Law enforcement advocates are demanding arrests after NYPD police officers were filmed being repeatedly pelted with snow as they walked through a massive, pre-planned snowball fight in Washington Square Park on Monday.
A huge mob of rowdy winter warriors descended on a Manhattan park on Monday afternoon — throwing snowballs in a chaotic scene and tormenting cops, according to authorities and witnesses ... “The NewYork City blizzard snowball fight has happened.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani urged New Yorkers to treat cops with “respect” — but stopped short of condemning a snowball attack on NYPD officers in Washington Square Park and even appeared to joke about it.
A handful of playful NYPD officers was spotted chucking snowballs at each other and taking cover from return fire behind a road divider on Park Avenue near East65th Street in Manhattan during the blizzard.