Statement from the Fort Wayne Police Department the eye injury sustained by a protestor last night in the downtown George Floyd demonstrators.
News release from the Forty Wayne Police Department:
At this time this is what I can tell you regarding the eye injury of a male protester. I do not have an official name at this time but we do believe it to be the same person many of you are inquiring about from Saturdays protest.
According to our officers on the ground the protester was still in the area after commands to leave the area were given. Gas was deployed in the area and the protester bent over to pick up the canister to throw it back at officers as many others were trying to do. When he bent over another canister was deployed in the area and that canister skipped and hit the protester in the eye. There was no deliberate deployment of gas to any persons head.
Sofia Rosales-Scatena
Public Information Officer
Fort Wayne Police Department
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