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Monday 14 SepteMber 2020

2 California deputies shot in apparent ambush in patrol car

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER lic radio station KPCC, a
Associated Press National Public Radio af-
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Au- filiate, said on Twitter that
thorities searched Sunday she had been covering the
for a gunman who shot sheriff's news conference
and critically wounded two when she returned to the
Los Angeles County sheriff's hospital after hearing pro-
deputies who were sitting testers shouting. She was
in their squad car — an ap- wearing her press pass, she
parent ambush that drew a said.
reward for information and One of several videos
an angry response from the Huang said she shot mo-
president. ments before her arrest
The 31-year-old female showed two men carrying
deputy and 24-year-old red, black and green flags
male deputy underwent and yelling at deputies
surgery Saturday evening, outside the hospital while
Sheriff Alex Villanueva said a few other people stood
in a late-night news confer- by recording on their cell-
ence. Both graduated from phones.
the academy 14 months Huang tweeted that she
ago, he said. began walking behind
They were each in critical Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies guard the entrance to St. Francis Medical Center early Mon- deputies who were follow-
condition Sunday after- day, Sept. 13, 2020, after two deputies were shot late Saturday, Sept. 12 while sitting inside their ing the small group of pro-
noon, said Deputy Trina patrol vehicle guarding a Metro station in Compton, Calif. testers.
Schrader. Associated Press "I was filming an arrest
The deputies were shot when suddenly deputies
while sitting in their patrol shooter running away in date Joe Biden tweeted. the HOSPITAL EMERGENCY shout 'back up.' Within sec-
car at a Metro rail station the direction he came. He "Violence of any kind is ROOM yelling "We hope onds, I was getting shoved
and were able to radio for turns a corner out of the wrong; those who commit they die" referring to 2 LA around. There was nowhere
help, the sheriff said. Villan- frame, past a second figure it should be caught and Sheriff's ambushed today in to back up," Huang said
ueva, whose department lingering on the sidewalk, punished." #Compton: DO NOT BLOCK on Twitter. On another vid-
has been criticized during according to the Times. It's A handful of protesters EMERGENCY ENTRIES & EX- eo, Huang can be heard
recent protests over racial unclear if the second per- gathered outside the the ITS TO THE HOSPITAL," the shouting "I'm a reporter...
unrest, expressed frustra- son was involved in the at- hospital where the injured sheriff's department tweet- I'm with KPCC" as she falls
tion over anti-police senti- tack. A Sheriff's Department deputies were being treat- ed. "People's lives are at to the ground.
ment as he urged people spokeswoman declined to ed. The protesters tried stake when ambulances The executive editor of the
to pray for the deputies. comment, citing the ongo- to provoke deputies sta- can't get through." station, Megan Garvey, ex-
"It pisses me off. It dismays ing investigation. tioned outside and at one A radio reporter who was pressed outrage over the
me at the same time," he Moments after the shoot- point were prevented from near the protest scene was arrest and said her reporter
said. ing, the passenger door entering the emergency taken into custody. The appeared to be wearing
The department tweeted opens and a deputy stum- room, Bishop Juan Carlos sheriff's department later her credentials and had
video of the shooting that bles out, hand on head, Mendez with the Churches tweeted that the reporter shouted her KPCC affilia-
shows a person approach according to the newspa- in Action group told the TV interfered with the arrest of tion. NPR's Editorial Director
the parked patrol car on per. The driver's-side door station KABC. a male protester. Nancy Barnes said the net-
foot and shoot through the opens soon after. "Unacceptable behavior. "The female adult, who was work was "appalled" by the
passenger-side window. The video sparked reaction The hospital should be a later identified as a mem- arrest of a reporter doing
"The gunman walked up on from President Trump who sanctuary, we should leave ber of the press, did not her job.
the deputies and opened responded on Twitter, "Ani- hospitals alone," he said. identify herself as press and The office of the Los Ange-
fire without warning or mals that must be hit hard!" Mendez and members of later admitted she did not les County Inspector Gen-
provocation," the depart- "This cold-blooded shoot- his group gathered nearby have proper press creden- eral, which oversees inves-
ment stated. ing is unconscionable and in prayer for the wounded tials on her person," the de- tigations and actions of the
An extended version of the the perpetrator must be deputies. partment stated. Sheriff's Department, has
video reviewed by the Los brought to justice," Demo- "To the protesters block- After being released, Josie opened an investigation
Angeles Times shows the cratic presidential candi- ing the entrance & exit of Huang, a reporter for pub- into the reporter's arrest.q

Authorities seek 6 seen near fire at historic S.C. structure

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities are looking firetrucks worked to extinguish the three-alarm Places, what was known as the Babcock Build-
for six people captured on surveillance video fire, which burned for more than 10 hours and ing, with its famous raised cupola and 12-sided
around the time an early morning fire devastat- caused an estimated millions of dollars in dam- dome, became a notable part of Columbia's
ed an iconic building in South Carolina's capital age. Two firefighters suffered minor injuries downtown skyline after construction began in
city. when they were hit by falling debris. Video of 1857. It closed in 1996 and has been a hallmark
The Columbia Police Department released the the fire showed that dome and cupola slide off of the complex, in various stages of redevelop-
images on Saturday of the people and a red the burning structure, collapsing into the inferno ment for years. Known as the Bull Street District,
pickup truck captured near a fire at the Dr. below. the campus has evolved into a variety of one
James Woods Babcock Building, part of a shut- A cause had not been determined for the fire. of the country's largest downtown mixed-used
tered former mental health asylum that was Police said they are working the case along projects, a more than $100 million effort by the
slated to be converted into a luxury housing with fire officials, state police and the federal Hughes Development Corporation in Green-
development. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Ex- ville, including a minor league baseball stadium
Officials say more than 50 firefighters and 14 plosives. On the National Register of Historic and office building. q