Rochester police fired pepper balls at Black Lives Matter demonstrators who refused to leave Court Street in downtown Rochester overnight. Police declared the protest against the death of Daniel Prude an "unlawful assembly."
Eleven people were arrested...with four of them sent to jail and seven released on appearance tickets. Police say bottles, rocks and commercial fireworks were thrown at them. Three officers were injured, one being burned on the neck and the others with cuts and bruises to their hands and legs. This followed an earlier, peaceful gathering at Martin Luther King Park downtown. Estimates are more than a thousand people then took part in a march through the city.
But some protesters overturned tables at an East End Restaurant on Alexander Street. At about midnight, police say members of the crowd turned ugly at Court Street and South Clinton Avenue, throwing rocks and bottles and setting small fires, including in a bus shelter. Some then began throwing fireworks at the officers, who say they responded with tear gas shortly after midnight to break up the crowd.