Texas county OKs $5M settlement over Black motorist's death

GEORGETOWN, Texas (AP) — A Texas region has approved a $5 cardinal wrongful decease suit colony with the household of a antheral who sheriff's deputies shocked with stun guns aft a 2019 chase.

The postulation halt was filmed by real-time constabulary TV bid "Live PD" that A&E Networks canceled past year.

Commissioners successful suburban Williamson County approved the colony Tuesday with the household of Javier Ambler.

The Black erstwhile postal idiosyncratic died aft deputies repeatedly utilized stun guns connected him contempt his pleas that helium was sick and couldn't breathe, according to constabulary assemblage camera footage.

He was pulled implicit for allegedly failing to dim his headlights to oncoming traffic.

According to the Associated Press, the county's erstwhile sheriff, Robert Chody, was indicted successful April for grounds tampering.

The news outlet reported that 2 erstwhile deputies, 36-year-old James Johnson and 26-year-old Zachary Camden were charged with manslaughter.

They person each denied wrongdoing.

A&E Network canceled "Live PD" past year, the AP reported.