CLARENDON, Jamaica— Police are reviewing CCTV cameras in an effort to capture who threw a stone that injured a municipal policeman in May Pen, Clarendon, on Monday.

The injured man, said to be the leader of a team that was patrolling the street for illegal vending, was admitted to hospital last night but was expected to be released today.

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“We are trying to review some camera footage to see if we can locate who threw the stone,” Superintendent Carlos Russell, head of the Clarendon police, told OBSERVER ONLINE.

Several videos of the incident have gone viral on social media. The video shows people, most of whom are believed to be vendors, crowding several municipal officers when a stone hits one of the lawmen on the head.

He immediately fell to the ground, and people began scattering as his colleagues attended to him. The crowd that had surrounded the officers dispersed in a few seconds.

Mayor of May Pen, Councillor Winston Maragh, disclosed that the injured man was not a part of an altercation between other officers and vendors. He said he was trying to make peace.

“He came out of the vehicle to kind of pacify the altercation so he was parting them only for someone outside of the crowd to fling this stone into his head,” Maragh said.