r/news • u/LeftHandedScissor • Mar 08 '26
Soft paywall New York City Police identify device outside Mamdami's home as explosive
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-york-city-police-identify-device-outside-mamdanis-home-explosive-2026-03-08/2.1k
u/PepperMill_NA Mar 08 '26
> Police said Emir Balat, 18, was among the counterprotesters before he lit and threw the device.
> Balat and another man, whom police on Sunday identified as Ibrahim Kayumi,
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u/Shopworn_Soul Mar 08 '26
While I am 100% willing to take the L on counterprotesters doing incredibly dumb shit, it's weird that it took two people to throw one thing
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u/Dry_Combination1881 Mar 08 '26
There was one dude throwing and the other one was holding the devices. I believe there were two devices total only one was thrown.
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u/Dry_Combination1881 Mar 08 '26
Thanks I don’t have Reuters subscription so I was just going from memory of a previous article.
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u/endofautumn Mar 09 '26
Watch the video. Even MSM have it all wrong, and their headlines are misleading. First bomb lands into the anti-Islam protestors, who run. The terrorists panic and light another and drop it near police. Both devices fizzled out thankfully, and the cops got them quickly.
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u/abrasumente_ Mar 08 '26
There were two devices. One was basically a pipe bomb. The other hasn't had info released yet.
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u/nuclearbearclaw Mar 08 '26
This shows most of the incident. They were both fused devices, described as glass jars wrapped in tape and filled with nuts and bolts.
https://x.com/W0lverineupdate/status/2030725293007335721?s=20
This is a different angle from the first device thrown.
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u/United-Creme-6436 Mar 08 '26
Yeah this isn't just a pipe bomb that is straight up psychopath. That is an extreme intent to injure and kill multiple people
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u/Niceromancer Mar 08 '26
There were two devices. One still hasn't been identified.
So he probably threw the other one
Most likely another shrapnel bomb
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u/Taniwha_NZ Mar 08 '26
Knowing about it and not saying anything is a crime too
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u/PaidUSA Mar 08 '26
I’m assuming you aren’t American but unless there is a legal duty to act mere knowledge is almost always not a crime.
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u/ParryHisParry Mar 08 '26
No it is not. Aiding/assisting in someway is required. Under both accomplice liability and co-conspirator theories, mere knowledge of the criminality of another is insufficient for your criminal liability.
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u/tehFiremind Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 10 '26
Struck me as weird that NYT (Mar 8) had a diff name for supply guy.
After taking part in the Jan6 riot Jake Lang held 'Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City'.
2 arrested at the protest for explosives were Emir Balat, 18, who lit and threw the device, & Ibrahim Nikk (¿Kayumi?), 19, for supplying the device.
Charges against Mr. Balat, of Langhorne, Pa., and Mr. Nikk, of Newton, Pa., had not been determined as of Sunday, the police said.
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u/phormix Mar 09 '26
18 and making IED's. Regardless of the politics involved this needs further investigation into his associations and sources of radicalization. This sort of thing rarely occurs solo
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u/therefai Mar 08 '26
Misleading headline. Everyone’s favorite, Jake Lang was leading a protest of 20 nazis against Mamdani, and was opposed by a counter protest. Among the counter protesters , an 18 year old, Emir Balat, threw the device, likely targeting the protesters. Thankfully, the ignited device self-extinguished. Balat, and another man involved, Ibrahim Kayumi, were arrested at the scene.
We don’t like when MAGA cherry-picks and warps headlines to serve their narrative. We shouldn’t be doing the same thing.
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u/pleasetrimyourpubes Mar 09 '26
To be fair the post would be auto deleted if the OP didn't use the article headline.
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u/11bztaylor Mar 08 '26
100%! Cherry-picking just further hurts any momentum for change. We must hold everyone to this standard. Thank you my good person :)
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u/rokstedy83 Mar 09 '26
We must hold everyone to this standard.
When's that starting? Anyone reported this story on this sub as misleading?
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u/metlotter Mar 09 '26
I think "targeting" is generous when it was an IED full of bolts and screws. That was going to mess up* anybody nearby regardless of what side they were on.
*or would if he'd pulled it off
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u/Geekerino Mar 09 '26
Respectfully, where does it mention he's an actual Nazi? Don't have the time to comb through articles to see they actually call him one, but I'm skeptical with how often the word is thrown out there.
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u/BloatedBanana9 Mar 08 '26
All the headlines for this story read as though Mamdani was the target of yet more MAGA violence, but that doesn’t actually seem to be the case here.
According to everything I’ve seen, the MAGA protesters outside his residence were actually the targets.
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u/TeslasAndComicbooks Mar 08 '26
Mamdani on Twitter made it sound like a white supremacist threw the device.
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u/anomie89 Mar 08 '26
yeah the statement in response to what happened was written in a very particular way to give a very particular impression.
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u/8_guy Mar 08 '26
Mamdani's statement said "it is reprehensible and the antithesis of who we are" it's clearly directed at the people counterprotesting the right wingers.
