“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,” police said in a statement. “When he bent over, another canister was deployed in the area and that canister skipped and hit the protester in the eye.”
So they were picking up canisters to throw back at the police. How does he know it wasn’t one of his comrades who “deployed” it???