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New York City\u2019s Democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani broke his silence on Sunday, one full day after protesters shouting \u201cAllahu Akbar\u201d tossed two homemade devices into a crowd, after the New York Police Department\u2019s bomb squad confirmed that the devices were, in fact, lethal.<\/p>\n
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch issued a statement<\/a> on Sunday declaring that the first device had been determined to be a lethal improvised explosive device (IED), and that further studies would be done to determine whether the same could be said of the second device.<\/p>\n \u201cThe NYPD Bomb Squad has conducted a preliminary analysis of a device that was ignited and deployed at a protest yesterday and has determined that it is not a hoax device or a smoke bomb,\u201d Tisch stated. \u201cIt is, in fact, an improvised explosive device that could have caused serious injury or death.\u201d<\/p>\n Tisch said that the second device was still under investigation, and that \u201cfurther analysis\u201d was necessary.<\/p>\n \u201cEmir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi were arrested on scene yesterday and are in custody in connection with this matter,\u201d Tisch continued. \u201cThe NYPD is working on this investigation with our partners at the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District of New York and the FBI through our Joint Terrorism Task Force. I want to again thank the brave members of the NYPD who ran towards the danger without hesitation and quickly apprehended the suspects.\u201d<\/p>\n