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Black Lives Matter protester killer Daniel Perry made several racist messages [1]

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Date: 2023-04-16  

Amid Texas governor Greg Abbott (R) seeking a pardon for Daniel Perry, a man who killed a Black Lives Matter protester in Austin with an AK-47, court records have revealed Perry’s penchant for racist remarks. Here are some of the inflammatory comments made by Daniel Perry.

In one message posted publicly less than eight weeks before Foster’s killing, Perry declared: “It is official, I am a racist because I do not agree with people acting like animals at the zoo. I was on the side of the [protesters] until they started with the looting and the violence.” Perry that same day also compared the Black Lives Matter movement to “a zoo full of monkeys that are freaking out flinging their shit”, according to the filings, which were first reported by the Houston Chronicle. Both remarks came at the height of protests held nationwide in the days after the murder of George Floyd, who was Black, by a white Minneapolis police officer. So did another remark from around that time in which Perry said “he might have to kill a few people” staging a demonstration outside his apartment, according to the court filing as well as prior reports. He also authored another post around that time in which he argued that the logos of organizations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Black Entertainment Television and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund were as racist as the Confederate battle flag, which violent white supremacist groups have co-opted as a hate symbol.

On May 29, 2020, days after George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer prompted nationwide protests, Perry sent a text message saying, “I might go to Dallas to shoot looters.” Two days later, according to the records, Perry said in a Facebook message that when he is in Dallas, “no protestors go near me or my car.” “Can you catch me a negro daddy,” the other man replied. “That is what I am hoping,” Perry said. In June, Perry sent text messages from an unknown area detailing bars closing and “the blacks … gathering up in a group I think something is about to happen.” “I wonder if they will let my cut the ears off of people who’s decided to commit suicide by me,” he added. [...] The U.S. Army sergeant also sent racist and anti-Muslim messages before and after Floyd’s death. In April 2020, he sent a meme, which included a photo of a woman holding her child’s head under water in the bath, with the text, “WHEN YOUR DAUGHTERS FIRST CRUSH IS A LITTLE NEGRO BOY,” according to the state’s filing. A year earlier, he messaged someone on Facebook looking for weekend work for active-duty military. “To bad we can’t get paid for hunting Muslims in Europe,” he said.

“Send them to Texas we will show them why we say don’t mess with Texas,” Perry said. He was responding to a tweet by former President Donald Trump, in which Trump wrote that “protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes” in Democrat-led cities would face “a much different scene if they were in Oklahoma. [...] Other items that filing says messages were found on Perry’s phone include a undated meme that uses the n-word and complains about Black people being racist; a meme that advises people “pick up your brass” if they encounter rioters; and a May 29 text to another person that shows a photo of a building with a sign on it that says “WHITE POWER, White county power & light co.”

As Daniel Perry’s fate has yet to be determined, Travis County District Attorney José Garza called for the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to consider the case in its entirety before issuing a final recommendation to Greg Abbott.

x Today, Travis County District Attorney José Garza requested an appointment to present evidence to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles before they make their final recommendation. pic.twitter.com/nbLQ5odjbA — Travis County District Attorney's Office (@DATravisCounty) April 11, 2023

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