{"id":511484,"date":"2026-03-08T17:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T17:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/511484\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T17:03:09","slug":"police-investigating-after-device-thrown-at-anti-islam-protest-in-new-york-city-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/511484\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating after device thrown at anti-Islam protest in New York City | New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

A counterprotester demonstrating against a \u201cStop the Islamic Takeover of New York<\/a> City\u201d event on Saturday lit and threw a device containing nuts, bolts and screws at the protesting crowd after someone from that group used pepper spray on the counterprotest, police said.<\/p>\n

Police are investigating the incident that started late Saturday morning when someone from the anti-Islam protest associated with conservative influencer Jake Lang shot pepper spray into a counterprotesting group near the mayoral residence Gracie Mansion, Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.<\/p>\n

Tensions continued to heighten, she said, when someone in the counterprotest lit and threw a device she described as smaller than a football into the protesting crowd of about 20 people.<\/p>\n

The device struck a barrier and extinguished itself \u201ca few feet from police officers\u201d, she said. The same person then ran, and another person gave a him a second device, which he then dropped. The devices, which Tisch said were smaller than a football, were wrapped in black tape with nuts, bolts, and screws, as well as a hobby fuse that could be lit. She said it was unclear if they were functioning devices or a hoax.<\/p>\n

All three people have been arrested, and an investigation is underway, Tisch said.<\/p>\n

Tisch didn\u2019t report any injuries during a news conference and said she believed Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> was not in the residence at the time.<\/p>\n

Lang was previously charged with assaulting an officer with a baseball bat, civil disorder and other crimes before receiving clemency as part of Donald Trump\u2019s sweeping act of clemency for January 6 defendants last year. Lang recently announced that he is running for US Senate in Florida.<\/p>\n

Lang has also protested in Minneapolis during the Trump administration\u2019s immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n

Tisch said about 20 people showed up to the protest tied to him on Saturday, and the counterprotest had about 125 people at its peak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A counterprotester demonstrating against a \u201cStop the Islamic Takeover of New York City\u201d event on Saturday lit and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-511484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}