The NYPD announced today that a 27-year-old man was arrested and charged Thursday morning for assaulting NYPD officers in Washington Square Park.<\/p>\n
\tThe man, Gusmane Coulibaly, of The Bronx, was seen on video posted on social media with a large mound of snow in his hands. <\/p>\n
Coulibaly is being charged with assault of a police officer, obstruction of government administration and disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n
\tPolice are still looking for other people who were involved in this attack.<\/p>\n
\tPolice say that Coulibaly was previously arrested less than three weeks ago for an attempted robbery in the transit system.<\/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
In a press conference he said, “I’ve seen the videos of this snowball fight. I think that it was a snowball fight.”<\/p>\n
The mayor added, “they and our entire city workforce deserve to be treated with respect. The only person in our city’s workforce who deserves to be treated with a snowball is me.” <\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD announced today that a 27-year-old man was arrested and charged Thursday morning for assaulting NYPD officers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-146204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146204","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=146204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}