Austin crime victim's mother rips city council 'cowards' for defunding police, turning citizens into 'targets'
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The grieving mother of a man killed in an Austin, Texas, shooting sent a blistering message to the city council that defunded the police a year earlier.
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"I hope you will follow this [trial] as your duty to your citizens," Kantor continued in her letter. "It was you, the city council and others who defunded the police and welcomed these evil people with no regard for life to run and ruin your city."
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