Texas Governor Pardons and Frees Far-Right Gunman Who Killed Garret Foster Who was Pushing Girlfriend’s Wheelchair at a Black Lives Matter Protest
Texas Governor Pardons and Frees Far-Right Gunman Who Killed Garret Foster Who was Pushing Girlfriend’s Wheelchair at a Black Lives Matter Protest
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Texas Governor Pardons and Frees Far-Right Gunman Who Killed Garret Foster Who was Pushing Girlfriend’s Wheelchair at a Black Lives Matter Protest
This says so much about the morals and values of the Conservative Christian Republican.
the world has understood this clearly for decades. we need to stop talking about the kind of people they are and instead start talking about what we're going to do about it.
Isn't it scaring you how you guys have no real justice in the US if anyone with a bit of power can just override it?
Yeah, it's fucking terrifying.
I don't know if this makes it more or less scary but the idea of Perry being able to just pardon anyone isn't actually factual. A Texas governor can refer a pardon, but a board still has to approve it.
setting a murderer back on the streets.
If democrats don't run ads on this they're useless.
It would just end as another Kyle Shittenhouse. Conservative media would blow him up until he's a star with a chance at running for congress.
You can't keep adhering to the rules when your opponent threw them away years ago.
On the one hand, your Democrats need to run ad/announcement/propaganda campaigns about both their new achievements they brought about this term, like all the domestic fund allocations that are at least aimed at progressive and environment protection departments announced by Biden, all the while showing whoever they can reach about the apparent evil aspirations of the Republicans or conservatives, like pardoning this fascist murderer and potential child abuser before he served his appropriate and law-ordained sentence.
I'm not a U.S. citizen, I am Turk living in Turkey. But even news like this helps me evaluate what's what in the U.S. and who's who. Even though I'm living this far away and getting my news about there from a rather low-people count platform like Lemmy, I'm sure there are a lot of people in the U.S. that don't get news like this on their word of mouth or cable tv information sharing networks, so Democrats utilizing all avenues to make this incident known to everyone would be a better idea than thinking it is a risk about blowing the popularity of this guy.
How else would the achievements of Biden and Democratic government reach me without me seeking it myself otherwise? The genocide part is spread all over the world naturally, and if it were just that reaching me naturally, I'd be demonizing Biden naturally, like any conservative.
If democrats don’t run ads on this
On which network? Sinclair Media owned local news? Clear Channel Communications, in between Rush Limbaugh reruns and Sean Hannity rants? Bezos's WaPo? Murdoch's FOX? One of the other 15 billionaires who own our public media?
I mean, yeah. Go for it. Tell West Texas good'ole'boy indie voters that a right-wing nut killed a white guy with a black girlfriend in a wheelchair and the sitting Texas governor let him back out to do it again. See how they respond.
Stop. My Penis Can Only Get So Erect. - the good'ole'boy indie voters.
Don't forget he's a pedophile as well, which is undoubtedly is what pushed Abbott over the edge and saved a fellow monster.
People really need to make a bigger deal out of this: https://www.salon.com/2023/04/21/convicted-murderer-greg-abbott-wants-to-pardon-sought-chats-to-meet-young-girls/
Fuck the entire state of Texas. I don't wanna hear "but there are good ones". When I grab a loaf of bread that's moldy, I don't dig through it to find the one piece that's ok. I just toss the whole thing.
I agree but in a more rational sense regarding the governing system that we've allowed to go almost unchallenged across the country.
A lot of people with a lot of data realized that if they turn the presidental election into a huge WWE spectacle with narratives and villains and heroes and "everything on the line" then the average American will basically tune out the boring, local community, state and county elections.
Your local elections, your community, those are the places that prop up these corrupt judges and congresspeople and senators and everyone in the highest seats of power who create and block legislation.
It's wild because we're all screaming and crying that Trump has placed judges across the country in key positions to get him off of criminal charges, when we have the same power to shape the same systems with our involvement.
I know it sucks and sounds like there's no real way to tackle the local government problem, especially if you're not social and don't know your neighbors. But volunteers make a huge difference and it's very likely we would have already had a second Trump victory if it wasn't for volunteers in key states making calls and coordinating with the local democratic groups. We're not trying to argue our way to victory in this kind of work, we're just pushing a needle, you don't need to be persuasive or even social, you can make a difference just by educating people around you who is running for what, and what their values are, it can be with phone banking or distributing clever memes in local message boards, just start caring about the world outside your door and someday we won't be faced with these depressing choices every four years.
