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Anthoneil Williams II, 17, was holding a water bottle, not a gun, when officers opened fire in northeast Austin.
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Camera footage caught Mark Andrew Avery striking and choking a 9-year-old patient with cerebral palsy nearly two dozen times, his mother says.
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