Police say the crowd began throwing snowballs at them and continued to pelt them and their vehicles with snowballs as they left the park. The mayor and NYPD said two officers were treated for minor injuries, including lacerations.

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said in an X post Tuesday night that the incident was being investigated. The NYPD also released images of the people who allegedly threw the snowballs at the officers.

"The NYPD is aware of certain videos taken earlier today in Washington Square Park showing individuals attacking cops. I want to be very clear: The behavior depicted is disgraceful, and it is criminal," Tisch said in her post.

No arrests had been made as of Wednesday afternoon.

Although Mamdani did not describe the incident as an attack, he repeatedly has condemned anyone who would antagonize the police, and praised their work during the snowstorms over the last two months.

"I want to say that officers have been on the front line of helping our city respond to this blizzard. They have been keeping New Yorkers safe, and they have also been at the heart of our efforts of digging New Yorkers’ cars out of these kinds of conditions and ensuring that our ambulances, our MTA buses can keep functioning across this city" he told reporters during the Tuesday news conference.

The mayor's remarks, however, did not sit well with the leaders of the Police Benevolent Association. The union's president, Patrick Hendry, released a statement Tuesday calling the mayor's response "a complete failure of leadership."

"This was disgraceful. It wasn't a joke. It wasn't a game. It was a vicious attack," he said.

Mamdani told reporters Wednesday that he and Tisch are in constant communication but declined to talk more about the investigation into the incident.

>The Republican controlled media is trying to again attack Mamdani because they've failed to sabotage him otherwise.
*yawn*

>>1491958
Not the OP, but this is kind of a big deal. Mamdani aside, this sends the message that people can assault officers with impunity.

>>1491959
It was a fucking snowball. Unless the snowballs had rocks in them it is literally harmless.

>>1491959
Should every snowball fight be prosecuted?

https://youtu.be/enL4BBlqlJQ
here's a video so you can decide for yourself
inb4
>New York Post
there's no commentary

>>1491959
>>1491965
>More proof it's just republicans crying bitch tears over a nothing burger.
THIS will be what brings Mandani down and get the masses to ignore trump and the epstein class

>>1491965
oh my god. That seems like... a minor annoyance! They might have even caught a cold!

>>1491962
Go throw some snowballs at Gracie mansion and see for yourself.

>>1491959
It’s the same message NYC mayor sent last time Trump was president. The animals in Brooklyn started throwing water balloons at the police because the mayor says fuck the police.

>>1491956
>This was disgraceful. It wasn't a joke. It wasn't a game. It was a vicious attack,
if it's so serious, he could use his own words instead of asking chatgpt to tell him what to say about it

>>1491960
>It was a fucking snowball.
https://abc7ny.com/post/nypd-officers-hit-snowballs-injured-responding-washington-square-park-manhattan/18641766/
>Multiple officers were taken to the hospital with lacerations to their face.
>It was a fucking snowball.
>lacerations to their face.
>snowball
>lacerations
Retard.

>>1492030
I'm sure this is the same as that one ICE thug who murdered an innocent American claiming they had 'internal injuries' from standing next to car.
The Conservative media like ABC just can't help but lie

>>1492030
"Lacerations" can mean a fucking papercut. Same way "Internal bleeding" can mean a bruise. No one we see in that video is anything other than cold and uncomfortable, and I'm gonna take a guess the reason why they haven't released and photos of these "horrific injuries" is because it ultimately amounts to a small cut that's probably more from their own masks or jacket than the actual snowball.

>>1492031
>all police are ICE
lol they're not even trying to hide it now.

>>1492034
>Strawman
Typical conservative logic.

The extent of the conservative biased media is even bigger than we thought given they now have their tendrils in political and the AP.
>Criticism from the mayor’s political adversaries was bolstered by minor media hysteria over the blizzard brawl, with one pearl-clutching headline from the New York Post reading, “Mamdani refuses to call mob launching snowballs at cops a ‘criminal’ act, says it just ’looks like a snowball fight.”

>Another Politico story had a loaded headline that asked, “Is Zohran responsible for this snowball fight?” while the Associated Press declared, “Mamdani’s relationship with NYPD gets icy after officers were pelted in a snowball fight.”

>>1492037
conservatives sure are angry that the NYPD isn't aggressively executing citizens for some reason

>>1491960
Doesn't matter if its a snowball or not. Unwanted physical contact is illegal.

>>1492070
You gonna call the cops on kids throwing snowballs at you? This seems like the most appropriate context for calling someone a fucking snowflake.

>>1492077
If I hit those 'urban youths' with snowballs they would beat me to death.

>>1492081
is snowballs the new pol slang for racial slurs?

>>1492095
No, but an accidental good point: these kids are being treated favorably because of their race.

>>1492096
being the new distraction from the pedophile in chief is "being treated favorably"?

>>1492097
Worrying about pedophiles in the White House is like worrying that the sun is going to come up. I care more about localized issues, like leniency on crime and communities becoming unsafer due to democrat policies.

>>1492081
but thats because you deserve to be beaten to death for being a shitty ESL shill, not because you threw snowballs or whatever

>Donald Trump is covering for pedos because Pam Bondi isn't prosecuting pedos in the files
>Joe Biden wasn't covering for pedos when Merrick Garland wasn't prosecuting pedos in the files because we didn't care about Epstein 4 years ago, We only started paying attention to the files when Trump got inaugurated last January.

>>1492099
Is this the new leftoid tactic now? Give randos a bad smell and then send minorities after them?
Wait hold on this makes too much sense.

