Sheriff who starred on 'Live PD' charged with evidence tampering in Black man's death

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A Texas sheriff who starred on the controversial reality show 'Live PD' was arrested Monday on evidence tampering charges in the case of a Black man who died in police custody.

Williamson County Sheriff Robert Chody starred on the since-canceled reality show "Live PD."

Williamson County Sheriff Robert Chody is accused of destroying or concealing audio and video footage that showed his deputiesThe footage was captured by Live PD cameras on the night that Ambler, a former postal worker and the father of two, died following a 22-minute car chase by Williamson County deputies.

Both men were indicted on a felony evidence tampering charge. They’re expected to be arraigned Monday afternoon. Ambler’s final moments were captured on police body cameras, but prosecutors had sought the Live PD footage because it likely offered the clearest view of the fatal confrontation.

 

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The sheriff also participated in rape jokes & encouraging violence against Black NFL players who kneeled to protest police brutality. He deserves all that’s coming to him.

Chase and kill an innocent man for not dimming his headlights. •sigh• Being black in America is existential hazard that’s for sure

Exactly how was “Live PD” controversial? The phrasing further demonstrates NBC “News” agenda.

StopTheMadnessStopTrump

Here we go again. Evil white man! 🤦‍♂️

I lived in Williamson County when the DA was arrested for covering up evidence on a capital murder case when it was overturned on appeal, freeing an INNOCENT MAN from Death Row This crooked Sheriff is not new. They're ALL greedy Republicans. TexasBlue2020.

But ... but ... but .. he's a TV star!

The commodification of racism. ThisIsAmeriKKKa

OfficialLivePD danabrams Not a very good look when the Producers of LivePD are hindering an investigation. A man is dead. LivePD ought to have released the footage without any issues in order for the DA to do its job.

Why was LivePD allowed to get away with not releasing the footage? Why are they partaking in interfering with an investigation? danabrams If LivePD expects to be accountable & transparent they should have released the footage to the DA.

Riot Time

We say there are good cops and bad cops. But if good cops don't stop bad cops, then they are all bad cops. Cops 'See something, say something' clean up your departments. blueLivesMatter

A few bad apples becoming a whole damn orchard...

....williamson county.... erinelizabitch

So sad that you're arrogant Behavior pulled you down very sad

White Supremacists love being police officers.

Williamson County, Texas, which used to be a conservative stronghold, and law enforcement was known to be 'assertive'. But this county has been turning Bluer since 2016.

'Deputies began pursuing Ambler for allegedly failing to dim his headlights to oncoming traffic' That shouldn't result in being murdered

There is no such thing as a black' man. humans do not come in a black' form.

Not surprising

It's TexASS! The 2nd most embarrassing state in the union next to Florida.

Shocker. Not.

“Controversial” 🙄

ACAB includes cops on tv shows too

The Sherriff destroying recorded evidence in a killing of someone. Shocking..

This happens all the time, unfortunately.

Sifill_LDF As much fun as it is to watchBrad Parscale get his a$$ kicked by cops, I thought they were heavy unnecessarily heavy handed. 7 cops in swat uniforms? Really? Throwing an unarmed, not resisting suspect to the ground, hard. I can only imagine how they treat POCs. Unnecessary, IMHO

How very unsurprising. ACAB DefundThePolice ACAB

Sifill_LDF Lock his ass up. We cannot allow the police to be the criminals.

Sifill_LDF justafewbadapples

PattyArquette Disgusting 😡

Controversial Police Show!!!! THEIR RATINGS KICKED YOUR ASS, NOT EVEN CLOSE!!!

No way! Cops lie and tamper with evidence? And most of them get away with it. 😒 DefundThePolice EndQualifiedImmunity

There is a simple solution to all of this, have the Police cameras download directly to the cloud where it can't be deleted. Technology can be used to our advantage sometimes. texasgov georgiagov AlabamaGovUSA donwinslow AdamParkhomenko

Incest breeds bad people

He blamed his misconduct on the 'election year.' Make sure this racist never wears a badge again.

Great work. This is real police reform.

What!!? No way!! Thinking of the man who died in custody. 🕊

Kamala Harris tampered with Evidence to keep black men in jail, but she wasn't arrested. Weird

Texas? No way. 😂

hm

Interesting every time they get caught killing African Americans they claim political motivations.

DefundThePolice

Live PD wasn't controversial. It was a show where they followed cops on call. It only became controversial when companies decided to burn any association they had with the police. The show was good. That doesn't relate to Black Lives Matter. It was just a good show.

kpjpsp Will said sheriff ironically now star in Live PD?

When it’s white cop and black suspect the race is always announced in order to incite that it was race related, but black cop and white suspect the race never gets mentioned. Media needs to be held accountable for inciting riots...or report it both ways.

Good

That show was great and you babies got it cancelled

Naturally.

He's the rule, not the exception.

BlackLivesMatter

As he should be, why was there a delay in this justice?

Bag stud 😡

Something something something...bad apples

And it's amazing how many of you fools didnt read the story. Half of you morons think he actually killed the guy. The deputies did everything correctly and used less lethal weapons.

Beware of reality stars in any show

iusedtoloveherG Support jamestalarico who has been on this from the beginning:

This is very hard to believe. Very. Okay, not at all difficult.

Imagine that!

Honestly and integrity lol 😆 😂 🤣 😅 🙃 POS

Just a few bad apples, right? Seems like there are only a few good ones.

Live PD sucked...they made my county look like it was a homogeneous collection of dirtbags and crackheads...even though that couldn't be farther from the truth. Dan Abrams is a law enforcement fanboy/ rich kid that doesn't care about communities...but about his cash flow.

Is this different from the Texas sheriff who raped kids?

You don't say

(Isaiah 2: 4). “He who rejects me and does not receive my words has his judge; the word which I spoke, she shall judge him at the last day '(John 12:48).

Lifetime when proven guilty. IMO

Tactical sunglasses = yes. Asshole = yes.

Does this really surprise anyone?

ABC's GMA's Dan Abrams also should be arrested because he was on that same outing when the man died. He also tried to cover it up.

Sounds about white

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Get them out!! Not ok.

but Protect and Serve, right?

Why are these types of stories surprising to hear ?

So will they go protest again?

The Gleason campaign's statement,

The evidence keeps piling up. I don't need any more justification to teach my kids that cops are the bad guys.

BetteVCollins Betcha five dollars he votes GOP

CorporatePiggie First trump and now this guy. Two days and two criminal reality stars.

Tom_Winter What else is new? When you have a corrupt President, everybody is corrupt.

Who's surprised

Tom_Winter Never thought a popular TV show would get cancelled because it showed too many corrupt being cops.

Fking dirt bag !!!

This has no end does it? Every police department in the country needs to conduct a purge starting with the unions.

Of course he did.

BallotHarvesting

Back the blue....just back the blue.

Slap him, Dave. He won't feel anything, he has no nerves but some nerve! Newson 'unbalanced' escaped, changed bodies and ran away to Chicago!

'Deputies began pursuing Ambler for allegedly failing to dim his headlights to oncoming traffic. ' Seriously? WITAF. This is not worth getting into a pursuit over or use of force. Other depts have changed their pursuit policies and no longer pursue for things like this.

FoxyJackieBrown Is ANYONE surprised Do NOT support these bastards by watching that shitty show-EVER!

Another corrupt police office bites the dust.Xclnt news,

Sad so sad

ya like he will go to prison

👀

Crooked cop, nooooo

ugh

Creepy terrorist

Idiot. This has to stop. BlackLivesMatter

So?

Controversial show? Wow.

Shocker. 😐

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