It's A Dangerous Job
No reporter likes being sent to dangerous crime scenes... at the end of their shift... in the rain. Our colleague, Sandy Mazza, took on such a task yesterday when word broke late in the day of the officer-involved shooting in Wilmington. While waiting for the officials to officially say what officially happened, Sandy did what any reporter on such an assignment should do: tried to get some comments from witnesses or family members to add to her story.
While we're all used to negative responses from the members of the public, she got a bit more than she bargained for when one man she approached dropped the F-bomb on her, called her and all the news media "punk-ass bitches," then briefly lifted his shirt to flash the gun snuggled securely in his waistband. Another guy made a slashing motion on his throat to her and the other reporters.
Despite being pretty shaken up, Sandy hung in there to get the official word from the officials.
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Larry Altman has covered crime in the South Bay since 1990. He's seen it all - the missing model who turned up dead in the desert, the wives found dead in trunks, the high-school coaches who get a little too close to their players. He drives his young colleagues nuts with his "I remember when" stories. He welcomes your tips and observations about the present, and you can mix in a little Lakers basketball talk if you like.
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Denise Nix knew as young as grade school, when she spent every summer working on the camp newspaper, that she wanted to be a journalist. Denise has spent most of the last 12 years of her career in the courtroom. She joined the Daily Breeze in 2001, where she tracks and reports on hundreds of cases at every level of the justice system. And she's never, ever, seen a judge use a gavel.
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I am sorry to hear that someone would try scare her. Glad she was brave enough to stick it out.
"While waiting for the officials to officially say what officially happened..."
That there is real professunal rittin'!
And did she tell the cops about this punk who revealed that he was armed-nooooooo.