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New York City police said on Sunday (March 8) that a device ignited and thrown during protests outside the home of Mayor Zohran Mamdani over the weekend was an explosive that could have caused serious injury or death.

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00:04New York City police said on Sunday that a device ignited and thrown during protests outside the home of Mayor
00:10Zoran Mamdani over the weekend was an explosive that could have caused serious injury or death.
00:16The device, a jar filled with nuts, bolts and screws and wrapped in black tape with a fuse, was thrown
00:23by a counter-protester on Saturday outside Gracie Mansion. It extinguished itself before it could explode.
00:31Jessica Tisch, commissioner of the New York City Police Department, said two people were taken into custody following the incident.
00:37The device was one of two thrown during the protests, which involved two opposing groups.
00:43The second device is still being examined. Far-right activist Jake Lang led a protest on Saturday outside Gracie Mansion,
00:51where Mamdani lives with his wife, against what he claimed was an Islamic takeover of New York City and against
00:57public Muslim prayers.
00:59It is believed Mamdani and his wife were at home at the time. Mamdani condemned Lang's protest, but said the
01:06violence that followed was even more disturbing.
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