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Acevedo’s remarks about McQuilliams case rile conservative bloggers
On Monday, Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo gave a detailed account of the downtown shooting that left Austin police headquarters pockmarked with bullet holes, but several conservative bloggers this week were blasting Acevedo over one of his comments.
Police say the man responsible for the shooting, Larry Steven McQuilliams, aligned himself with an ultra-conservative, anti-Semitic, Christian movement called the Phineas Priesthood. McQuilliams, Acevedo said, was a homegrown extremist — just the kind of person that “keeps me up at night,” Acevedo said during the 36-minute news conference.
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