Two years ago,
J.J. Johnson and
Zach Camden were among the Williamson County sheriff s deputies featured on the highly rated reality television show
Live PD. Their boss, former Sheriff
Robert Chody, had brought the show to Williamson County and regularly promoted it on social media as a recruiting tool, he said, though he also enjoyed the TV spotlight. County commissioners tried to cancel the contract with the show, which Chody ignored, leading to his being sued by his own county government. But then it was revealed that
Javier Ambler, an unarmed Black man with a heart condition, had died after being chased into Travis County by Johnson and Camden and the