A Victoria police officer was stabbed with a needle while trying to control a crowd that had gathered Saturday night at the scene of a drug overdose on the 900 block of Mason Street.
Officers had been directed to a person in distress, who was unconscious, wasn’t breathing and didn’t have a pulse. They administered Naloxone nasal spray to counteract the drug overdose and administered chest compressions.
A crowd gathered and tried to intervene, Victoria police said in a news release.
Additional officers arrived and moved the crowd back. At that point, a man in the crowd stabbed an officer under an arm using a needle.
Officers disarmed the attacker and took him into custody.
The officer who was attacked received medical treatment in hospital for what was deemed a non-life-threatening injury.
A man is facing recommended charges of obstruction and assaulting a police officer with a weapon.
The person who suffered the overdose regained consciousness with help from police officers, but declined further medical treatment when paramedics arrived.
