Two Chicago Police Officers Pepper Sprayed While Trying To Break Up Fight In Calumet Heights

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Two Chicago police officers found themselves on the wrong end of a pepper spray can in Calumet Heights Friday night.

Police say they were trying to break up an argument between two groups of people near 90th and Ridgeland around 9 p.m. when someone pulled out the pepper spray and tried using it on the other group.

The officers were caught in the middle.

One officer was hospitalized as a precaution, and the other refused medical treatment.

No one else was hurt.

No one was arrested.

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