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The New York Times unwillingly ran a good-news story yesterday headlined, “Texas Governor Pardons Man in Fatal Shooting of Protester in 2020.” Last year, Uber driver and Army veteran Daniel Perry was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison for shooting a white BLM protestor during the 2020 summer riots, after the masked protestor blocked Perry’s car and aimed an AK-47 at him.

Despite that the deceased protestor was white, prosecutors still presented evidence to the jury of racist comments Perry had made online, as well as comments about his dislike for the 2020 protests, and put on psychological experts who called the hapless driver “basically a loaded gun.” The jury rejected Perry’s self-defense argument, found him guilty on all counts, and the judge imposed the maximum sentence. Then the Army dishonorably discharged Perry from active duty.

This week, Texas’s Board of Pardons and Paroles reviewed Perry’s case and recommended he be pardoned. Governor Abbott promptly issued the pardon, and also took the chance to swipe at the Soros-funded DA who’d prosecuted poor Perry. Governor Abbott wrote that DA José Garza did not pursue justice, but rather “demonstrated unethical and biased misuse of his office in prosecuting Daniel Scott Perry.”

Governor Abbott further explained in the pardon, “District Attorney Garza directed the lead detective investigating Daniel Scott Perry to withhold exculpatory evidence from the grand jury considering whether to report an indictment.” Among other things, a detective called by prosecutors signed an affidavit saying DA Garza had ordered him to remove over 100 items of exculpatory evidence from his testimony.

In maybe the best good news, DA Garza — like Trump-prosecuting DA Fani Willis — now finds himself under investigation. The woke Texas DA is currently facing a proceeding that could remove him from office under a new law signed by the Governor that limits local prosecutors’ discretion.

Perry’s pardon has ignited a small firestorm of disorganized controversy. Corproate media knows it’s upset, but it isn’t sure what exactly to be upset about. They want so badly for the case to be about systemic racism. But they keep crunching the numbers and it’s never coming out right.

As far as I can tell, based on how many column inches they devote to Perry’s irrelevant beliefs, corporate media’s main problem with Daniel Perry is that he’s got the wrong politics, so he’s a bad person.