LAist Reporter Josie Huang Arrested While Covering Protest

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Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies arrested KPCC/LAist Correspondent Josie Huang Saturday night while she was covering the ambush shooting of two deputies in Compton.

The incident occurred outside St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, where the two deputies were being treated for gunshot wounds. Huang had just finished covering a 10 p.m. news conference by Sheriff Alex Villanueva.

Huang, an award-winning journalist, allegedly obstructed justice. The department initially refused to provide details of what happened, but later, Deputy Juanita Navarro of the Sheriff's Information Bureau confirmed that deputies took Huang into custody on suspicion of obstruction of justice by "interfering with a lawful arrest." Huang says she was trying to document the arrest of a protester.

Navarro also said Huang "didn't have proper credentials," but she was clearly wearing press credentials around her neck.

Video shows at least five deputies pinning Huang to the pavement, handcuffing her, and placing her in a patrol car.


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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. All I can say and I will keep saying it is

All I can say and I will keep saying it is

Shit is going to go sideways like you can’t imagine in October

[Eko]

6. Yup.

Trump will do what everyone thinks he wont do, its what he has been doing the whole time.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. Cops didn't like the press watching them before, less now.

The way to take care of that, is to make up some bee ess allegations, arrest them and then have the DA drop the charges.

Intimidation complete.

[triron]

8. pigs

[DFW]

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[blm]

4. She was covering something they didn't want seen. Was the 'protestor' arrested really a

paid provocateur by the Trump campaign or the anti-BLM crowd?

They sure went heavy on stopping her.

[bluestarone]

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[EndlessWire]

7. A throwaway charge

for having eyes that see. Shame on them!

I'm sorry the cops got shot, but, c'mon...

[triron]

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