By Victor Omondi
As reported by a prosecutor this week on Tuesday, two former sheriff deputies were indicted with second-degree manslaughter charges in the death of a Black driver in 2019. The two ex-deputies reportedly shot the man with a taser several times, despite his pleas that he couldn’t breathe because of heart disease. During their fatal encounter with the driver, the two former deputies were recorded by reality television show, “Live PD.”
The Black driver, Javier Ambler, had reportedly refused to dim his lights for oncoming traffic. He died after the police chased him for 22 minutes. Ambler crashed his car and when the deputies got their hold on him, he said, “I am not resisting. Sir, I can’t breathe. … Please. … Please.” The 40-year-old died as the deputies were struggling to handcuff him.
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Some of the attorneys for the family of former Killeen resident Javier Ambler II are no strangers to cases of Black men who have died in police custody.
Ambler, who was raised in Killeen and went to Ellison High School, died in police custody on March 28, 2019, after a vehicle pursuit by the Williamson County Sheriffâs Office.
The Ambler family is represented by the Edwards Law Group, based in Austin, Ben Crump Law, which has offices across the country, and Romanucci & Blandin, LLC, based in Chicago.
Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci of Romanucci & Blandin, LLC are working together with other law firms to represent the family of George Floyd who died in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. The murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin â who was shown in a video with his knee on Floydâs neck â began this week.