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The Los Angeles Police Department on its Twitter feed urged
citizens to avoid the area around Broadway and 65th Street in
the Florence neighborhood in south Los Angeles, which footage
posted online showed to be an active crime scene, swarming with
police vehicles and heavily armed SWAT teams.
A police spokeswoman told the Los Angeles Times the plainclothes
officers, who received minor injuries and were treated at the
scene, believed they were specifically targeted. The officers'
identities were not provided.
The department could not be immediately reached to confirm
details of the incident.
The spokeswoman told the Times the officers were shot at just
before 6 p.m. and returned gunfire, sending several suspects
fleeing. Two people were detained and others remained at large,
the Times said.
(Reporting by Chris Michaud; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
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