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TheAssociatedPress WHITTIER A gang mem- ber paroled from jail only days ago shot and killed a Whittier police officer who was answering a re- port of a traffic accident and wounded his part- ner Monday before being wounded himself, author- ities said. The officers arrived at an intersection in the eastern Los Angeles sub- urb around 8 a.m., but they didn't realize a car that had struck two oth- ers at a stoplight was re- ported stolen, Los Ange- les County sheriff's Lt. John Corina said. One motorist pointed out the location of the car that had rear-ended his vehicle, and the officers approached the driver, Corina said at an after- noon news conference. "When they get him out of the car, they go to pat him down for weapons, they can see he's got tat- toos all over his face and all over his neck," Corina said. The man then pulled a semi-automatic handgun and opened fire at the of- ficers, who were wearing bulletproof vests and shot back, Corina said. One of the officers was pronounced dead at a hos- pital. The other officer and the alleged gunman were hospitalized in sta- ble condition, Corina said. Their names were not immediately released. The 26-year-old suspect is a known gang member who had been paroled about 10 days earlier, Co- rina said. After the shooting, a long line of police cars escorted the slain offi- cer's body from a hospital in Irvine to the coroner's office. Mourners placed candles and flowers out- side police headquarters. The Whittier Police De- partment has about 125 sworn officers who po- lice Whittier and Santa Fe Springs in southeast- ern Los Angeles County. The department has had two other officers killed in the line of duty: a detective in 1979 and a corporal in 1977. Paroledgang member allegedly kills Whittier officer STATE KATIEFALKENBERG—LOSANGELESTIMES Authorities investigate the scene a er a deadly shooting in Whitter Monday. CPAC JEREMY PAPASSO — DAILY CAMERA VIA AP, FILE Milo Yiannopoulos speaks on campus in the Mathematics building at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo. The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Right-wing provocateur Milo Yian- nopoulos has been disin- vited to this year's Conser- vative Political Action Con- ference after his attempt to clarify past comments on relationships between boys and older men fell flat with organizers. The American Conser- vative Union founded and hosts CPAC, which is being held Wednesday through Saturday outside Wash- ington. In a tweet on Mon- day, ACU chairman Matt Schlapp said that "due to the revelation of an offen- sive video in the past 24 hours condoning pedo- philia, the American Con- servative Union has de- cided to rescind the invita- tion of Milo Yiannopoulos to speak." After the polarizing Bre- itbart News editor was in- vited, his invitation sparked a backlash. The conserva- tive Reagan Battalion blog tweeted video clips Sunday in which Yiannopoulos dis- cussed Jews, sexual con- sent, statutory rape, child abuse and homosexuality. On Facebook, Yian- nopoulos blamed deceptive editing and his own "sloppy phrasing" for any indication he supported pedophilia. The British author said he spoke of his own relation- ship when he was 17 with a man who was 29. The age of consent in the U.K. is 16. It's unclear who edited the videos. "We realize that Mr. Yi- annopoulos has responded on Facebook, but it is insuf- ficient," Schlapp said. "We urge him to immediately further address these dis- turbing comments." Schlapp said the invita- tion was initially extended knowing that free speech on college campuses is a "battlefield where we need brave, conservative stan- dard-bearers." But he added: "There is no disagreement among our attendees on the evils of sexual abuse of children." Yiannopoulos writes for Breitbart News, considered by many a platform for the so-called "alt-right" move- ment, an offshoot of con- servatism that mixes rac- ism, white nationalism and populism. Conservative group cancels speech by Yiannopoulos By Julie Walker The Associated Press Thousands of demon- strators turned out Monday across the U.S. to challenge Donald Trump in a Presi- dents Day protest dubbed Not My President's Day. The events on the federal holiday didn't draw nearly as many people as the mil- lion-plus who thronged the streets following the Repub- lican president's inaugura- tion a month earlier, but the message was similar. Thousands of flag-wav- ing protesters lined up out- side Central Park in Man- hattan. Many in the crowd chanted "No ban, no wall. The Trump regime has got to fall." They held aloft signs saying "Uphold the Constitution Now" and "Im- peach the Liar." In Chicago, several hun- dred rallied across the river from the Trump Tower, shouting "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Donald Trump has got to go." Rebecca Wolfram of Chicago, who's in her 60s, said concerns about cli- mate change and immi- grant rights under Trump prompted her to start at- tending rallies. "I'm trying to demon- strate as much as possible until I figure out what else to do," said Wolfram, who held a sign that said "Old white ladies are really dis- pleased." Several hundred demon- strated in Washington, D.C. Dozens gathered around the fountain in Dupont Circle chanting "Dump Trump" and "Love, not hate: That's what makes America great." Dozens marched through midtown Atlanta for a rally named with a Georgia fla- vor: "ImPEACH NOW! (Not My) President's Day March." Hundreds of protest- ers chanting "This is what democracy looks like" marched through Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake Tri- bune reports (http://bit. ly/2kFqWIG) that the crowd marched to push back against Trump and his administration's stance on such issues as the envi- ronment, immigration, free speech and Russia. Some people raised signs that said "Not My Presi- dent," while others held up a large American flag. Protester Reg Brook- ings warned the crowd that Trump is trying to di- vide the country by making such groups as immigrants the enemy. A small but unruly group of protesters faced off with police in downtown Port- land, Oregon. The Oregonian/Oregon- Live reports (http://bit. ly/2lfx6xL) that the police confronted the crowd in front of the Edith Green- Wendell Wyatt Federal Building. Police took some people into custody. Hundreds of Trump op- ponents and supporters turned out in Rapid City, South Dakota. A larger anti-Trump fac- tion stood on a street cor- ner as part of a "Not My President" protest, similar to other demonstrations be- ing held across the country. PROTESTS Thousands of demonstrators say 'Not My President' SETH WENIG — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A rally against Donald Trump stretches a few blocks along Central Park West in New York, Monday. Demonstrators unhappy with President Donald Trump's policies attended a "Not My Presidents Day" rally. By Danica Kirka and David Koenig The Associated Press LONDON Uber's chief exec- utive ordered an investiga- tion Monday into a sexual- harassment claim made by a female engineer who said her prospects at the com- pany evaporated after she complainedaboutadvances from her boss. In a blog post about her year at Uber, Susan Fowler Rigetti said the compa- ny's human resources de- partment ignored her com- plaintsbecauseherbosswas a high performer. CEO Travis Kalanick re- sponded Monday on Twit- ter that he had instructed the ride-hailing app compa- ny's chief human resources officer to look into Rigetti's charges. "What's described here is abhorrent & against ev- erything we believe in," Kalanick tweeted. "Any- one who behaves this way or thinks this is OK will be fired." The engineer, who goes alternately by Fowler or Rigetti online, said she joined Uber in November 2015 as a site-reliability en- gineerinSanFrancisco.She said that on her first official dayonherteamatUber,her boss propositioned her in a string of messages on the company chat. She took screen shots of the messages because they were "clearly out of line." "Uppermanagementtold me that he 'was a high per- former' (i.e. had stellar per- formance reviews from his superiors)andtheywouldn't feel comfortable punishing him for what was probably just an innocent mistake on his part," she wrote. 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