The mayor was inside the residence at the time, the police department said later Saturday
The NYPD’s Bomb Squad confirmed that the devices thrown in the direction of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home were both viable IEDs.
The incident is now under investigation by both the NYPD and the FBI. In total, two devices were thrown during the protests on Saturday afternoon on Manhattan’s swanky Upper East Side.
On Sunday, police spokesperson Jessica Tisch said that the “preliminary analysis of a device that was ignited and deployed at a protest yesterday has determined that it is not a hoax device or a smoke bomb.”
“It is, in fact, an improvised explosive device that could have caused serious injury or death,” Tisch added.
I remember when OK City happened, and EVERYBODY immediately started blaming the Muslims, but it didn’t sit right with me. Why Oklahoma? Most Muslims have never heard of Oklahoma. It seemed like a target of opportunity, rather than a target designed to have the most propaganda effect.
And then they caught them a few days later, and sure enough, they were homegrown, right-wing whack-jobs.