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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  rem...

In the land of the free, revenue collectors, otherwise  referred to as   law enforcement officials  are tasked with the enforcement of arbitrary traffic “laws.” Many  of those  laws are designed —  to not  keep society safe — but to extract revenue from citizens to fund government operations. As reported over the years, police are authorized to use violence to enforce these laws  and can  escalate their use of force to potentially deadly actions  to confirm  compliance.  because the  following video shows, police  don't have any  problem resorting to deadly force over parking tickets and window tint. Last month, 30-year-old Travis Elster was harming  nobody  as he waited for his mother inside a takeout restaurant. However,  the very fact  that he was harming  nobody  was of no concern to  the 2  LAPD officers who targeted him for revenue collection and harassment. When offi...