Texas Governor Greg Abbott is calling for the pardon of a U.S. Army sergeant convicted of the 2020 murder of a Black Lives Matter protester. In a Saturday tweet, the Republican governor said Daniel Perry was acting in self-defense when he shot and killed Garrett Foster at a BLM rally in Austin in July 2020. Abbott stated that he asked the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to send a pardon recommendation to him for his approval as quickly as possible.