{"id":199014,"date":"2026-04-16T07:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199014\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:11:09","slug":"men-charged-with-bringing-bombs-to-anti-muslim-new-york-protest-plead-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199014\/","title":{"rendered":"Men charged with bringing bombs to anti-Muslim New York protest plead not guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Two men pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges they brought homemade bombs<\/a> to an anti-Islam protest outside the New York City\u2019s mayor\u2019s home in a failed attempt at a terror attack inspired by the Islamic State group.<\/p>\n

Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, entered the pleas during a brief appearance in federal court in Manhattan. <\/p>\n

The two, who are both from the Philadelphia area, face charges that include attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and using a weapon of mass destruction. <\/p>\n

Prosecutors say Balat and Kayumi drove from their home state to Manhattan in order to attack a March 7 anti-Islam demonstration<\/a> in front of Gracie Mansion. The protest was hosted by Jake Lang, a far-right activist and critic of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the first Muslim to hold the office.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors say the pair threw two devices containing the explosive TATP and shrapnel, but the jar-sized bombs failed to detonate. No one was injured and the two were quickly detained. The mayor and his wife were not home at the time. <\/p>\n

Balat and Kayumi later told police they were inspired by the Islamic State group, according to a federal complaint<\/a>. The two were also recorded on their vehicle\u2019s dashcam describing their plan to kill as many as 60 people in a bid to \u201cstart terror,\u201d according to prosecutors. <\/p>\n

Balat\u2019s lawyer declined to comment after the hearing. Kayumi\u2019s attorneys didn\u2019t immediately respond to an email seeking comment. Their next court date is June 16. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Two men pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges they brought homemade bombs to an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7080,419,303,417,8409,64887,65202,64663,75,9,24,11,10,49,51,50,6657,3909,7703,3694,421,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-199014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-bombings","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-gracie-mansion","13":"tag-ibrahim-kayumi","14":"tag-islamic-state-group","15":"tag-jake-lang","16":"tag-manhattan","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-new-york-headlines","20":"tag-new-york-news","21":"tag-new-york-state","22":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","23":"tag-new-york-state-news","24":"tag-pa-state-wire","25":"tag-pennsylvania","26":"tag-protests-and-demonstrations","27":"tag-terrorism","28":"tag-u-s-news","29":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199014","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=199014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}