We really wish Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg hadn\u2019t joined Mayor Zohran Mamdani in failing to support police officers who got assaulted in the course of doing their duty.<\/p>\n
Bragg\u2019s office dropped the most serious charges<\/a> against the first perp arrested for throwing frozen snowballs at cops answering a 911 call about chaos in Washington Square Park. <\/p>\n Prosecutors claimed they\u2019d have trouble proving that Gusmane Coulibaly, 27, was responsible for the injuries that have a cop out on sick leave mending from injuries near his eye caused by the snowball attacks, but they certainly could\u2019ve tried.<\/p>\n The effort would at least have signaled that the DA\u2019s Office has the back of the officers it\u2019s supposed to work with; instead, this was one more sign that Bragg\u2019s sympathies are with the criminals.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was meant to be fun,\u2019\u2019\u00a0the perp claims<\/a>, pretending ignorance of the perils of throwing anything at people who carry guns \u2014 or was the \u201cfun\u201d in knowing the cops didn\u2019t dare fight back?<\/p>\n He sure doesn\u2019t seem worried now that the charges are trivial; too bad \u2014 throwing the book at him might\u2019ve encouraged cooperation in finding the other perps <\/a>who remain at large.<\/p>\n \t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n Coulibaly\u2019s certainly not the harmless \u201ckid\u201d that Mamdani keeps calling the snowballers<\/a>: He\u2019s already due in court on March 15 for an\u00a0alleged straphanger shakedown<\/a> that he claims was just a stunt intended to boost his hopes of becoming a YouTube influencer. \u00a0<\/p>\n