Seven teenagers were arrested for allegedly attacking and hospitalizing two Boston police officers on Monday.

BostonHerald.com reports the incident occurred Monday morning around 11 a.m. when a male and female officer were trying to arrest 19-year-old Woobenson Morisset on outstanding warrants in Roxbury, said authorities. During the arrest, the cops claimed Morisset called out for help from his relatives. That's when six other teens, between the ages of 13 to 18, allegedly began beating up on the cops.

"Numerous occupants (mostly the suspect's family members) exited from Apt. #4 and Apt. #3, entered the stairwell and began assaulting the officers in an effort to free the suspect and prevent him from being arrested," reads a police report of the inciden. "During the altercation, officers were kicked, punched and choked by numerous suspects."

Instead of using lethal force, the cops said they used pepper spray against the teens as they waited for backup.

After the confrontation, "the teens were arrested and charged with assault and battery on a police officer, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and resisting arrest," reports CBS Boston. Bail was set at $1 for the younger teens.

Meanwhile, the officers were briefly treated and released for "non-life threatening injuries," including exposure to the pepper spray that they discharged, said officials.

During a news conference on Tuesday, Police Commissioner William Evans called the attack "troubling" and described the unidentified officers as "pretty banged up," reports CBS Boston.

All of the suspects were arraigned on Tuesday.

However, before making a court appearance to face the charges, 18-year-old Lorcen Morisset denied the accusations, telling reporters, "There was like five or six police" and "I wasn't doing anything." Morriset insisted that neither he nor his relatives made physical contact with the police officers and that the four girls hid inside their apartments to avoid the struggle taking place outside.

"That's a lie. They didn't touch the officers,'' he said, referring to the teenage girls, reports The Boston Globe. "They went to hide in the bathroom."

According to him, the incident began after police began to beat his brother. He added that two of his family members recorded video of the incident on their cell phones, which were then seized by police.

"I took a video 'cause they was beating him up, two officers,'' he alleged. "There is blood at the back of the house, everything."

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