NYPD, Mamdani and snowball fight
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What started as a joyous snowball fight Monday in New York City morphed into a political tempest after residents began pelting police officers with snow and ice.
A huge mob of rowdy winter warriors descended on a Manhattan park on Monday afternoon — throwing snowballs in a chaotic scene and tormenting cops, according to authorities and witnesses.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said officers had been attacked at Washington Square Park. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the episode looked like a snowball fight, not a crime.
NYPD officers were hit with snowballs on Monday when responding to a disorderly crowd at Washington Square Park, an incident the police commissioner called "criminal."