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Video: Fox 2's Charlie LeDuff Fights Off Attack in Ferguson

August 19, 2014, 7:16 AM

Fox 2's Charlie LeDuff got himself into a dangerous situation the other night while reporting from Ferguson, Mo., following the fatal shooting of teen Michael Brown.

A video shows LeDuff sitting outside a store with an African American man who is trying to prevent angry area residents from looting a store.

"We ain't lootin' in there," the man tells the crowd. The crowd starts getting angry, accusing the man of defending the white man. The man says he's for everyone and tells them the looting only cheapens the cause.

The rioters finally enter the store and then people start throwing objects at LeDuff and the man. 

Then one guy comes after LeDuff with a large orange and white traffic cone, starts swinging it and hits him.

LeDuff doesn't back off and eventually the guy drops the cone and backs off. Another man tells LeDuff to leave.

-- Allan Lengel

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