'Live P.D.' Canceled at A&E After Network Admits Show Filmed In-Custody Death, Destroyed Footage

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A&E has pulled the plug on its popular “Live P.D.” police show amid the ongoing George Floyd protests, two days after Texas media reported that the show had destroyed footage of a man being arrested and dying in custody in March 2019.

“This is a critical time in our nation’s history and we have made the decision to cease production on Live PD,” the network said in a statement on Wednesday. “Going forward, we will determine if there is a clear pathway to tell the stories of both the community and the police officers whose role it is to serve them. And with that, we will be meeting with community and civil rights leaders as well as police departments.”

The decision to send the show into retirement comes two days after the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV broke the story that during a shoot in 2019, “Live P.D.” cameras recorded sheriff’s deputies tasing 40-year-old Javier Ambler while he begged for his life. The man died. The show later destroyed the footage.

The network said in a statement to the Statesman that “video of the tragic death of Javier Ambler was captured by body cams worn on the officers involved as well by the producers of Live PD who were riding with certain officers involved.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/live-p-d-canceled-e-010917985.html

[marble falls]

1. They fucking destroyed evidence. Someone needs to convene a Grand Jury.

[RockRaven]

2. Isn't destroying those tapes aiding and abetting a homicide after the fact?

Or something similar?

Sounds like the producers and network should be criminally charged...

[soothsayer]

3. I think it was canceled AND a story came out about the destroyed footage

Not a causal relationship, as far as I understand it. “Cops” was canceled too.

The footage bit they’ve explained, something like: usually keep it 30 days (destroyed pretty quickly as a policy to protect identities or something), kept it longer during investigation of that event because they were asked to, destroyed it after told no longer needed.

I hated that show except for just a few cops. Most felt sleazy as heck.