11 NYPD officers injured in rioting last night
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Videos posted to social media showed people clashing with police at a march that began at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Protesters were met by police after they crossed the Brooklyn Bridge.
James asked anyone with photos, videos or eyewitness accounts of interactions with police to contact her office.
Police Commissioner Dermot Shea defended the police response in an interview with the news channel NY1.
"When you march from Brooklyn over a bridge, you try to shut down the traffic on the bridge," he said Tuesday. "You're bringing bottles. You're bringing graffiti. You're spray-painting our city. This is our city. You're spray-painting to burn our city down."
"This isn't actions that are caused by police officers, so that's a news flash for the AG," Shea said. "This is actions caused by people that want to destroy our way of life and our city and we're not going to let it happen,” he said.
At least 29 people were arrested Monday on a range of charges, including disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and blocking a roadway, NY1 reported. Shea told the news station one officer had a bottle thrown at his head, which hit his helmet. He said that 11 officers were hurt but that none of their injuries were believed to be serious.
The police department did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.