You can tell a lot about someone by seeing how they react to the name Daniel Perry's name doesn't have any special salience to me. Not really. But if you flipped

on Fox News over the last year, you might have noticed the way the name

Daniel Perry became synonymous with a certain kind of injustice.

First to the case of Daniel Perry in Texas, Perry's an Army sergeant.

Daniel Perry is a former Uber driver and a veteran.

In 2020, he drove his car into a Black Lives Matter protest in Austin, Texas.

Then he took out a revolver and shot a protester five times, killing him.

A jury found Sergeant Daniel Perry guilty of murdering Air Force veteran Garrett Foster.

Perry says it was self-defense.

He claims Foster pointed at me.

Certainly to a lot of people in Texas,

Daniel Perry is a hero.

Since Perry's arrest, journalist Christopher Hooks has been following his case as it moved through the courts.

He's somebody who did something that a lot of people wanted to do which is to use force on the protesters

that emerged in Texas in 2020. Daniel Perry was convicted of murder last year, right?

Daniel Perry was brought before a jury of his peers

who heard the argument that he was acting in self-defense

and did not accept it. And was sentenced to 25 years for murder.

How much of that time will he actually end up serving?

Well, very little. He was pardoned the other day.

The Texas Board of Pardons issued a very unusual recommendation to the governor that he received a full pardon and within an hour of

that recommendation the governor pardoned him and issued a full restitution of

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