Mayor Zohran Mamdani refused to endorse on Tuesday calls by police unions and the city’s police commissioner to treat a snowball fight at Washington Square Park as a criminal matter, urging New Yorkers instead to respect officers while repeatedly describing the incident as a snowball fight involving young people.
Speaking at a weather-related press conference in Brooklyn on Feb. 24, Mamdani said he had reviewed videos of Monday’s incident, but did not explicitly agree with characterizations from the Police Benevolent Association and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch of the incident as being criminal, despite an ongoing NYPD investigation.
