The family of a man who died after a Tarrant County jailer knelt on his back wants the county added back on to a wrongful death lawsuit.
The parents of Anthony Johnson Jr. sued Tarrant County and 15 detention officers after Johnson’s death last year. In February, U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor excused Tarrant County from the lawsuit, ruling the Johnsons failed to prove the county’s policies and procedures led to Anthony’s death.
O’Connor also dropped the case against several of the jailers named in the lawsuit, although it continued against others…