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GEORGETOWN, Texas (AP) — A Texas county approved a $5 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement Tuesday with the family of a man who sheriff's deputies shocked with stun guns after
Commissioners in Williamson County approved a settlement with the family of Javier Ambler, a Black man whose car deputies chased after trying to pull him over for allegedly failing to dim his headlights. Body camera footage showed Ambler telling the deputies he was not resisting.
Commissioners have agreed to give Ambler‘s family $5 million, with $1.6 million of it paid directly by the county with the remainder coming from the county’s insurance.
The wrongful death lawsuit claimed that Ambler died in 2019 after deputies shot him with a Taser while he told them he could not breathe.
Texas's Williamson County has settled the case of a 40-year-old Black man who died during his 2019 arrest after telling officers he could not breathe.