social media post<\/a> Sunday.<\/p>\nThe homemade devices, which did not explode, were hurled Saturday during raucous counterprotests against an anti-Islamic demonstration led by Jake Lang, a far-right activist and critic of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a Democrat and the first Muslim to hold the office. Mamdani and his wife weren\u2019t at the house, called Gracie Mansion, at the time. <\/p>\n
Speaking outside the residence Monday morning, Mamdani said Balat and Kayumi \u201ctraveled from Pennsylvania and attempted to bring violence to New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t immediately clear whether 18-year-old Balat or 19-year-old Kayumi have attorneys who can speak to the accusations. Attempts to reach their families were not immediately successful.<\/p>\n
Tisch said there are no indications that the men\u2019s alleged activities were connected to the ongoing war in Iran. She declined to say more about why authorities believe the suspects were motivated by Islamic State, a Sunni extremist group. Iran\u2019s population is almost entirely Shiite, the other main religious community within Islam.<\/p>\n
While Mamdani and Tisch briefed reporters Monday, Lang heckled from outside the Gracie Mansion gates.<\/p>\n
Lang\u2019s sparsely attended protest Saturday drew a far larger group of counterdemonstrators, including one person who police say tossed a smoking object containing nuts, bolts, screws and a \u201chobby fuse\u201d into the crowd. <\/p>\n
The device extinguished itself steps from police officers, Tisch noted. The person who threw it then dropped a second device that did not appear to ignite, the commissioner said. <\/p>\n
The scene had grown chaotic even before the devices were thrown. Police said one person involved in the anti-Islam protest, Ian McGinnis, 21, was arrested after pepper-spraying counterprotesters. A message seeking comment was left for an attorney for McGinnis.<\/p>\n
Three others were taken into custody but were released without charges.<\/p>\n
After the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Lang was charged with assaulting an officer with a baseball bat, civil disorder and other crimes. He was later freed from prison as part of President Trump\u2019s sweeping act of clemency. Lang recently announced that he is running for U.S. Senate in Florida.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, he organized a rally in Minneapolis in support of Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown, drawing an angry crowd of counterprotesters who quickly chased him away. <\/p>\n
Offenhartz writes for the Associated Press. AP writers Jennifer Peltz in New York and David Collins in Hartford, Conn., contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Two men suspected of bringing explosives to a protest outside New York City\u2019s mayoral mansion were in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13355,64983,8409,65301,64887,65302,64663,1445,8639,9,24,56,63,65,64,8568,104,15276,11570,21265],"class_list":{"0":"post-158101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-authority","9":"tag-explosive","10":"tag-gracie-mansion","11":"tag-homemade-device","12":"tag-ibrahim-kayumi","13":"tag-islamic-state-extremist-group","14":"tag-jake-lang","15":"tag-mamdani","16":"tag-man","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nyc-headlines","22":"tag-nyc-news","23":"tag-person","24":"tag-police","25":"tag-residence","26":"tag-tisch","27":"tag-u-s-capitol"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158101","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=158101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}