Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerThe Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 64 media organizations have sent a letter to the LA County Sheriff’s Department today condemning the arrest of KPCC/LAist reporter Josie Huang.Huang was arrested and charged with obstruction of justice on Sept.
12 after the Saturday night shooting of two L.A. County Sheriffs. A crowd of agitators gathered outside St. Francis Medical Center, where the shooting victims were taken.
The crowd blocked the emergency entrance and exit and chanted, “We hope they die,” the sheriff’s department said in a tweet.
Huang states she was merely trying to cover the volatile scene when she was arrested. The letter called for obstruction charge against her to be dropped and.
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