"Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the department's bomb squad determined the object wasn't a hoax device or smoke bomb, but an "improvised explosive device that could have caused serious injury or death." The device extinguished itself steps from police officers, Tisch noted."
"The sparsely attended event drew a far larger group of counterdemonstrators, including one person who tossed a smoking object containing nuts, bolts, screws and a "hobby fuse" into the crowd, police said. The same person who threw it then received a second device from another counterprotester, which was dropped and did not appear to ignite."
""Violence at a protest is never acceptable," Mamdani said in a statement Sunday. "The attempt to use an explosive device and hurt others is not only criminal, it is reprehensible and the antithesis of who we are.""
A counterprotester threw an improvised explosive device containing nuts, bolts, screws, and a hobby fuse at participants during a far-right anti-Islam demonstration on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The device, which could have caused serious injury or death according to police analysis, extinguished itself steps from officers. A second suspicious device was also found in the area. Two counterprotesters were taken into custody, with charges pending. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed the device was not a hoax or smoke bomb. Federal prosecutors and the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force are participating in the investigation.
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