Overview
- Police say officers were dispatched just after 4 p.m. to Washington Square Park, where a large, online-organized snowball fight had drawn hundreds.
- Widely shared videos show officers taunted and struck with snowballs, with some pushing people to the ground as they attempted to leave and a police vehicle also targeted.
- The NYPD said multiple uniformed officers were hit in the face and transported by EMS to a nearby hospital in stable condition.
- As of the latest reporting, no arrests had been announced as investigators work to identify participants from the videos, which is complicated by masked faces in the crowd.
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani posted that officers deserve respect and joked he would take the snowball, while the PBA and DEA condemned the conduct and pressed for arrests and prosecutions.