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Public Distrust

JAVIER SALAZAR HAS BOUNCED BETWEEN SCANDALS SINCE he took over the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office in 2017. During his first year, the department drew national attention after deputies gunned down a woman wielding a metal pipe they’d mistaken for a gun, killing a 6-year-old bystander in the process.

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