This is why shills need to be beaten to death

Donald Trump is covering for pedos because they campaigned on prosecuting them all and instead covered up the files and said no one would be prosecuted

Joe Biden wasn't covering for pedos because he didn't do any of that

>>1492100
That’s strange how all of the sudden the media started caring about the Epstein Files.

>>1492103
So all those documents we are seeing. Were those released while Donald Trump was President or when Joe Biden was President?
Because it seems to me like if Donald Trump's plan is to cover up the files, he did a very bad job, because there are tens of thousands of documents the public never got to see until now.
It seems like Donald Trump has been releasing Epstein Files since month 1 of his administration
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-pamela-bondi-releases-first-phase-declassified-epstein-files

>>1492105
trump literally tried to say they didn't exist. kind of like nixon said he never covered up watergate

>>1492106
I never got Watergate. There is no evidence that Nixon ever ordered for those people to break into that hotel room.

>>1492100
Republicans in congress could have brought this up in 2023 around the time when they were voting to hold Garland in contempt. Why didn't they?

>>1492107
he just admitted to being able to get a million dollars out of thin air to pay out the burglars for no reason, right

>>1492108
too busy fucking kids
the ones that aren't pedophiles were covering for pedophiles and driving their staffers to suicide

>>1492108
Yeah. And so could Democrats if they really cared.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_8jHpldg94
Nobody asked Merrick Garland to answer questions about Epstein
>>1492103
Nobody seemed to ask Joe Biden to answer questions about Epstein either. It was really easy for Biden not to make any promises about Epstein because nobody ever asked him about the files

>>1491960
When I was a kid, this bully kept hitting me in the back of the head with snowballs when I would arrive at school. So I grabbed the snowball and kept squeezing it and put it in my coat and squeeze it again until it was 8 oz of pure ice. I want that bully turned around and found me waiting there I threw it right in his face and I knocked his eye out, I was only 10 years old at the time, and since it was an accident and only a "snowball", I got off with a 3-day suspension.

>>1492114
This post is like Trumps diaper.
Suddenly filled with bullshit, stinking up the thread, and shills pretend they love the stench

>>1492114
we're not talking about joe biden, shill

>>1492121
>Donald Trump is covering for pedos because Pam Bondi isn't prosecuting pedos in the files
>Joe Biden didn't cover for pedos even though his attorney general Merrick Garland didn't prosecute pedos in the files

>>1492121
But have you considered that talking about Joe Biden helps distract from Trump and his cabinet and friends fucking children?
You should, the shitposts will continue until you assimilate their programing

>>1492122
does someone need to unplug you again?

>>1492125
The evidence that Donald Trump is a pedophile is he isn't going after pedos in the files
This evidence doesn't prove Joe Biden is a pedophile because he didn't go after pedos in the files. Stop applying outside information to our standard, that's whataboutism. Trump exists in a vacuum, and if you try to compare Trump's behavior to other presidents you are a bot.

>>1492127
This post is like Trumps diaper.
Suddenly filled with bullshit, stinking up the thread, and shills pretend they love the stench

>>1492129
You're full of shit

>>1492105
>the fake release
That's a count against this administration, not for it.
https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-files-pam-bondi-trump-1a6af3e9fa1cfb6d267985a971a4929a

>>1492593
>The small batch of documents included copies of flight logs from Epstein’s private plane, which have long been available in multiple court cases, and a heavily redacted photocopy of an address book purportedly compiled by Epstein and his longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell, which has been cited in media accounts for many years.

>The Justice Department also released a blacked-out list of masseuses and an evidence list showing entries for more than 150 items, including nude images, massage tables, sex toys and other items. There wasn’t any indication whether the list was from Epstein’s case, Maxwell’s case or some other investigation.
How is it fake?
You are just saying it is small and people saw it already. Well since the first month of Trump's administration another 3 million Epstein documents have been released, and let me guess, it doesn't count?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2y40lj5go
Even though he signed into law the Epstein Files Transparency Act and caused the release of those 3 million documents

>>1492594
He never needed Congress's permission. He signed a bill to make him do something he could already do. And he's still not complying with all of it.

>>1492594
Saying it's new files is a fucking lie. They didn't "release" shit in that batch.

>>1492595
Well I appreciate he went through the process of getting congress to pass a bill and turn it into a law before acting. People often claim that he is rash, and don't appreciate when he takes the time to go through the process

>>1492597
>Guys he was just really, really, really making sure it was what people wanted
>Totally not because there was a veto-proof majority and he'd literally look as guilty as fucking possible if he even tried in vain to stop it

>>1492601
This is just mind-reading. You know people can mind-read the same bad intentions into Joe Biden and Merrick Garland, saying Trump is draining the swamp by releasing the files like Biden never could

>>1492601
Have you ever considered the possibility that Trump didn't actually know what the Epstein files were

>>1492601
And he's still trying to stop them via his pet DoJ.
And lo and behold, he looks guilty as fucking possible.

>>1491958
He's doing a good enough job of that on his own.

>>1491960
lemme pelt you in the eye with a snowball and we'll see how harmless it is.
>>1492033
oh look at the domestic terrorist downplaying assaulting people
>>1492031
ahh yes the "innocent" american who stalked law enforcement and tried to assault them while armed.
god leftists are insufferable ignoramus.
>>1492036
muh muh milkshake ducky
muh muh whataboutism
muh muh its all propaganda
typical leftist argument skills. maybe you should just get iced

>>1492097
meanwhile democrats have swept all epstein related things like wayfair as "qanon conspiracies"
you're fucking complicit you piece of shit.
oh no its just a coincidence they sell fucking chairs and beds for 20k named after missing kids. fuck you you human trafficking piece of shit.
democrats literally are covering up for their own you fucking loser. you gullible human trafficking enabling filth I hope its you next.