Some officers were left hospitalized after a large crowd threw snow at them Monday in Washington Square Park, according to officials.<\/p>\n
Authorities say they initially received a call reporting a disorderly group in the area around 4 p.m.<\/p>\n
When responding officers arrived, they began throwing snowballs. Some were hit in the face and injured.<\/p>\n
The incident sparked outrage from both law enforcement and politicians.<\/p>\n
Bronx Councilman Oswald Feliz reacted on X, saying that police officers deserve respect from the public.<\/p>\n
Mayor Zohran Mamdani posted a statement on X, telling the public to respect officers as they work to keep the city safe.<\/p>\n
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and other police officials condemned the act, even calling it criminal.<\/p>\n
Gov. Kathy Hochul called the incident unacceptable in a statement on X.<\/p>\n
The Police Benevolent Association called for the arrest of those involved.<\/p>\n
Former NYPD Chief John Chell chimed in a post on X. He called for police to show up to Washington Square Park and other parks in full force.<\/p>\n
Bronx Borough President Venessa Gibson spoke out against the act on social media and wished the injured officers well.<\/p>\n
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis called the incident disgraceful and called for accountability.<\/p>\n
Tisch says the incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some officers were left hospitalized after a large crowd threw snow at them Monday in Washington Square Park,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[5219,128,9,24,63,103,8555,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-144094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-attack","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-snow","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}