Post by the Scribe on Jun 11, 2020 0:41:27 GMT
Report: 'Live PD' Says It Destroyed Video Of Black Man Dying In Police Custody
www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/10/874469622/report-live-pd-says-it-destroyed-video-of-black-man-dying-in-police-custody
June 10, 20208:17 PM ET
Brakkton Booker at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., November 7, 2018.
In this image made from a March 28, 2019, body camera video provided by the Austin Police Department in Texas, Williamson County deputies hold down Javier Ambler as one of them uses a stun gun on his during his arrest in Austin. He eventually died.
Austin Police Department via AP/AP
Video captured by a reality television production crew showing the death of black man while he was in the custody of law enforcement officers in Texas, has reportedly been destroyed, according to an Austin newspaper.
That means the footage "can no longer be turned over to Austin investigators," reports the Austin American-Statesmen, which was in touch with representatives for the unscripted series Live PD on Tuesday.
Requests for comment to A&E, the cable network that produces the show, were not returned before NPR published this story.
The revelation about the destruction of the video comes after the Statesmen and Austin-based ABC affiliate KVUE reported this week on the details of the March 2019 death of Javier Ambler.
They also obtained body camera footage from an Austin police officer showing Ambler's final moments.
These events come to light as the United States is confronting decades of issues surrounding systemic racism and chronic mistreatment of minority communities by police. The death of George Floyd, a black man, who died last month when a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes has sparked protests in the U.S. and internationally.
Aside from their deaths being captured on video, there are other similarities in the way both men died.
Police body-cam footage: Javier Ambler's fatal encounter with Williamson County Sheriff's deputies
91,516 views•Jun 8, 2020
Austin American-Statesman
On March 28, 2019, an Austin police officer's body camera video revealed the final minutes of 40-year-old Javier Ambler's life as he lay dying in North Austin after deputies held him down and tased him four times. Ambler was originally stopped by Williamson County Sheriff's deputies when he failed to dim his headlights to oncoming traffic. When Ambler did not stop, deputies chased him for 20 minutes until Ambler eventually crashed his vehicle. A crew from A&E's reality show "Live PD" filmed as Ambler gasped some of his final words, “I have congestive heart failure,” Ambler said. “I can’t breathe.”
www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/10/874469622/report-live-pd-says-it-destroyed-video-of-black-man-dying-in-police-custody
June 10, 20208:17 PM ET
Brakkton Booker at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., November 7, 2018.
In this image made from a March 28, 2019, body camera video provided by the Austin Police Department in Texas, Williamson County deputies hold down Javier Ambler as one of them uses a stun gun on his during his arrest in Austin. He eventually died.
Austin Police Department via AP/AP
Video captured by a reality television production crew showing the death of black man while he was in the custody of law enforcement officers in Texas, has reportedly been destroyed, according to an Austin newspaper.
That means the footage "can no longer be turned over to Austin investigators," reports the Austin American-Statesmen, which was in touch with representatives for the unscripted series Live PD on Tuesday.
Requests for comment to A&E, the cable network that produces the show, were not returned before NPR published this story.
The revelation about the destruction of the video comes after the Statesmen and Austin-based ABC affiliate KVUE reported this week on the details of the March 2019 death of Javier Ambler.
They also obtained body camera footage from an Austin police officer showing Ambler's final moments.
These events come to light as the United States is confronting decades of issues surrounding systemic racism and chronic mistreatment of minority communities by police. The death of George Floyd, a black man, who died last month when a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes has sparked protests in the U.S. and internationally.
Aside from their deaths being captured on video, there are other similarities in the way both men died.
Police body-cam footage: Javier Ambler's fatal encounter with Williamson County Sheriff's deputies
91,516 views•Jun 8, 2020
Austin American-Statesman
On March 28, 2019, an Austin police officer's body camera video revealed the final minutes of 40-year-old Javier Ambler's life as he lay dying in North Austin after deputies held him down and tased him four times. Ambler was originally stopped by Williamson County Sheriff's deputies when he failed to dim his headlights to oncoming traffic. When Ambler did not stop, deputies chased him for 20 minutes until Ambler eventually crashed his vehicle. A crew from A&E's reality show "Live PD" filmed as Ambler gasped some of his final words, “I have congestive heart failure,” Ambler said. “I can’t breathe.”