Title: Cops Taser, Suffocate Man to Death on LIVE PD Over Failing to Dim His Brights Source:
Austin Statesman URL Source:https://www.statesman.com/news/2020 ... lsquolive-pdrsquo-cameras-roll Published:Jun 8, 2020 Author:Tony Plohetski Post Date:2020-06-10 19:09:21 by Deckard Keywords:None Views:336 Comments:2
Javier Ambler was driving home from a friendly poker game in the early hours of March 28, 2019, when a Williamson County sheriff’s deputy noticed that he failed to dim the headlights of his SUV to oncoming traffic.
Twenty-eight minutes later, the black father of two sons lay dying on a North Austin street after deputies held him down and used Tasers on him four times while a crew from A&E’s reality show “Live PD” filmed.
Ambler, a 40-year-old former postal worker, repeatedly pleaded for mercy, telling deputies he had congestive heart failure and couldn’t breathe. He cried, “Save me,” before deputies deployed a final shock.
His death never made headlines.
Now, after months of questioning and requests for information from the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV, recently released documents and police video shed light on that fatal night at a time when the nation confronts decades of injustice against minorities by law enforcement.
We will never know why Ambler didn’t stop that night, but he had committed no other crime. The most serious charge he would’ve faced would’ve been failing to stop for police. And he died for it.
This man was pursued, pulled out of his car, thrown to the ground, repeatedly shocked, and the air squeezed from his lungs until he died, because he allegedly failed to dim his headlights.
“It is of very serious concern to any of us who are in law enforcement that the decision to engage in that chase was driven by more of a need to provide entertainment than to keep Williamson County citizens safe,” said Travis County District Attorney Margaret Moore.
Indeed. It appears that Johnson initiated a dangerous and deadly chase over something as petty as flashing one’s brights, all so he could make the producers happy at LIVE PD, who consistently put him on the air.
Investigators with the Williamson County sheriff’s department of internal affairs determined in a report that the deputies did not violate the agency’s pursuit or use-of-force policies, according to the Statesman. This was in spite of the fact that Ambler’s death was ruled a homicide.
Showing how the media will often times go hand in hand with killer cops, Live PD reportedly destroyed all footage of Ambler’s death at the hands of police.
This was in spite of the fact that Ambler’s death was ruled a homicide.
Of course it was ruled a homicide. A homicide is when one human being causes the death of another. Doesn't mean it was murder. Buy a clue.
Second, if he had congestive heart failure and hypertensive cardiovascular disease why did he risk his health by leading police on a 22-minute chase? Could his crashing into the trees had any effect? Could his resisting arrest had any effect?
This should have resulted in a simple warning. HE turned it into a death.
