AUSTIN, Texas — The family of Javier Ambler, a Black man who died in the custody of Williamson County, Texas, sheriff’s deputies in 2019 sued the county, alleging its officers were encouraged to “perform their jobs recklessly to produce more ‘entertaining’ video” for a since-canceled reality television program called "Live PD." Body-camera footage showed that as officers restrained him, Ambler repeatedly told them: “I can’t breathe.”
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