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A district attorney in Texas is investigating the death of 40-year-old Javier Ambler while he was being arrested last year.
Here’s what happened.
On March 28, 2019 Williamson County Sheriff deputies were pursuing Ambler just after 1 in the morning.
According to a Sheriff’s Department incident report, Ambler failed to dim his car’s headlights as he drove past the deputy.
The report says Ambler tried to flee, leading officers on a 22 minute pursuit that ended up in the city of Austin.
The incident report says Ambler crashed his car five times during the pursuit.
And that’s where the officer’s body camera footage captures how the arrest turned deadly.
The video of that arrest has been made public.
Because the video is from a body camera, the images are very erratic.
And we do want to warn you that at one point, Ambler’s unconscious body is shown.
That image may be disturbing to some viewers.
According to documents obtained by CNN, Ambler exited his car with his hands up.
He was not intoxicated and unarmed.
Officers tried to handcuff Ambler but say he resisted and refused to follow the verbal commands.
But video captures Ambler in distress saying that he had congestive heart failure and multiple times he is heard saying he can’t breathe and that he was not resisting.
Several minutes into the arrest, officers realize Ambler is unresponsive.
Officers then unhandcuff Ambler and can be heard administering CPR compressions until medical units arrive on the scene.
Ambler was later pronounced dead.
The Williamson County Sheriff’s Department says the officers involved in the arrests acted “in accordance with the guidelines” and “use objective reasonableness in the level of force used.”
Posted – 6.9.20