re: ‘Cops’ Canceled By Paramount Network, ‘Live PD’ Return Evaluated By A&E

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It's 99% black on black or black on white crime.

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That’s not true. It’s more like 80%, which is reality based.

It’s not scripted, make believe, liberal propaganda like the other shows in which 99% of the bad guys are white males.

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Seems like the article is missing some key pieces of info....

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Ahh it was buried at the very bottom of the article. Like the 30th paragraph down. Sneaky libs

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When Ambler passed with his brights on at 1:23 a.m., the deputy turned his car around and flipped on the flashing lights.
Ambler didn’t stop. Johnson gave chase.
For the next 22 minutes, the two vehicles sped across highways and onto neighborhood streets, according to an internal investigative report the Statesman obtained under the Texas Public Information Act.

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Ambler smashed his Honda Pilot into stationary objects four times before crashing a final time near East St. Johns and Bethune avenues, just east of Interstate 35 north of downtown Austin at 1:45 a.m.
Johnson, who had no backup at the time, drew his gun and ordered Ambler to get out of his car, raise his hands and get on the ground. Ambler, a 400-pound former football player, got out and showed his hands. Johnson, who is black and about half Ambler’s size, holstered his gun and pulled out his Taser.
“Get down!” Johnson repeated several times.
When Ambler appeared to turn toward his car door, Johnson used his Taser, according to  the report. Ambler fell on one knee, rolled onto his back and stomach and acted as though he was trying to stand.

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Well, besides the general idea that it's bad to turn people's misfortune into entertainment, it's just bad media.

The police departments concerned have almost exclusive editing rights over the footage shown on Cops, and LivePD isn't much better.

What happened that night

As Deputy J.J. Johnson, who is regularly featured on “Live PD,” patrolled the quiet suburban roads just north of Austin last March, a film crew rode along with him.

When Ambler passed with his brights on at 1:23 a.m., the deputy turned his car around and flipped on the flashing lights.

Ambler didn’t stop. Johnson gave chase.

For the next 22 minutes, the two vehicles sped across highways and onto neighborhood streets, according to an internal investigative report the Statesman obtained under the Texas Public Information Act.

As he drove, Johnson narrated for the TV crew, telling them what he thought was going on in Ambler’s mind.

As they crossed into Travis County, Austin officers were instructed not to get involved in the pursuit because they are allowed only to chase dangerous criminals.

Ambler smashed his Honda Pilot into stationary objects four times before crashing a final time near East St. Johns and Bethune avenues, just east of Interstate 35 north of downtown Austin at 1:45 a.m.

Johnson, who had no backup at the time, drew his gun and ordered Ambler to get out of his car, raise his hands and get on the ground. Ambler, a 400-pound former football player, got out and showed his hands. Johnson, who is black and about half Ambler’s size, holstered his gun and pulled out his Taser.

“Get down!” Johnson repeated several times.

When Ambler appeared to turn toward his car door, Johnson used his Taser, according to  the report. Ambler fell on one knee, rolled onto his back and stomach and acted as though he was trying to stand.

“You’ll get it again,” Johnson shouted.

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Backup Deputy Zachary Camden, who is white and was also accompanied by a “Live PD” crew, arrived and shoved his Taser into Ambler’s upper back “in a drive-stun motion.”

As the struggle continued, deputies used a Taser on Ambler a third time, though the report said it was unclear which  man deployed his weapon.

An Austin police officer arrived on the scene as the deputies struggled to put handcuffs on Ambler.

Body camera video from that officer captured the final minutes of Ambler’s life:

Deputies yell at Ambler to lay on his stomach and put his hands behind his back. One presses a Taser into his upper back.

“I have congestive heart failure,” Ambler says. “I have congestive heart failure. I can’t breathe.”

As the deputies scream orders, Ambler, between gasps, tells them he’s trying to follow their commands. Another four times he tells the deputies he can’t breathe.

“I am not resisting,” Ambler cries. “Sir, I can’t breathe. … Please. … Please.”

The deputies, who are on top of Ambler, continue yelling at him to put his arms behind his back.

“Save me,” Ambler cries.

“Do what we’re asking you to do!” a deputy yells.

“I can’t,” Ambler says, the last words the video captures from him just before one of the deputies deploys his Taser a fourth and final time at 1:47 a.m.

Ambler’s hands go limp, and the deputies place handcuffs around his wrists.

Moments later, they realized he was unconscious and his pulse had stopped.

Deputies performed CPR for four minutes until medics arrived.

Medics and doctors at Dell Seton Medical Center worked for 50 minutes to keep Ambler alive. He was pronounced dead at 2:37 a.m.

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"He had friends, black, white, no matter — all different nationalities, all kinds of race, because that is the kind of person he was,” his mother said.


The morning after his death, police arrived at Ambler’s parents’ home in Killeen. The officers were brief, saying only that their son had died in police custody.

"I said, ‘How am I going to tell his mom,’ ” Javier Ambler said. “I broke down. I fell. How am I going to tell his mom?"

Maritza Ambler said she was at her desk at the hospital when she got a call instructing her to rush home.

Police cars were parked outside when she arrived, and a couple of officers rushed her inside as neighbors watched from their front porches.

“I said, ‘What happened?’ And I just lost it,” she said.

“Dads should not have to bury their sons,” Javier Ambler said.

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Troubling questions

Because the chase ended in Austin, the Austin Police Department Special Investigations Unit is investigating with Moore’s Civil Rights Unit.

The Statesman began looking into the case in February after investigators said they were troubled about what they were learning and frustrated that they felt stymied by Williamson County’s failure to cooperate.

But it is unclear how aggressively investigators acted with the information they did have, including what steps they took to obtain video from “Live PD” and how quickly they took them. Moore said she is troubled that the show so far has produced no video.

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There was a death on live pd ( not aired or publicized) so that may be part of the evaluation.

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Well the cop who tazed him was black as well.

That article pushes down the info that he led them on a 20 minute police chase into north Austin and the suspect crashed his car 4 separate times. Not sure what the “friendly poker game” has to do with it, if anything that tells me he was probably drinking.

Here’s the video of the arrest if you’d like to see it: LINK

It's not actually live.

There's enough of a delay that lawyers can view footage to see if they're opening themselves up for lawsuits.

Check out the podcast Running From Cops. Educate yourself.

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99 positive arrests. One negative one.
(by which I mean a loss of temper, slip of the tongue, etc, obviously not killing a guy)

In school that's an A+.

In SJW world that's a job lost.

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In school, that one mistake is a multiple choice question you got wrong.

In law enforcement, that can be one life you've ruined or ended.