An NYPD spokeswoman said two counterprotesters, identified as 18-year-old Amir Balat and 19-year-old Ibrahim Nick, threw improvised devices at demonstrators participating in a "Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City" protest. Both suspects were arrested shortly after the incident.

"Then, at approximately 12:38 p.m., a counterprotester identified as 18-year-old Amir Balat lit and threw an ignited device toward the protest area. It landed in the crosswalk at East 87th Street and East End Avenue. Witnesses reported seeing flames and smoke as it traveled through the air. It struck a barrier a few feet from police officers and extinguished itself," NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a press conference on Saturday evening.

Tisch said Balat targeted right-wing activist Jake Lang with "devices smaller than a football, which appeared to be jars wrapped in black tape containing nuts, bolts, and screws, along with a hobby fuse that could be lit."

She continued, "At this time, we do not yet know whether these were functional improvised explosive devices or hoax devices. The bomb squad is analyzing them further."

Far-left Mayor Zohran Mamdani blasted the protest as "despicable and Islamophobic," but there was no condemnation of the two suspects who threw a shrapnel-packed explosive device while shouting "Allahu Abar."

The Atlantic was forced to come to this realization last fall. 

And now we know why. 

"There seems to be much confusion about yesterday's event where two Muslim teenagers yelled "Allahu Akbar" and threw bombs at right wing protesters in front of Zohran Mamdani's Gracie Mansion. Had these bombs detonated, it would have clearly fit the textbook definition of Islamic terrorism. Unfortunately, the majority of NYC politicians and journalists are so far-left that they cannot acknowledge such facts, so the reporting either focuses on the right-wing extremist protest, leaves out that the bomb-throwing Muslim men yelled "Allahu Akbar," or twists the story into a complete lie that right-wing protesters brought a bomb to Gracie Mansion because Islamophobia," an NGO researcher with focus in the NYC ecosystem told us.

Let's recall that one week ago, a nationalized citizen with a "Property of Allah" shirt opened fire at an Austin, Texas bar, killing 3 and wounding 14 others.