A second  Nine  reporter has been attacked while reporting on protests in London over the death of US man George Floyd.

Europe correspondent Ben Avery was asked to move back from the crowds as they started to escalate, but his cameraman Cade Thompson was grabbed by angered crowds.

“A bit of a clash with us here at the moment,” Avery can be heard saying.

“OK, guys. What’s happened, we’ve been trying to walk away from the danger here. It’s been following us,” he said.

Avery and his camera operator run through an underpass from where they had been standing near the Houses of Parliament, where co-hosts Karl Stefanovic and Allison Langdon took over.

“That just goes to show how dangerous it is for our reporters, for all journalists on the street at the moment trying to cover these riots when emotions are running so high,” Stefanovic explained.

“It’s good to see you have police there now.

“Ben’s dropped his microphone.”

Stefanovic then gave an update as to what happened with the duo who were reporting.

“I spoke to Ben about 10 minutes ago. It was peaceful then, but it was just teetering and one thing that really struck me about what Ben said was the police are outnumbered here.

“They are drastically outnumbered.”

Avery spoke about the incident around a hour later, explaining it was a “bit of a shock”.

“We are were getting a little bit of grief from one or two in particular who took exception to us being there,” Avery told  Today.

“As soon as we started to go on air you see Cade’s camera starts to tilt down because they are pulling his camera down.

“Then we saw someone come off to the side and take my microphone out of my hand and there was a group of dozens of these protesters just chasing after us down the road.”

Avery said that he and Thompson ran towards parliament where there were a large group of police.

“We realised that our security guard was still in amongst all of that crowd. He was taking on about, I think, 15 people at one stage. We didn’t want to run off too far because he was still there.”

The experience made Avery realise how quickly things can turn.

“It can turn quickly and it can turn no matter how many police are around, we came to learn.

“It felt like there was a police officer for every single protester there at that stage but it didn’t make much difference. They were just so angry and they were so after us at that stage that even one of police said to me there is not much they could do.”

The protests have continued to remain aggressive, as Avery explained that “we felt quite unsafe”.

“We had bottles flying around, at one stage one of the bottles hit me in the face as I was running off.

“It was pretty scary really. You can only imagine what it’s like in the US at the moment where they are dealing with this all the time.”