A female protester has been charged with four counts of attempted murder after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a police cruiser during protests over the death of George Floyd.
Samantha Shader, 27, is accused to chucking the firebomb at an NYPD vehicle in Brooklyn which had four cops inside at around 10.30pm.
Luckily the bottle failed to explode and the officers managed to flee the vehicle uninjured.
According to reports Shader is claimed to have bit one of the officers on the leg when she was being arrested.
Shader's 21-year-old sister Darian was also arrested when she attempted to intervene as her sibling was being detained.
She has been charged with resisting arrest and obstruction of governmental administration.
Both sisters, who live in Catskill, New York, are claimed to have a history of clashes with police at protests.
They were among thousands of people who took to the streets of New York City as protests sweep across the US following death of Mr Floyd.
A second police car was torched in a separate incident, and a number of other cruisers were also damaged.
NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said "countless" officers were injured during the protests were around 200 people were injured.
He said: "It is by the grace of God that we don’t have dead officers today.
"Coming to an assembly, pre-meditated, with loaded firearms, with bricks, with Molotov cocktails is the furthest thing from civil obedience."
Mr Floyd, who was 46, died on Monday after he was restrained by policeman David Chauvin in Minneapolis on suspicion of using counterfeit money.
Footage shows Chauvin kneeling on his neck with Mr Floyd repeatedly saying he could not breathe as he was pinned to the ground.
He died shortly afterwards.
Chauvin was arrested and charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter after four days of unrest.
A preliminary autopsy report has revealed that the restraint used during his arrest was a contributing factor in his death.
According to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner Mr Floyd was also suffering with underlying health conditions, including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease.
The report said: "The combined effects of Mr. Floyd being restrained by the police, his underlying health conditions and any potential intoxicants in his system likely contributed to his death."
But it added that there were "no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation" after Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Mr Floyd's neck for more than eight minutes.