Salt Lake City’s police chief and public officials elsewhere have suggested that the activists turning peaceful protests into destructive demonstrations have been “outsiders” taking advantage of the rallies.

Only two of those arrested in Saturday’s protests at Washington Square, which surrounds City Hall, and the Utah Capitol are from out of state, according to the city’s police department and a review of public records.

Salt Lake City police said 46 protesters were arrested.

Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown suggested Sunday that at least some of the more confrontational demonstrators came from outside Utah.

He was booked into the Salt Lake County jail on suspicion of criminal mischief, rioting and threatening violence against police.

One of those arrested for failing to disperse, a 19-year-old Salt Lake City woman, said she was only trying to be a human barrier between police and people of color who were protesting.

Two people were arrested and accused of throwing rocks through the window of the Matheson Courthouse across the street from City Hall.

Widely shared video also showed a Salt Lake City police officer pushing down a senior citizen walking with a cane, a response that Brown called “inappropriate” and Mayor Erin Mendenhall said seemed to stretch “well outside of protocol.””

Salt Lake City police also have asked the public to step forward with any video or witness accounts of Saturday’s destructive or violent clashes

Horrocks said a few complaints had been filed — he did not know the exact number — mostly over the episode with the officer and the senior citizen