The sheriff is facing a felony charge of tampering with evidence connected to the death of Javier Ambler, a 40-year-old Black man.
A Texas sheriff has been indicted by a grand jury that accused him of destroying video evidence of the death of a Black man in police custody.
The grand jury's indictment says Chody acted to"destroy, or conceal a record, document, or thing; namely, video recordings and audio recordings, with intent to impair their availability as evidence in the investigation," local NBC affiliate KXAN reported.first reported on Ambler's death in June of this year., an A&E reality show that was filming the officers during Ambler's arrest, confirmed that video evidence of his death had been destroyed.
However, the Austin Police Department and the Travis County district attorney were still trying to obtain thefootage when it was destroyed. Back in June, the attorneys general for Travis and Williamson counties said they were investigating the circumstances surrounding Ambler's death.Williamson County deputies J.J. Johnson and Zach Camden were the officers who chased Ambler and arrested him in 2019. They shot him with the stun gun even though he told them he had a heart condition.
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