{"id":157937,"date":"2026-03-09T14:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/157937\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T14:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:45:09","slug":"isis-inspired-suspects-who-threw-ied-at-nyc-gracie-mansion-anti-islam-protestor-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/157937\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS inspired suspects who threw IED at NYC Gracie Mansion anti-Islam protestor: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gracie Mansion counterprotestors accused of throwing IEDs<\/a> were inspired by ISIS, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Monday.<\/p>\n

Ibraham Kayumi, 19, and Emir Balat, 18, were radicalized and bent on destruction,with two of the three devices<\/a> linked to them containing the hallmark explosive seen in bombings around the world, Tisch said at a Monday press conference at Gracie Mansion.<\/p>\n

Charges against the suspects are not yet clear, though it is expected they will include acts of terrorism and bomb making.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can confirm this morning that this is being investigated as an act of ISIS-inspired terrorism,\u201d Tisch said.<\/p>\n

The suspects were busted Saturday after allegedly hurling two inprovised explosive devices during a contentious clash between right-wing agitator Jake Lang, who hates Muslims, and his supporters, and pro-Muslim counterprotestors.<\/p>\n

\"TwoTwo suspects are arrested after a device was thrown at a rally organized by right-wing activist Jake Lang near Gracie Mansion on Saturday. (Barry Williams; Rebecca White \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The homemade explosives were packed with nails, bolts and triacetone triperoxide, or TATP. That substance, known informally as \u201cMother of Satan,\u201d is easy to make and and been a hallmark of various suicide bomb attacks.<\/p>\n

A third device found in the suspects\u2019 car on East End Ave. Sunday was not an explosvie, Tisch said.<\/p>\n

\"AA man flees after throwing a homemade device towards police during a protest organized by far-right influencer Jake Lang against alleged “Islamification” in front of Gracie Mansion, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s official residence, in Manhattan, New York on Saturday, March 7, 2026. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Tish noted that the last time an IED was used in the city was in 2017, when Akayed Ullah detonated a botched pipe bomb in a subway tunnel underneath the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Ullah is now serving life in prison.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were fortuanate that the devices used this weekend did not cause the kind of harm that they were certainly capable of causing,\u201d Tisch said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut luck is never a strategy. Devices like this have the potential to cause devastating harm, which is why the NYPD does counterterrorism investigations and treats every incident of its kind with the highest level of urgency \u2014 and it is why we remain vigiliant.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ViewView of an unexploded homemade explosive device thrown by a left-wing activist towards police during a protest organized by far-right influencer Jake Lang against alleged “Islamification” and to ask for a “stop of public Muslim prayer” in New York, in front of Gracie Mansion, New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s official residence, in New York on Saturday. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Mayor Mamdani, who was at a museum in Brooklyn with his wife when the incident happened, said that while the city will not tolerate violence he will never waver in his support of any group, no matter the rhetoric, to protest.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a vile protest rooted in white supremacy entitled \u2018Stop the Muslim Takeover of New York City,’\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cI\u2019m the first Muslim mayor of New York City. Anti-Muslim bigotry is nothing new to me nor is it anything new for the one million or so Muslim New Yorkers who know this city as our home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gracie Mansion counterprotestors accused of throwing IEDs were inspired by ISIS, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Monday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64,65227],"class_list":{"0":"post-157937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news","13":"tag-the-suspects-will-be-prosecuted-in-federal-court"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157937","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=157937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}