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COPS/Metro Holds Memorial to The Lost Featuring "Stunning" Installation to Spur Change

[Photo Credit: Reform Austin]

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"More than a hundred people marched from St. Michael's Catholic Church to the Alamodome on Saturday to hang around 2000 t-shirts in front of the parking lot. 

Each shirt represented a life lost to gun violence in Bexar County. Most shirts had a name, age, and date of death but there were also shirts that simply said "another life stolen." Those represented suicide victims.

"We think it will be stunning,” said COPS/Metro Southeast Side leader Sonia Rodriguez, and reflect a community “fed up with gun violence.”

San Antonio Unites Against Gun Violence, Community Takes Action, Reform Austin [pdf]
Advocates Hang T-Shirts to Spotlight Gun Violence in Bexar County, Kens5 [pdf]

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