Essence Magazine:
By Melissa Noel ·Updated May 11, 2023
A U.S. Army sergeant was sentenced to 25 years in prison Wednesday for fatally shooting a Black Lives Matter protester in Texas in 2020, despite calls from the state’s Republican governor Greg Abbot to pardon him.
In early April, a jury found 36-year-old Daniel Perry guilty of murdering Garrett Foster during the protest in downtown Austin in 2020.
“After three long years, we’re finally getting justice for
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