{"id":300897,"date":"2026-07-20T18:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/300897\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T18:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:30:12","slug":"explosion-outside-nyc-federal-building-leads-to-suspect-takedown-on-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/300897\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion Outside NYC Federal Building Leads to Suspect Takedown, on Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          NYC Explosion<br \/>\n                          Blast Rocks Federal Building, Agents Take Man Down<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              July 20, 2026<br \/>\n                            8:10 AM PDT<br \/>\n                                                                      |<br \/>\n                                                                Updated<br \/>\n                                  July 20, 2026<br \/>\n                                9:05 AM PDT\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0176b71cdfe34fc4a6b60ac6e1414e5c_md.png\" alt=\"explosion kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>An explosion rocked the sidewalk outside a major New York City federal building Monday morning &#8230; and officers wasted no time taking down a suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video &#8230; the explosive device erupts outside 26 Federal Plaza around 8:30 AM &#8212; unleashing a thick cloud of white smoke as people scramble for cover and officers race out of the building, some with their guns drawn.<\/p>\n<p>      JUST IN: Explosive Device Detonated Outside Federal Plaza in NYC\u2014Suspect in Custody <\/p>\n<p>Mamdani&#8217;s New York City is falling apart. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o5iVkGwVUE\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/o5iVkGwVUE<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@bennyjohnson<\/a>\n          <\/p>\n<p>The footage shows agents charging toward the smoking sidewalk before several of them surround a man and wrestle him to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20260720_aca89bad13d64e55b4d9d32e101e6ab1\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:d4b838ce-d3f1-4c5f-aab0-14fb7e333101\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/aca89bad13d64e55b4d9d32e101e6ab1_md.png\" alt=\"explosion sub 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement sources tell TMZ &#8230; an individual deployed an incendiary device outside the federal building. The person was taken into custody, and the FBI&#8217;s New York Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The aftermath shows officers directing people away from the scene and securing the perimeter as the smoke begins to clear.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20260720_40644148c2a24966b25e4cfcbd218fd2\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:d4b838ce-d3f1-4c5f-aab0-14fb7e333101\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/40644148c2a24966b25e4cfcbd218fd2_md.png\" alt=\"explosion sub 3\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The building was evacuated, and the surrounding sidewalk was closed off while authorities investigated.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear what type of device was used &#8230; an no word on a motive here.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYC Explosion Blast Rocks Federal Building, Agents Take Man Down Published July 20, 2026 8:10 AM PDT |&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,12,56,319,19598,19599],"class_list":["post-300897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300897","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=300897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}