Police are treating the attack at Castle Park in Bristol as a hate crime.
Police say the targeting of a trans event is being treated as a hate crime.
People attending the family trans pride event in Castle Park in Bristol on Sunday afternoon were shot at with yellow gel pellets, organisers said.Ch Insp Stephanie McKenna, from Avon and Somerset Police, said: "We take hate crime very seriously and will not tolerate it."Image source,Ms Self, who is the vice-chair of Trans Pride South West, said the group was sat on the grass near the bandstand when a couple of people stood on the bank started shooting small yellow pellets.
"I was hit about four times, but it wasn't just directed at me, there were lots of pellets into the crowd, about 50." Ms Self said the two people started coming towards the crowd and she became "very concerned" but they were then chased away. This Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser.
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