{"id":76,"date":"2026-03-09T01:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2026-03-09T02:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T02:02:55","slug":"counterprotester-threw-improvised-explosive-at-anti-islam-event-in-nyc-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/blog\/2026\/03\/09\/counterprotester-threw-improvised-explosive-at-anti-islam-event-in-nyc-police-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosive Device Thrown at NYC Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;A device&nbsp;thrown by a counterprotester&nbsp;at an anti-Islam demonstration in New York City on Saturday was confirmed to be an improvised explosive, according to a preliminary police analysis. As the investigation continued on Sunday, police said they were looking into a second suspicious device found in the same area of Manhattan\u2019s Upper East Side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two people were in custody for their alleged role in Saturday\u2019s confrontation, which unfolded during a \u201cStop the Islamic Takeover of New York City\u201d event led by the far right activist Jake Lang outside the Manhattan residence of Mayor Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sparsely attended event drew a far larger group of counterdemonstrators, including one person who tossed a smoking object containing nuts, bolts, screws and a \u201chobby fuse\u201d into the crowd, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/f86cbefd-598c-4d58-983a-5076a4044715-1024x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/f86cbefd-598c-4d58-983a-5076a4044715-1024x534.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/f86cbefd-598c-4d58-983a-5076a4044715-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/f86cbefd-598c-4d58-983a-5076a4044715-768x400.jpg 768w, https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/f86cbefd-598c-4d58-983a-5076a4044715-1536x801.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/f86cbefd-598c-4d58-983a-5076a4044715-2048x1067.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/f86cbefd-598c-4d58-983a-5076a4044715-18x9.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;A device&nbsp;thrown by a counterprotester&nbsp;at an anti-Islam demonstration in New York City on Saturday was confirmed to be an improvised explosive, according to a preliminary police analysis. As the investigation continued on Sunday, police said they were looking into a second suspicious device found in the same area of Manhattan\u2019s Upper East Side. Two people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}