{"id":28795,"date":"2020-06-09T16:02:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T21:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=28795"},"modified":"2020-06-09T16:02:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T21:02:49","slug":"watch-former-texas-postal-employee-dies-after-being-tased-by-cops-filming-live-pd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/06\/09\/watch-former-texas-postal-employee-dies-after-being-tased-by-cops-filming-live-pd\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Former Texas Postal Employee Dies After Being Tased by Cops Filming Live PD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f3ImbJhZ9Bc\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Javier Ambler was driving home from a friendly poker game in the early hours of March 28, 2019, when a Williamson County sheriff\u2019s deputy noticed that he failed to dim the headlights of his SUV to oncoming traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-eight minutes later, the black father of two sons lay dying on a North Austin street after deputies held him down and used Tasers on him four times while a crew from A&amp;E\u2019s reality show \u201cLive PD\u201d filmed.<\/p>\n<p>Ambler, a 40-year-old former postal worker, repeatedly pleaded for mercy, telling deputies he had congestive heart failure and couldn\u2019t breathe. He cried, \u201cSave me,\u201d before deputies deployed a final shock.<\/p>\n<p>His death never made headlines. Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/20200608\/austin-area-police-chase-ends-in-death-as-lsquolive-pdrsquo-cameras-roll\">Statesman News Network<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/06\/09\/black-man-died-after-being-tased-while-saying-i-cant-breathe\/\">NY Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28796\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Javier-Ambler.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Javier-Ambler.jpg 475w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Javier-Ambler-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Javier Ambler was driving home from a friendly poker game in the early hours of March 28, 2019, when a Williamson County sheriff\u2019s deputy noticed that he failed to dim the headlights of his SUV to oncoming traffic. Twenty-eight minutes later, the black father of two sons lay dying on a North Austin street after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28797,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28795\/revisions\/28797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}