L.A. sheriff challenges LeBron James to match reward to help find the gunman who ambushed two deputies
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva
If James matches the reward money being offered, that would bring the total to $350,000.
“This challenge is to LeBron James,” Villanueva said on the radio. “I want you to match that and double that reward. Because I know you care about law enforcement. You expressed a very, very interesting statement about your perspective on race relations and on officer involved shootings and the impact it has on the African American community, and I appreciate that. But likewise, we need to appreciate the respect for life goes across professions, across races, creeds. And I’d like to see LeBron James step up to the plate and double that.”
It is unclear which James’s statement Villanueva referenced to on the radio. James has publicly condemned the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and has spoken out against the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
James and the Los Angeles Lakers did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CNN.
