 Lynn Bowie, WTOP News. A Baltimore police officer is recovering from an eye injury, which happened while he was trying to get rid of some illegal fireworks he found last night. Police tell the Baltimore Sun when officers found the pile of illegal fireworks in southwest Baltimore, several men started attacking the officers. Then police say some of the men set off the fireworks, and that's how the officer's eye was injured. He was taken to a hospital, and three men are now charged with assault.