The NYPD confirms that a suspect used an improvised explosive device at an anti-Muslim protest yesterday near Gracie Mansion, the residence of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
A white supremacist group held the rally near the residence in Manhattan. Mamdani is Muslim.
A larger group of counter-protesters gathered nearby.
Two men who appeared to be affiliated with the counter-protesters hurled an incendiary device near police, and dropped another device in the area.
Police said the devices were jars, with fuses, filled with nuts and bolts, but it was initially unclear whether the devices were functional explosives.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch says in a statement that the NYPD bomb squad has determined that one of the devices was “not a hoax device or a smoke bomb,” but “an improvised explosive device that could have caused serious injury or death.”
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