The new date is Dec 14, 2021.
A wrongful death lawsuit has been settled by the police department near Austin, Texas, after a black man died in their custody while filming a reality show.
Two police officers are standing in front of The Alamo.
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The commissioners court in the county just north of Austin voted Tuesday to approve a $5 million settlement in the wrongful death lawsuit.
The settlement will be covered by the county's insurance.
An investigation by the Austin American-Statesman and the local station KVUE shows that police pursued Ambler after he didn't dim his headlights in the direction of oncoming traffic. J.J. Johnson followed Ambler for 22 minutes before he crashed his car north of downtown Austin. Johnson and Camden told Ambler to lay on his stomach and tasered him four times as he resisted. According to the report, he told them he couldn't breathe and had heart failure before they tasered him. They realized that he was not breathing after handcuffing him. The man was pronounced dead at the hospital.
The number is big.
$27 million. The family of George Floyd, a Black man who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer during an arrest, was awarded the largest civil rights settlement in US history.
The key background.
The LivePD camera crew was filming the arrest of Ambler, but the footage was deleted before his death was reported. Chody was indicted for evidence tampering. Chody, who became a millionaire after winning the lottery, lost his bid for reelection as the sheriff of the conservative county to a retired deputy. Johnson and Camden will be in court Tuesday on manslaughter charges. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill in May prohibiting police departments from participating in reality television shows.
Police are not allowed to work with reality TV shows in Texas.
The sheriff of Texas was indicted over the death of a black man in police custody.
There are cases of black men dying in police custody.
Austin area police chase ends in death as cameras roll.