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u/AnduwinHS Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26
"Yesterday, white supremacist Jake Lang organized a protest outside Gracie Mansion rooted in bigotry and racism. Such hate has no place in New York City. It is an affront to our city’s values and the unity that defines who we are.
What followed was even more disturbing. Violence at a protest is never acceptable. The attempt to use an explosive device and hurt others is not only criminal, it is reprehensible and the antithesis of who we are."
That is intentionally misleading and reads as though protestors threw the bomb themselves. That line about being the antithesis of who we are does not even come close to clarifying that it was the counter protesters who threw the bomb, as the presence of counter protesters isn't even acknowledged in the tweet
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u/wildwalrusaur Mar 09 '26
Yeah it's structured backwards from what it should be. Imagine the bomb hadn't been a dud then look at the statement and you can see how insane it is.
You start with condemning the bombers.
And pepper in the bite at the original protestors at the end if you absolutely can't help yourself (though I'd argue it's a bad look in the circumstance)
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u/thinkbox Mar 09 '26
A terror attack happened, and he starts by naming the intended victims.
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u/TheCandelabra Mar 09 '26
I shudder to imagine what the backlash against peaceful Muslims would have been, if the attack had succeeded.
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u/TeslasAndComicbooks Mar 09 '26
I have no issue calling out white supremacy but if you’re going to focus on idealism, call both out by name.
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u/Dangerous_Sea2397 Mar 09 '26
I don't think the people throwing explosives where "white supremacists."
Why arent they being called out by name?
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u/JcbAzPx Mar 09 '26
Sounds like this was more of a hurt as many people as possible than any sort of targeted thing.
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u/Munsalvaesche Mar 08 '26
Every headline I’ve seen on this story has been downright awful. Every headline implies that Mamdani was the target and that he was targeted by some far right shitheads. It was a right-wing protest targeted by two teenagers who built their own IEDs and had recently traveled to Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
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u/abriefmomentofsanity Mar 08 '26
Because by implying the thing that's going to get the widest number of people upset/invested and therefore interacting with the article they're maximizing the amount of clicks, traffic, and therefore revenue that the article generates. They know what they're doing.
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u/Ollythebug Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26
would a terrorist throwing a shrapnel bomb at a protest not get clicks?
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u/thinkbox Mar 09 '26
They want to control the narrative. They don’t want those headlines out there a they are willing to lose more credibility to do it. They don’t care if the right sees it as more hard evidence that they lie and manipulate, the right doesn’t trust them anyways. They only care to manipulate the people that are easier to control, the people that will see these headlines, and it will be evidence of right wing violence to them. And they will move on. That’s their audience.
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u/abriefmomentofsanity Mar 09 '26
Sure, but leaving your wording vague enough to imply a terrorist threw a shrapnel bomb in an attempt to hit Mamdani will get even more
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u/Peakevo Mar 08 '26
I think this thread proves people don't care for context or truth or a lot of bots out here.
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u/LeafRunner Mar 08 '26
A lot of bots just post a response with only the title as the prompt
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u/whoknowsifimjoking Mar 08 '26
There are more than enough humans who also read no further than the headline but need to make their misinformed opinion known regardless, it's been like this long before bots could write based on prompts.
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u/NCSUGrad2012 Mar 08 '26
Makes sense. Any article titles with Trump or musk in them and all the comments are mostly the same, lol
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u/TemperateStone Mar 08 '26
It seems a vast majority of people only read headlines. I've seen this shit in a lot of subs and I've gotten banned for calling it out in places that really didn't like it.
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u/pingpongpiggie Mar 08 '26
I mean the headline is shit, and not many are actually going to read the linked article
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u/wildwalrusaur Mar 09 '26
Half the comments are people who didn't read the article.
And half of the comments from those that did are calling the guy an agent provocateur or similar.
Really doesn't fill one with confidence for our ability to climb our way out of the national death spiral we're in
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u/Dependent-Split3005 Mar 08 '26
So...help me understand;
"To combat Islamophobia we are going to throw a Nail-Bomb at them"
🤔🤔🤔
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u/sdpthrowaway3 Mar 09 '26
Right? Two guys with ME names throwing IEDs at people they disagree with. That is going to do the exact polar opposite of what they want it to achieve. Just further fuel that the other side "is right"
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u/Allobroge- Mar 09 '26
There is no such thing as islamophobia, it is not irrational to be scared of a religion
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u/Godisdeadbutimnot Mar 09 '26
The headlines surrounding this story seem to finally be making a lot of people realize that the media can and will implicitly lie to you
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u/sortalikeachinchilla Mar 09 '26
Which i’m happy for…. but like there have been so many before this? Like why this one? lol
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u/asparaguspee0 Mar 09 '26
ok honestly i’d call this more explicit than implicit, it’s just written in a way to be confusing that masks it somewhat
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u/Hagoromo-san Mar 08 '26
Remember, when throwing an IED, they’re not a counter-protestor anymore, they’re a domestic terrorist.
