A police officer in Rochester, New York, has been injured while attempting to disperse rioters.
Blaze reporter Elijah Schaffer reports that while it is unclear how the officer was injured, rioters had been throwing projectiles.
NEW YORK: officer has been injured in Rochester during an attempt to clear protesters after an unlawful assembly was declared
The officer is laying on the ground. It’s unclear how he was injured
Projectiles were being thrown at officers and still are. Someone threw a helmet pic.twitter.com/JciWbNp3Fe
— ELIJAH RIOT (@ElijahSchaffer) September 13, 2020
Schaffer tweeted a video of the scene and wrote that an “officer has been injured in Rochester during an attempt to clear protesters after an unlawful assembly was declared. The officer is laying on the ground. It’s unclear how he was injured.” He added that, “projectiles were being thrown at officers and still are. Someone threw a helmet.”
“We on the freedom side!” pic.twitter.com/LoNtwFPoKW
— A Friendly Dad (@AFriendlyDad) September 13, 2020