“Thurmond has for more than a year failed to properly develop and/or execute a plan that would lead to a reduction in the number of killings and mass shootings in Birmingham,” State Representative Juandalynn Givan said in a statement shortly after September's mass shooting.
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And everyone in this room knows that," Givan said, referring to affluent majority-white cities in the Birmingham area.
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