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.

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    18 hours ago

    Remember when liberals were so pissed off at Mayor Adams that they threw a pipe bomb at his house? No?

    Huh. Weird.

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      Video seems to indicate that the IEDs were thrown at the nazis who were grilling a pig head in front of the mayor’s house.

      Why the NYPD was allowing a bbq on the sidewalk isn’t clear to me yet

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      So not that I contest your point but the article says the bombs were thrown by counter protesters. Not the anti Islam protesters