Josie Huang, a reporter for NPR member station LAist 89.3, reached a $700,000 settlement agreement with Los Angeles County and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department after she was arrested while covering a protest in 2020.
The Board of Supervisors approved the settlement following negotiations with attorneys from Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, who represented Huang.
As she was covering a demonstration on Sept. 12, 2020, Huang was using her phone to record the arrest of one protester when she was tackled to the ground by sheriff’s deputies.
She was arrested and jailed overnight on charges of obstructing a police officer. Two deputies tried to step on the phone, but she later recovered it and the video of the incident.
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