Ex-deputies indicted in Black man’s death

Two former Texas sheriff ’s deputies were arrested Tuesday on manslaughter charges in the 2019 death of a man whom they shocked with stun guns after a police chase that was filmed by realtime police TV series “Live PD,” authorities said.

The charges are the first directly tied to the death of Javier Ambler, a Black man whose car deputies chased for 22 minutes after trying to pull him over for allegedly failing to dim his headlights to oncoming traffic. Ambler, a former postal worker, died after deputies repeatedly used stun guns on him, despite his pleas that he was sick and couldn’t breathe. The stop in suburban Austin was caught on camera by “Live PD,” which was canceled by the A&E Network in June.

Former Williamson County Sheriff ’s Deputies James Johnson, 36, and Zachary Camden, 26, were both charged Monday with second-degree manslaughter, Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza said. Johnson, who initiated the traffic stop, is Black. Camden is white. They were booked into a Travis County jail on Tuesday and released on $150,000 bond each within an hour, according to a spokeswoman.

Defense attorneys for the former deputies dismissed the indictments as political and said Ambler’s death was the result of heart disease and his “physical exertion in resisting” the deputies. been on hold in Summer Zervos’ defamation lawsuit since Trump asked the high court last year to declare that the presidency protected him from being sued in state courts. In a one-sentence ruling, the Court of Appeals tossed Trump’s appeal as moot now that he’s out of the White House.

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