Source: Daily Mail [UK]
“A Texas father has won millions of dollars in a settlement with county officials over his son’s arrest that he argued was staged for a police television show. The Williamson County Sheriff’s Office agreed Tuesday to pay Gary Watsky $2.5million for the SWAT raid at his Cedar Park home in May 2019, when deputies took his son, Asher, into custody, according to Variety. The settlement was approved four to one by county officials without a public discussion. Watsky claimed in a lawsuit against the county, former Sheriff Robert Chody, former lieutenant Mark Luera and former commander Steve Deaton among other deputies, that officers barged into his front and back doors and deployed a nonlethal explosive grenade for the formerly canceled show Live PD. He and his attorney argue the arrest should have come earlier in the day, when Asher was in court on separate charges.” (10/22/24)