Thus far, the anti-mask law doesn’t seem to be doing a terribly good job of quieting things down in Hong Kong.

As chaos broke out across the city on Friday evening ahead of the ban on facemasks going into effect at midnight, a 14-year-old was reportedly shot in the thigh by an off-duty police officer.

According to an Apple Daily account of the incident, the whole thing began when a man, dressed in a white shirt and identified as an off-duty officer, drove a private car through an area in Yuen Long where protesters were gathering and allegedly bumped into one pedestrian.

The officer then left his car and argued with protesters who surrounded him. That argument somehow led to the officer taking out his pistol and shooting a 14-year-old protester in the leg.

After firing the shot, the officer was then beaten to the ground by protesters who threw a petrol bomb at him before running away. As the officer ran away, he dropped his pistol on the street and had to scramble to pick it back up.

This vid on Telegram shows that the white shirt man, who allegedly is an off duty police officer, was besieged, beaten and caught by petrol bombs in Yuen Long tonight. His pistol was dropped and almost taken away by protesters. pic.twitter.com/53Zi39KOwS — Xinqi Su (@XinqiSu) October 4, 2019

Afterward, another petrol bomb was thrown at the officer as he was on the phone calling for help, forcing him to flee to police lines.

Meanwhile, the 14-year-old boy was taken by ambulance to the hospital where he is reported to be in stable condition.

A 14yo kid was shot on his left upper limb with a real bullet tonight. pic.twitter.com/4YRFhFoPlM — Demosistō 香港眾志 (@demosisto) October 4, 2019

This comes only a few days after chaotic demonstrations on China’s National Day when a protester was shot by police for the first time in more than four months of protests in Hong Kong. That 18-year-old protester is also in stable condition, though he faces charges of rioting and assaulting an officer.

[Images via Apple Daily]