{"id":157876,"date":"2026-03-09T13:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/157876\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T13:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:47:08","slug":"news-12-the-bronx-410","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/157876\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | The Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch and Mayor Zohran Mamdani provided an update Monday on the chaotic weekend of protests that culminated with an explosive being thrown near Gracie Mansion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/6-arrested-after-explosive-device-thrown-during-protest-outside-gracie-mansion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The incident<\/a> occurred during a rally called \u201cStop the Islamic Takeover of New York City\u201d and a nearby counter protest named \u201cRun the Nazis Out of New York City \u2014 Stand Against Hate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say an 18-year-old counter-protester lit and tossed the explosive device toward the area. They say that same person later received a second device from another man and lit it, but dropped it before it ignited. <\/p>\n<p>A total of six suspects were ultimately arrested. Later that day, police say a <a href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/nypd-suspicious-devices-found-near-at-gracie-mansion-2-arrested\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suspicious device<\/a> was also found inside a parked car near the scene. <\/p>\n<p>Tisch stated during Monday\u2019s press conference that \u201cthis is being investigated as an act of ISIS-inspired terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDevices like these have the potential to cause devastating harm,\u201d she explained. \u201cWe were fortunate that the devices used this weekend did not cause the kind of harm that they were certainly capable of causing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani also spoke, thanking the officers who apprehended the suspects and protected the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to commend the officers who were on site, they faced a chaotic situation that very quickly could have become far more dangerous,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cNew York City will never tolerate violence, whether from protests or counter protests.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch and Mayor Zohran Mamdani provided an update Monday on the chaotic weekend of protests&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-157876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","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\/157876","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=157876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}