The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office is pursuing multiple policy reforms including body cameras for jailers and outside experts to review department standards.
It comes more than four months after a Tarrant jail inmate died while being restrained by jailers in an incident the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled a homicide.
This proposed action came months after conditions inside the Tarrant jail became a flash point in the community.On April 21, Tarrant inmate Anthony Johnson Jr. died while being restrained in the jail, with video of the encounter showing a jailer placing his knee on Johnson’s back before he died. Data from the sheriff’s office showed Johnson is one of at least 64 Tarrant jail inmates who have died in custody since 2017, the third-most of any county in Texas during that time.
NBC 5 went to the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office to ask if these measures were being explored in response to the death of Anthony Johnson Jr.
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