Villanueva during a radio interview taunted LeBron James, the Los Angeles Lakers basketball superstar who, like many professional athletes both black and white, has supported demonstrations against police violence. Price, who denies any affiliation with Black Lives Matter, Antifa, or any of the other whipping boys of the right wing, claimed his group wanted to focus attention on the presence of violent deputy gangs in the LASD, including “The Executioners” at the Compton station.ĭespite a plethora of video cameras, the LASD has produced no video evidence to back up their claims that Price and his three companions ever tried to block a hospital entrance or force their way into the emergency room. Kevin Wharton Price, a local activist, acknowledged that he and three other members of his “Africa Town Coalition,” carrying Pan-Africa flags, were responsible for the obnoxious but tiny and non-violent demonstration outside the hospital. “That’s on her.”Īt the same time the LASD was caught in more lies about the events leading up to Huang’s arrest.
“All I can say is, in the heat of the moment when these protesters are calling or chanting for the death of the deputies in the emergency room, she picked the worst time possible to try to get an up-close of the deputies making an arrest,” Villanueva said. Villanueva told the Associated Press last Monday that Huang “crossed the line from journalism to activism.” Video of the arrest by a television news crew immediately exposed an LASD tweet that Huang obstructed deputies, failed to identify herself as a reporter and did not have press credentials to be demonstrably false.ĭespite his department having been exposed as brazen liars, Villanueva continued attacking Huang. Immediately after Villanueva’s press conference, deputies attacked Josie Huang, a reporter for the local National Public Radio station KPCC who was covering the events at the hospital. The demonstrations began with the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, but have been boosted locally by the LASD killings of Andres Guardado, an 18-year-old security guard, and Dijon Kizzee, who was shot 19 times after being detained for riding his bicycle on the wrong side of the street. Speaking to the press in the hospital parking lot three hours after the shooting on September 12, Sheriff Alex Villanueva had described both deputies as “clinging to life” before his provocative, evidence-free statements that blamed the shooting on recent demonstrations protesting police violence. The other, a 31-year-old female, remains hospitalized, but her wounds are not life threatening. One, a 24-year-old male, was released from the hospital Wednesday. There are anecdotal reports from Compton and nearby communities of deputies using warrants and the presence of probationers to ransack homes scouring for leads and terrorizing residents, but so far without results. According to press reports, over a dozen LASD homicide detectives are assigned to the investigation. The reward, which was initially $100,000, has grown to over $675,000. There is no evidence of any motive for the attack. No arrest has been announced more than a week after a surveillance video captured a gunman shooting two Los Angeles Sheriff Department (LAPD) transit deputies sitting in their SUV outside the Compton Metro light rail station.
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