When the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended that Governor Greg Abbott grant clemency to Daniel Perry, the former Army sergeant who murdered a Black Lives Matter protester in Austin in 2020, its seven members were aware of another violent incident in Perry’s past. Police records and court documents obtained by Texas Monthly detail that in 2005, Perry was arrested on a charge that he violently assaulted his younger sister. Travis County district attorney José Garza presented a summary of the class A misdemeanor charge, whose full contents have not been previously reported, to the board in April 2024, six weeks before that entity unanimously advised Abbott to issue a pardon. According to the arrest warrant affidavit, Perry, then eighteen, and his sister, sixteen, were…
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