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TexasTowelie

(111,912 posts)
Sun May 14, 2017, 09:55 PM May 2017

Jury Awards Parents $11 Million in Death of Their Son Who Called 911 For Help and Ended up Cuffed,


Jamail Amron, left, with his father, Ali. They played on a community soccer league together. The photo was taken months before his death.
Courtesy of Ali Amron


Jury Awards Parents $11 Million in Death of Their Son Who Called 911 For Help and Ended up Cuffed, Beaten and Dead.

Their son had been pronounced dead for nearly 12 hours before deputy constables came knocking on Barbara Coats and Ali Amron's front door.

Amron and Coats had spent the morning calling every hospital they could think of after learning that their 23-year-old son, Jamail Amron, had been taken away in an ambulance from a Burger King parking lot around 2 o'clock that morning.

Now the Harris County Precinct 4 deputies had perplexing news: Jamail had suffered a heart attack and died while drinking a cup of water on the curb.

Amron, refusing to believe it was true, drove to the Burger King that night and found Cindy Lansford, the manager on duty the night Jamail died. When Amron identified himself, asking, "Did you see what happened to my son?" Lansford began to cry.

Read more: http://www.houstonpress.com/news/family-wins-11-million-judgment-for-sons-wrongful-death-at-hands-of-harris-county-deputies-paramedics-9433496
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Jury Awards Parents $11 Million in Death of Their Son Who Called 911 For Help and Ended up Cuffed, (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2017 OP
All the deputies involved were let go but never charged . They are working somewhere lunasun May 2017 #1

lunasun

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1. All the deputies involved were let go but never charged . They are working somewhere
Sun May 14, 2017, 10:11 PM
May 2017

else now and probably won't think twice about doing it again or will hide it better

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