Two homemade bombs tossed during protests outside New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Manhattan home on Saturday are being investigated as an act of ISIS-inspired terrorism, NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Monday.
The first improvised explosive device was thrown as anti-Islam protesters clashed with counterprotesters and did not explode. Two men arrested in connection with the device admitted to being inspired by ISIS, law enforcement sources told CNN.
The same man who threw the IED lit a second bomb, dropped it on the street and ran, the police commissioner said. It also did not explode.
“Preliminary test results determined that these were not hoax devices, nor smoke bombs. They were improvised explosive devices that could have caused serious injury or death,” Tisch said at a news conference with the mayor.
And a third device – found Sunday – is being investigated “in connection with” Saturday’s incident, NYPD said.
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