WATCH: NBC News Reporter Hit With Fireworks While Covering Unrest

A journalist is reportedly uninjured after being hit by a projectile believed to be either a firework or a tear gas canister during a George Floyd protest in Capitol Hill.

MSNBC says NBC News correspondent Jo Ling Kent was reporting live from the scene of a police standoff with protesters on Capitol Hill last night when she was hit and quickly ran off-screen.

Footage from her camera crew shows protesters running from police and screaming.

MSNBC posted the footage on Twitter and called the projectile a firework, but several others on Twitter note that the projectile came from the direction of police and appeared to be a tear gas canister or a flash bang device.

Kent later tweeted that the projectile just singed her jacket sleeve and that she was OK.

(Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)


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