry’s unit has initiated an administrative separation under Army Regulation 635-200 due to his conviction,” a spokesperson from the 11th Airborne Division – Perry’s unit – told Military.com in a statement. “In the interim, the unit is changing his duty status to civilian confinement.”
So, 25 years, kicked out of the military, and hailed by the racists calling themselves republicans. Not bad, I guess, for wanting to kill someone, preparing to kill someone, going somewhere to kill someone, and actually killing someone.
Just as valid as “Some people say…”, right?
And now it has happened:
When I first read the headline I was wondering what Rick Perry had done.
That is the disputed part.
“The Board of Pardons and Paroles undertook an independent and extensive review of the case,” Broden said. “In particular, it interviewed the police detective who had previously determined, after a thorough investigation, that Mr. Perry had acted in self-defense when confronted with an angry crowd and a person with an assault rifle in the low ready position.”
However- only an idiot carries open caries a semiautomatic rifle. such as a AR15. Holstered sidearm- Okay if you really think you need it. 
(admittedly, if this was legal around here, there are some areas I would consider it- but then- I just try to avoid those areas- buthonestly if a women wants to open carry a holstered handgun- I cant totally blame her) .
BUT I do agree- the only reason why Abbott (who seemingly loves to execute other killers- about half of whom werent white) pardoned this dude as Perry killed a BLM protestor.
No real new info has come to light. Yes, there is a Board of Appeals, but the Governor made it very clear to them he wanted to pardon Perry. They complied of course.
This stinks. If Perry was black he’d be heading for death row.
I wondered what Bud Abbott had done.
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles – theoretically an objective body – is absolutely supine to Greg Abbott’s wishes. They got out over their skis a couple years ago and recommended a posthumous pardon of George Floyd for a minor drug offense. The silence from Abbott was deafening, and they quickly unanimously voted to rescind the recommendation.
I’d imagine it’s because, the more and more times you do this, the less believable it becomes in the eyes of a jury. Killing someone once in the name of Stand Your Ground is one thing; doing such killings 10 times makes it far more suspicious. Even if justified under the law, the juries will be less and less favorable to the defendant; they’re human jurors, not robots.
Not to mention that the circumstances that lead to a plausible claim of a Stand Your Ground law has to show some kind of self-defense. I know in some cases that’s flimsy, but if you have someone drugged and/or tied up or you come at them out of nowhere and strangle them, it’s harder to claim it. It’s an affirmative defense I believe. (IANAL of course.) So it’s one of those cases where the burden is actually on the defense for once.
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I just Googled it and damn, in some states (including Florida) there is no affirmative defense required; you’re just immune from prosecution. WTF. 
Under Texas law, Abbott can’t act on his own. He can only grant a pardon after the Board of Pardons and Paroles has made a recommendation on a case.
Sanity in Texass? Who would have thunk it.
Abbott appoints all of the members of the Board.
I take back by comment on the sanity then.
Sounds like the cliché of the Wild West badman, with multiple notches on his six-shooter, getting in people’s faces and goading them into making the mistake of attacking him. “He drew first Sheriff, everyone in the saloon saw it”. Presumably sheriffs, town marshals and hanging judges quickly got tired of accommodating “trouble makers”.
They do make such a thing as holsters for long guns, they’re called scabbards; and if someone insists on their right to carry a shotgun or rifle in public, then unless they have cause to go to condition Orange they really ought to keep them scabbarded, just as most people would be alarmed at someone carried a pistol in their hand. Mandating this is one of the few gun laws I would support.
Not at you, at the need for a “cool” name. Call them pinkflowers and I bet they’d be much less popular.
Yep, looks like it.
I would just require- in open carry states- that only holstered handguns be allowed in urban areas. Mind you, I am neither here nor there about the whole “open carry” thing.
Exactly. Implemented in a sensible way, it wouldn’t be a problem. But some are diametrically opposed to sensible.