DC Cops Injured by Protester’s Fireworks

Multiple news outlets and journalists on social media report multiple Washington, D.C. police officers were injured during a protest that began outside a district headquarters. Some of the officers were injured when protesters threw an explosive fireworks device into a line of police officers on bicycles.

Initial reports indicate that someone from a crowd of protesters gathered outside the 4th District police headquarters in DC threw fireworks behind a line of police officers.

A video posted on Twitter shows a large fireworks device being thrown at a line of police officers on bicycles outside a McDonalds.