TX gov Abbott to pardon man who killed BLM protester in 2020

[woolfe9998]

Just what the title says.

Texas Gov. Abbott says he's working to pardon sergeant convicted of killing protester at 2020 BLM rally | CNN

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he is working to pardon an army sergeant who was convicted Friday of killing a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally in 2020.

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The defendant, who was an active duty seagent picking up extra cash as a rideshare driver, claimed self-defense. The jury did not agree. Apparently, this defendant had previously posted on social media about killing BLM protestors, but came to trial with a story about how he didn't even know there was a BLM protest going on that day.

But Abbott is giving him a full pardon.

Because republicans are shit.

 

[Zorba]

Yup, apparently in Texas seeing someone with an AR-15 gives you the right to kill them in self defense. Also in Texas, open carrying an AR-15 with no training and no license is a god given right.

 

[Brainonska511]

Abbott is acting like the all white juries of old who would let the Klan off the hook for lynchings.

Perhaps time for the Feds to file charges against the murderer for violating the victim's civil rights to get around Abbott's racist pandering.

 

[sandorski]

Disgusting.

 

[BoomerD]

Makes me wonder...could the feds bring charges?

The guy might be better off serving time in a Tex-Ass prison than getting convicted of murder under the federal system.

 

[bba-tcg]

If one must serve time, I promise most federal prisons would be preferable to a Texas prison.

 

[Pohemi]

Perhaps time for the Feds to file charges against the murderer for violating the victim's civil rights to get around Abbott's racist pandering.

Exactly what I was going to post.

Makes me wonder...could the feds bring charges?

I believe they need to charge him with a hate crime or civil rights violation to prosecute state murder at the federal level. IANAL though, so I'm not sure if there are other ways available to the federal DoJ.

 

[PlanetJosh]

Bad but not bad enough to spark riots. For riots it would have to be kneeling on the neck of a minority or shooting them without any good reason, and all on video.

 

[zinfamous]

Fucking Abbot.

...where the hell is Walter White when we need him?

 

[Moonbeam]

Just what the title says.

Texas Gov. Abbott says he's working to pardon sergeant convicted of killing protester at 2020 BLM rally | CNN

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he is working to pardon an army sergeant who was convicted Friday of killing a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally in 2020.

www.cnn.com

The defendant, who was an active duty seagent picking up extra cash as a rideshare driver, claimed self-defense. The jury did not agree. Apparently, this defendant had previously posted on social media about killing BLM protestors, but came to trial with a story about how he didn't even know there was a BLM protest going on that day.

But Abbott is giving him a full pardon.

Because republicans are shit.

He's not doing this because he's shit. That's your, in my opinion, more accurate opinion of him. I believe he has entirely other motives than to admit to being shit. My view is that he believes that what makes America great is that it was conceived as a White Christian nation and that all the hog wash about it being Under God, just a pile of bull shit, he believes quite literally or at least conveniently so for his political aspirations. And I believe also that he is fully aware that the time when a majority of people who similarly believe, support, and vote that way is in the process of coming to an end. His world of elite entitlement is dying and will no longer be sustained by a democratic vote.

What this means, of course, is that only by the violence of intimidation and the destruction of the democratic voting process will his kind survive and none of those cowards will be the first to step forward to commit insurrection if they know they are going to jail.

It is imperative then, for conservative victory and the preservation of their delusional world view to have a large body of operatives willing to throw themselves as kindling of the fire and that will mean a belief they will be pardoned as valiant Christian or any other kind of soldiers. Abbott is dangerously fanatically insane and a liberal form of government is powerless to act on that fact with confidence. We will have to wait and see if the country falls and afterward who wins the the Civil War 11.

 

[Pens1566]

Quickly followed by Fed charges and then a subsequent (hopefully) consent decree.

 

[BoomerD]

Exactly what I was going to post.

I believe they need to charge him with a hate crime or civil rights violation to prosecute state murder at the federal level. IANAL though, so I'm not sure if there are other ways available to the federal DoJ.

Wouldn't be the first time the feds charged someone with either/both for a murder...and being an active duty Army sgt...he's also subject to the UCMJ.

 

[FirNaTine]

Yup, apparently in Texas seeing someone with an AR-15 gives you the right to kill them in self defense. Also in Texas, open carrying an AR-15 with no training and no license is a god given right.

But he didn't kill a patriot carrying an AR-15, that clearly would have been wrong as they are always the good guys. He killed a rioter carrying an AK-47, which makes it clearly self-defense. Anyone carrying a rifle designed by a communist state is clearly an enemy of the US.

