A Burnaby Mountie was injured this weekend after he was chased and then pushed to the ground while trying to make an arrest at a protest against the Trans Mountain pipeline, police say.

The incident began at about 6 p.m. Sunday when officers arrived at the protest site next to the Kinder Morgan facility in the 8000-block of Shellmont St., according to an RCMP press release.

An officer attempted to arrest a man who’d allegedly removed a City of Burnaby