When a clay pot is thrown at Officer Atkins and hits the windshield of his cruiser, it breaks. Pieces of glass hit Atkins and embed in his face. But windshields are made of safety glass and though windshields break, they keep the glass in place. So, the glass in this windshield would NOT have flown at Atkins, let alone embed in his face. He would have come out of this situation shaken but physically unharmed.