One of Abbott’s cronies openly admitted the state would have gone for Biden unless they intervened. The state is very purple, but the red traitors have gerrymandered on the state level as well to maintain power.
Right , but the state got carved up cause people originally voted in the Republicans who did it
To further your analogy, the mold you see on the surface is just the tip of the iceberg it's mycelium has already dug much deeper into the loaf.
So literally every person who lives there is bad now? I'm sure all the people directly suffering under abbot and Paxton will be thrilled
Yeah I'm kinda done caring about Texas. Uvalde county overwhelmingly voted for Abbott and the sheriffs/politicians who caused their kids to be killed while police did nothing. This Texan county had a chance to bring about change and instead they just went back to their party. If they don't care about their own people and children why should I?
Good people in North Korea too but fuck North Korea right? Fuck China and Russia right?
I was amazed that there is no limit to how many pardons a president van issue (let alone take money for it) but now I learn that Governors can pardon too?
How can people accept this in a civilized wold?
This guy drove into a crowd of protestors and shot someone randomly out of his window for open-carrying at a protest. He admitted in court that it was not self-defense. He also had a ton of shit on his phone talking about "the blacks", and how he wanted to kill protestors to send a message.
I can guarantee that the governor of Texas would feel very differently about pardoning somebody who sent texts and acted upon wanting to kill the governor of Texas "to send a message".
which is sad because i'd really like to hear that message
most of your leaders, tbh, especially the corporate revolving-door "thought leader" motherfuckers
His efforts to assemble the henchman nutjob army of Gotham City do not go unnoticed. Fuck you Gregory, you depraved cunt.
Conservatism is a vile plague of bigotry, oppression and death. It always has been. There is no place in a modern culture for such a hate-fueled ideology.
Teach your children why it is unethical to keep relations or do business with conservatives. Speak openly about the evils of conservatism. We can exclude hate in our lives by excluding the haters from our lives.
Texas signaling the penalty for crossing the color line.
The fucking shitbag bragged about heading to Dallas to shoot people. Fuck greg, he's a garbage human.
least fascistic US state.
Actually probably the most, but the joke is funny.
Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Idaho are all in the running, but that is just gonna drive Texas further
We're actually only a couple of steps from someone openly saying the will immediately pardon anyone convicted of killing the """others"""
yep, and us liberals are going to be caught with our pants down when it happens. ya'll need to start preparing.
The US is fucking fubar.
For anyone else who was concerned like I was about the credibility of reporting by "The Grouch," here's an alternate source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/16/texas-greg-abbott-pardons-daniel-perry
How does the family of the victim get justice? Or was there a settlement? Does he not have anyone to get justice for him?
Edit very sad situation just wondering what the family is going thru
How does the family of the victim get justice?
If the family is white, apparently they can just kill him
"The board [the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles] did not elaborate on why it issued a full pardon."
Gee, I wonder fucking why they didn't elaborate on why they pardon a man, who texted his friends he wanted to shoot protestors and then went and actually did it and killed a US military veteran. Fuck Abbott now and forever.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/16/daniel-perry-greg-abbott-pardon/
Yet no one protests
Never in history has a plague of conservatism been cured by pacifism.
Protests are nice for rallying others, but will not be enough to cause change. Change will require real action.
where does daniel perry live? i'm sure we can make this right. send a real message to these sociopaths in a language they clearly understand.
Advocating for violence makes you no better than him...
incorrect. getting rid of these assholes makes the world a better place. don't let goose and gander arguments confuse simple truths. that's how they keep getting away with this shit. embrace chaotic good.
Pushing your gf around in a wheelchair while you have your AK at a BLM protest. Then you probably have a staring contest with some psycho extremist and think about taking the AK off your shoulder. Then you ded. I can't make this shit up. LOL
Read the article and try again.
"Foster, who at the time of his death was open carrying an AK-47, legal under Texas law, was taking part in a Black Lives Matter march alongside his fiance, who he was pushing in a wheelchair. Perry who was also armed, drove his vehicle through a red light and into a group of protesters, before shooting his revolver through his car window, killing Foster." What did I miss?
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. He had it coming?
People like this don't have the guts to actually take a side and say what they're thinking. They're content to blow a dog whistle implying the victim was somehow wrong, then when they get challenged on it they throw their hands up like, "I never said that!"
