DPS Homeland Security Division works to prevent targeted violence, foreign adversaries

The attack in Austin on Sunday is a tragic reminder of the persistent threat of targeted violence in Texas.

“It’s difficult for us to identify someone on the front and before they, before they mobilize like this person did in Austin,” Chief Gerald Brown with DPS’s Homeland Security Division said.

Brown tells NBC 5 that one of law enforcement’s growing challenges is decentralized radicalization and blurred motivations or blended ideologies, but Brown says there are signs…

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