Kendrick Sampson later told fans he had to get stitches
The violence had also been captured in real-time on Instagram Live.
"Then in this video, look closely, you can see them shoot him by ricocheting a rubber bullet off the ground then you can see me, process that s---, step in front of him and you can see several of them hit me multiple times with batons, then an officer aims straight at me, no ricochet, and shoots. And hits. That was one of 7 shots I took," the actor explained. "They are excruciating. And they CAN kill.
"Then you can see WOMEN, non-Black true ACCOMPLICES in the struggle- not allies - step in front to try to protect and deescalate. ✊🏽Unfortunately, they beat them with batons too," he wrote. "Glad I y’all witnessed this. Esp the video of them actually targeting us. He didn’t try to ricochet the bullets of the ground - one tactic - he pointed the gun DIRECTLY AT ME. I actually got hit 7 times with rubber bullets and many with batons," heThe actor was one of a number of celebrities who hit the streets this weekend to demonstrate against
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