New York City police are investigating after officers were pelted with snowballs while responding to a massive snowball fight at Washington Square Park in Manhattan.
A video of the fracas shows two uniformed officers pacing a walkway in the park Monday as snowballs fly at them from all directions, hitting the officers and covering them in snow.
The officers, growing visibly frustrated, shoved at least two people to the ground as snowballs continued to whizz by. At one point, a person runs up behind an officer and mushes some snow onto his head. One of the officers can be seen rubbing his eye toward the end of the video.
In a statement Tuesday, the New York Police Department said multiple uniformed officers were struck in the face with snowballs and were “removed by EMS in stable condition” to a nearby hospital, but did not disclose additional information on their injuries.
There used to be cops who knew how to deal with people on a human level.
Then 9/11/2001 happened and every cop in America was told that they were the front line of the War On Terror.
Basic common sense was replaced by The Punisher mind set.
Pre 9/11 cops would have looked, reported that it was just a snowball fight and walked away. These idiots had to be tough guys.
Police officers in any other Nordic country likely would have joined in when they saw that all is fine and it’s just a snowball fight
I live in NYC.
Some idiot would see the cops throwing snowballs and put a rock in theirs.