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