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‘He Can't Breathe!': People Call 911 to Record Cops Allegedly Choking Guy on Roadside

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Following the death of George Floyd in 2020, officials across the country moved to ban  the employment  of carotid restraints —  the sort  of restraint  that always  renders  an individual  unconscious by restricting the flow of blood to the brain by compressing  the edges  of the neck where the carotid arteries are located. In California, the practice was banned statewide. “At  the tip  of the day, the carotid hold that literally  is intended   to prevent  people’s blood from flowing into their brain – that has no place  from now on  in 21st-century practices,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in June. “LAPD banned  the employment  of the chokehold, if  you'll , and limited it to only deadly force situations,” former L.A. County Sheriff Jim McDonnell told local media last year. Despite  the large  pushback against  the harmful  practice, a video uploaded to Twitter  in the week  shows cops  don't have any  problem disregarding the policy and applying the chokehold. On March 30, police r

Cops are arrested for killing a man on 'LIVE PD' for failing to dim headlights and crying, 'I can't breathe.'

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Javier Ambler, a 40-year-old postal worker, was on his way home from a friendly card  when he allegedly made  the error  of failing to dim his headlights when passing another vehicle.  this can be  something everyone who is reading  this text  has likely done at some point in their life. However, because Ambler drove past a Williamson County sheriff’s deputy, an hour later, he’d be dead. Finally, two years after his death, the deputies who squeezed the life out of him as he begged for  assistance on  the now-canceled Live PD show, are being held accountable. A  jury  indicted deputies James Johnson and Zachary Camden on one count of second-degree manslaughter each in Ambler’s death, Travis County  prosecutor  José Garza announced Tuesday. “With these indictments,  we've  taken another critical step towards justice for the Ambler family and for our community,” Garza said. “While  we will  never  remove  the pain of the Ambler family, the  jury  has sent  a transparent  message that