The Texas pardons board is weighing the governor's request for expedited review of the conviction of an Army sergeant who fatally shot a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally. An attorney for the victim’s family wants the legal process to play out first.
As the Texas pardons board weighs a request from the governor for an expedited review of the conviction of an Army sergeant who fatally shot a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally, an attorney for the victim’s family is calling for the full legal process to play out first, including sentencing and an appeal.
“Foster, the individual with the assault rifle, began to raise the AK-47 toward Sgt. Perry. It was only then that Sgt. Perry, who carried a handgun in his car for his own protection, fired on Foster because he believed his life to be in jeopardy,” Broden has said.
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