The bombs hurled during violent protests near Gracie Mansion on Saturday were real, highly volatile explosive devices, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Sunday.
“The NYPD Bomb Squad has conducted a preliminary analysis of a device that was ignited and deployed at a protest yesterday and has determined that it is not a hoax device or a smoke bomb,” Tisch wrote on X.
“It is, in fact, an improvised explosive device that could have caused serious injury or death.”
She said that two pro-Muslim demonstrators, identified as Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, were arrested in the incident, with federal authorities now working with the NYPD.
The devices were hurled into the crowd when a group of counter protesters mobbed a planned anti-Muslim demonstration organized by right-wing agitator Jake Lang.
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