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Posted Tuesday 6/01/21 at 10:45AM EDT
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signs Javier Ambler Act to ban the state's police departments from participating in reality shows
The Javier Ambler Act is named after Javier Ambler, whose 2019 death during a police stop that was filmed by...
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Texas may ban police cooperation with reality shows after Live PD filmed a man's death in custody
Live PD was canceled last June shortly after the revelation that the A&E reality show filmed the police killing of...
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Texas sheriff indicted for the destruction of Live PD footage of deputies killing a Black man
A grand jury today indicted Williamson County Sheriff Robert Chody on a felony evidence tampering charge in the destruction of...
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Posted Friday 6/12/20 at 4:24AM EDT
Inside Live PD's cancelation: "All involved bristled at the notion of Live PD being lumped in with Cops"
Insiders at the cable network felt they ultimately had no option but to cancel Live PD at this moment of...
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Posted Thursday 6/11/20 at 6:06PM EDT
Dan Abrams wishes Live PD didn't destroy its footage of Javier Ambler's death while in police custody
The Live PD host wrote on his Law and Crime website that the show would never have aired Ambler's death...
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A&E cancels Live PD, one of cable's highest-rated shows, in wake of the George Floyd protests
A&E and Live PD producer MGM’s Big Fish Entertainment jointly agreed today to pull the plug on the cop reality...
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Posted Wednesday 6/10/20 at 4:34AM EDT
A&E says Live PD footage from last year of a black man's violent death in police custody in Austin has been destroyed
The A&E reality show was filming in March 2019 when 40-year-old Javier Ambler died while deputies were trying to arrest...
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Posted Tuesday 6/09/20 at 7:16PM EDT
A black man's violent death in police custody last year was filmed for Live PD
The A&E reality show's cameras were rolling in March 2019 when Javier Ambler, 40, was stopped by a Williamson County...