L.A. County will pay $700,000 to a public radio journalist who was slammed to the ground and arrested by deputies while covering a 2020 protest.
Los Angeles County will pay $700,000 to a public radio journalist who was slammed to the ground and arrested by sheriff’s deputies while covering a 2020 protest outside a hospital in Lynwood. During Tuesday’s meeting, the Board of Supervisors voted to approve the payment to LAist reporter Josie Huang in anticipation of a potential lawsuit, even though she had not yet formally filed her case in court.
” Other deputies joined in, and video showed them pushing her into a nearby car then pinning her to the ground as she screamed. The Sheriff’s Department initially alleged that Huang failed to identify herself as a reporter and did not have press credentials on her. But Huang’s phone kept recording while she was in handcuffs, showing deputies stomp on the device and ignore her as she repeatedly shouted she was a reporter and told them they were hurting her.
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