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A chaotic snowball fight in Washington Square Park on Monday degenerated into an assault on uniformed NYPD officers as dozens of participants pelted them with snow, ice and possible chunks of ice, sending multiple officers to hospitals with facial lacerations. Video shows officers being hit from multiple directions, shoved people to the ground and ultimately removed by EMS after being overwhelmed by the crowd.
Instead of unequivocally condemning the attack, Mayor Zohran Mamdani downplayed the violence, saying the footage he’d seen “looks like a snowball fight” and suggesting the participants were kids while urging New Yorkers to “treat them with respect.” He even signaled he did not believe criminal charges were warranted, a posture that reads like appeasement rather than leadership when officers were injured on the line of duty.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch called the conduct “disgraceful” and “criminal,” and the NYPD opened an investigation as unions blasted the mayor’s response as a “complete failure of leadership.” The Police Benevolent Association and the Detectives’ Endowment Association demanded the suspects be identified, arrested and prosecuted, warning that tolerating attacks on officers invites more brazen lawlessness.
This isn’t an isolated PR gaffe for Mamdani; his previous campaign rhetoric about police left a rift that today’s comments only deepen, confirming a pattern where anti-police sentiment is treated with indulgence rather than confronted. When elected leaders shrug at assaults on public servants, they send a clear message to bad actors that the cost of attacking the police may be minimal.
New Yorkers deserve accountability, not excuses: authorities must use every tool to identify those who threw snow and ice at officers and pursue appropriate charges, and the mayor should publicly commit to backing that effort instead of giving moral cover to the attackers. If city leadership continues to equivocate, citizens must use their voices and their votes to restore common-sense respect for law and order.
This episode is a stark reminder that order is not self-sustaining; it requires leaders who will stand unapologetically with the men and women who keep our streets safe. Patriotic New Yorkers and conservatives will not forget which officials side with law enforcement and which leaders shrug while officers are targeted, and that memory will shape the political consequences to come.
