Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy Cameron Brewer shot and killed Danny Ray Thomas, an unarmed man having a mental health crisis, in March 2018. Brewer was fired one month after the shooting for violating use-of-force policy:contentReference[oaicite:66]{index=66}:contentReference[oaicite:67]{index=67}, and a grand jury indicted him for aggravated assault by a public servant in Thomas’s death:contentReference[oaicite:68]{index=68}. In August 2019, a jury acquitted Brewer of the criminal charge, and by 2020 he won a civil service appeal to be reinstated to the sheriff’s office:contentReference[oaicite:69]{index=69}:contentReference[oaicite:70]{index=70}.
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