 

[MrSquished]

He's not doing this because he's shit. That's your, in my opinion, more accurate opinion of him. I believe he has entirely other motives than to admit to being shit. My view is that he believes that what makes America great is that it was conceived as a White Christian nation and that all the hog wash about it being Under God, just a pile of bull shit, he believes quite literally or at least conveniently so for his political aspirations. And I believe also that he is fully aware that the time when a majority of people who similarly believe, support, and vote that way is in the process of coming to an end. His world of elite entitlement is dying and will no longer be sustained by a democratic vote.

What this means, of course, is that only by the violence of intimidation and the destruction of the democratic voting process will his kind survive and none of those cowards will be the first to step forward to commit insurrection if they know they are going to jail.

It is imperative then, for conservative victory and the preservation of their delusional world view to have a large body of operatives willing to throw themselves as kindling of the fire and that will mean a belief they will be pardoned as valiant Christian or any other kind of soldiers. Abbott is dangerously fanatically insane and a liberal form of government is powerless to act on that fact with confidence. We will have to wait and see if the country falls and afterward who wins the the Civil War 11.

Clearly human history has shown as that there are no evil people, no shit people, and we should just talk things out.

You are the very definition of any enabler of any of the worst human atrocities that have happened in human history. Get a clue.

 

[BoomerD]

Clearly human history has shown as that there are no evil people, no shit people, and we should just talk things out.

You are the very definition of any enabler of any of the worst human atrocities that have happened in human history. Get a clue.

You some kind of fckn hippie? Just kill them all...let Gawd sort them out.

 

[A///]

I know we're of a certain age average here but you all need to take some memory meds. If Abbott goes and pardons this lowlife piece of trash then it'll spark riots within Texas. Shit it's happened before. This should not be a surprise to anyone. Then the feds will step in. Let stupid people, such as abbott, do what they want to do then hang them out to dry.

Abbott seems like he has the balls to make such a stupid move. Maybe desantis can learn something instead of being told to pound sand and taking Donny's balls out of his mouth.

 

[Ken g6]

Abbot wants to pardon this guy, and is promising to, but "the state’s board of pardons and paroles" has to decide someone's worth pardoning first. So Abbot's promising stuff like politicians do, but I doubt even he expects it to actually happen.

 

[gothuevos]

So now you can be shot and killed simply because someone THINKS you might take a threatening posture towards them. And if you live in a red state, your governor will pardon them! Cool, cool, cool.

I remember when pardons were mostly for drug offenses and other low level shit...seems like we are ok pardoning convicted murderers now?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1645265286356934656

 

[Vic]

Right-wing violence is sanctioned by the state of TX.

 

[SMOGZINN]

So now you can be shot and killed simply because someone THINKS you might take a threatening posture towards them. And if you live in a red state, your governor will pardon them! Cool, cool, cool.

Come on, at least in Texas it is more complex than that and you know it. We first need to know the relative color of the two people's skins.

 

[Moonbeam]

I know we're of a certain age average here but you all need to take some memory meds. If Abbott goes and pardons this lowlife piece of trash then it'll spark riots within Texas. Shit it's happened before. This should not be a surprise to anyone. Then the feds will step in. Let stupid people, such as abbott, do what they want to do then hang them out to dry.

Abbott seems like he has the balls to make such a stupid move. Maybe desantis can learn something instead of being told to pound sand and taking Donny's balls out of his mouth.

In today's Republican party the biggest idiot wins and the competition is intense.

 

[Moonbeam]

Abbot wants to pardon this guy, and is promising to, but "the state’s board of pardons and paroles" has to decide someone's worth pardoning first. So Abbot's promising stuff like politicians do, but I doubt even he expects it to actually happen.

You don’t have to pardon anyone in reality to encourage violence. You just have to give others the feeling that violence will earn authoritarian praise. Bootlickers do the work for the cunning who manipulate them.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Abbot wants to pardon this guy, and is promising to, but "the state’s board of pardons and paroles" has to decide someone's worth pardoning first. So Abbot's promising stuff like politicians do, but I doubt even he expects it to actually happen.

He's virtue signaling. In this case, the virtue he's encouraging is Texas supports deadly assaults on BLM protests. First by vehicle, then by gun.

Sgt Perry is a shitty hill to die on. He posted online about killing BLM protesters, then made it happen. Abbott DGAF though because his supporters believe in their right to gun down anyone they don't like.

 

[A///]

Sgt Perry is a shitty hill to die on. He posted online about killing BLM protesters, then made it happen. Abbott DGAF though because his supporters believe in their right to gun down anyone they don't like.

246 people died in 2021 under his watch not due to covid. you think this will end his career? You must be dreaming. Republican voting states will take anything and still vote republican. it's a perpetual state of self fucking over.

 

[ch33zw1z]

246 people died in 2021 under his watch not due to covid. you think this will end his career? You must be dreaming. Republican voting states will take anything and still vote republican. it's a perpetual state of self fucking over.

No, I really don’t think this will end his career.