A detention officer was hospitalized late Saturday after police say he was attacked while walking to his car in downtown Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.<\/p>\n
The incident was reported just after 10 p.m. near the Metropolitan Detention Center. There, the detention officer was attacked by an unknown number of individuals, LAPD claims.<\/p>\n
By the time police officers responded to the scene, the attackers had already fled, police said. A description of those individuals was not available. Law enforcement did not disclose what led up to the incdent.<\/p>\n
As a result, the officer was taken to a nearby hospital. The severity of his injuries was not disclosed.<\/p>\n
Police said when the attack happened, a protest of about 40 to 50 people was taking place outside the detention center. One person was arrested for interfering with police in a charge that was not related to the attack.<\/p>\n
The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A detention officer was hospitalized late Saturday after police say he was attacked while walking to his car…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1647,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-428319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-downtown-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}