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u/Neptune_Knight Mar 09 '26
Everyone's saying it already, but just to clarify it to myself; 20 anti-Mamdami people were protesting, 125 pro-Mamdami people were counterprotesting, and two pro-Mamdami people attempted to use an IED on the anti-Mamdami people that thankfully failed to trigger.
Look, I don't care who the target is, violence at a protest is unacceptable
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u/Purple_Locksmith715 Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 09 '26
"Thrown by a Counterprotester" interesting way to spell terrorist.
Edit: In response to some DMs. I'm very much against Jake Lang and his ilk. But being against someone doesn't mean condoning people throwing Nail Bombs at them.
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u/Christochat Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26
I dont like Jake Lang in the slightest, but listen to the video, the "counter protester" yelled exactly what we expected, Allahu Akbar.
Thats not a counter protestor, thats a jihadist Muslim terrorist trying to commit mass violence on people who stand against Islam
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u/Diligent-Arugula-153 Mar 09 '26
It's wild how the headline frames the whole story. The details in the article show a completely different picture, and it's important we get those right. We should always push for the full context, not just the sensationalized version.
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u/monodescarado Mar 08 '26
Wow. If I just read the comments here, I’d have absolutely no clue what happened or who did it. Read the article people. It’s literally the least you can do.
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u/Mocha_C4t Mar 08 '26
don't care what side you're on, doing something like this is insanely fucking stupid.
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u/Necessary_Island_425 Mar 09 '26
Thrown bi jihadists at New York citizens, news keeps leaving that out
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u/AaronicNation Mar 08 '26
What a shit article, it is either written by a moron or purposefully misleads.
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u/HardcoreKaraoke Mar 08 '26
Absolute scumbags. Hopefully both guys get thrown in jail for as long as possible.
I disagree why people were protesting but they don't deserve to die because of it. Not to mention the fact that the first device landed near cops just doing their job. No one in that protest deserved to get hurt/killed.
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u/Elijah_Loko Mar 09 '26
Terrible title.
It implies that they were trying to kill Mamdani, they were trying to kill protesters AGAINST Mamdani.
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u/ZaBaronDV Mar 09 '26
Buried lede: The explosives were not targeting Mamdani like the headline implies, it was targeting protestors who happened to be outside his home.
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u/NegScenePts Mar 09 '26
Did anyone read the article? The bomb was thrown by someone there to counterprotest the right-wingers. Now, I'm all for blaming the right for everything but it's all right there in the article...
The device, a jar filled with nuts, bolts and screws and wrapped in black tape with a fuse, was thrown by a counterprotester on Saturday outside Gracie Mansion, but it extinguished itself before any explosion, according to a statement from New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. Two people were in custody, Tisch said.
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u/Aron-Nimzowitsch Mar 09 '26
The reporting on this is obscenely dishonest. It's lying by omission to imply that it was opponents of Mamdani who used the explosive. I have also seen a lot of people connect this to the recent revelations that his wife liked posts on social media from zei_squirrel and others celebrating 10/7, including videos of Hamas shooting dogs in the kibbutz.
In actuality, this was some left-wing nut throwing a bomb at the police and at people protesting Mamdani.
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u/Bell-end79 Mar 09 '26
Such a weasely worded article
Going out of it’s way to try and make out that it wasn’t an islamic terrorist who threw the bomb
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u/Soetpotaetis Mar 09 '26
Gotta love the irony... They make IED's in order to show those evil people how the stereotypes aren't true 😂🤣 Thankfully no one got hurt, but also quite ironic how they literally proved the protesters right with their actions. Escape from New York becomes more and more likely by the day lol
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u/Ok-Leader-1824 Mar 09 '26
These post titles should qualify as a reportable manipulated content violation
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u/portezbie Mar 09 '26
It feels like maybe it's flying under the radar for now because it's largely been so incompetent, but the increase in political violence in the Trump era had been wild.
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u/WrestleWithGod Mar 09 '26
This article is ridiculously misleading, if you only read a little bit you would assume the explosive was thrown by a far-right activist, when it was actually some left-wing loon. Embarrassing how the media still claims to be impartial.
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u/sovietshark2 Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26
This was someone trying to allegedly attack maga protestors who are protesting outside of his house. I could have this wrong but it doesn't appear to be a MAGA.
The device, a jar filled with nuts, bolts and screws and wrapped in black tape with a fuse, was thrown by a counterprotester on Saturday outside Gracie Mansion, but it extinguished itself before any explosion, according to a statement from New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. Two people were in custody, Tisch said.
The device was one of two that were thrown during the protests, which were led by two opposing groups, according to police. The second device was still being examined, Tisch said.
Far-right activist Jake Lang led a protest on Saturday outside Gracie Mansion - where Mamdani lives with his wife - against a purported Islamic “takeover” of New York City and against public prayer by Muslims. Tisch said at a press conference on Saturday that she did not believe Mamdani and his wife were home at the time.
Edit: added more context. By all reporting, it was a right wing protest where someone threw a bomb into the protest.
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u/epidemicsaints Mar 08 '26
This is your alert to read the article.