Device thrown near Mamdani’s residence in NYC was IED with risk of ‘serious injury or death,’ NYPD says - Lemmy.World

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.