Daniel Perry

Daniel Perry shot Garrett Foster in July 2020 and was convicted based on murder charges in April 2023.

Quotes

• Demands people are making are going to cause a lot of police to die...Fu** your and your protest. #bluelivesmatter. Shoot anyone until they are no longer a threat.
  • Private message to unknown party alleged in 29 March 2023 tweet by Jala Washington of KXAN news

• I might have to kill a few people on my way to work, they are rioting outside my apartment complex.
  • June 2020 message to friend per Brant Bingamon of Austin Chronicle

• Send them to Texas we will show them why we say don't mess with Texas.
  • 5:55pm 19 June 2020 tweet from KnivesFromTrigu (joined December 2013) replying to Donald Trump, per KXAN regarding "protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes"
    • by the time of 31 July 2020 the account had been removed from Twitter

• I made a wrong turn, a guy pointed a freakin weapon at me and I panicked. I don’t know what to do. I’m just an Uber driver. I made a wrong turn; I’ve never had to shoot someone before. They started shooting back at me, and I got out of the area.
  I am scared. I am terrified. I am worried that they are going to go after me, I’ve never had to defend myself before.
  • 25 July 2020 phone-call to 9-1-1 the day of the shooting, per KXAN article

• I believe it was aimed at... I believe he was going to aim it at me. I didn't want to give him a chance to aim at me, ya know?
  • July 2020 video interview with Detective David Fugitt, when asked by Fugitt "was it aimed at you?"
    • Fugitt in August 2021 wrote “I firmly believe the District Attorney’s Office, acting under the authority of José P. Garza, tampered with me as a witness.”

"What we know: Get up to date on Daniel Perry murder conviction, Abbott's talk of pardon" (2023)

As quoted in "What we know: Get up to date on Daniel Perry murder conviction, Abbott's talk of pardon" (April 10, 2023)

• I wonder if they will let me cut off the ears of people who decide to commit suicide by me.

• If they attack me or try to pull me out of my car then yes.
  • when asked "Can you legally do so?" by friend

• I have been publicly declared a racist because I drove around a protest to work.
  I am afraid of being attacked by people of this certain movement who happen to compare my people (Jewish people) to termites.

• Just keep shooting them until they are no longer a threat.

• I might go to Dallas to shoot looters.
  • May 2020, described as "another occasion" per Brant Bingamon of Austin Chronicle

• I didn't even know what they were protesting about.

About

• I could tell that he was visibly distraught, I could hear the nervousness, the quiver in his voice. He said the protesters were attacking his vehicle.
  • 31 March 2023 testimony by Officer Joshua Visi ^{[citation needed]}

• Initially at 11.9 mph, [Perry] starts to decelerate or slow down to the apex of the turn to 9.8 mph and then continues to slow down until he comes to a stop.
  We were able to show, and actually know, that a tenth of a second before the first shot fired that Mr. Foster was 18 inches from the driver’s door.
  Ultimately able to show that you were able to see Mr. Foster from the area of his mid-thigh all the way to the top of his head.
  We didn’t do any trajectory analysis.
  I know in our analysis, we determined that the frame for the 22nd clip showed both of his feet on the ground in that one frame.
  • 4 April 2023 testimony by forensic engineer Jason Evans per Fox Austin