'They're quite violent and they do not care who they're targeting at the moment,' 7NEWS correspondent Amelia Brace said during the broadcast
A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police Department told PEOPLE that the officers in the video were not part of their department.
Protests over racial injustice began last week in Minneapolis when footage of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white police officer pinned him to the ground with a knee on his neck, surfaced online. Since then, demonstrations calling for an end to police brutality have erupted across the nation.
During a White House Rose Garden address on Monday evening, Trump, 73, threatened to mobilize the military amid the nationwide protests.for breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases. "I am your president of law and order and an ally to peaceful protesters," he said. "Our country always wins."
"If a city or state refuses to take the actions necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them," Trump said, vowing to dispatch "thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel and law enforcement officers" to bring order.
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