A viral snowball fight in Washington Square Park after a historic blizzard has escalated into the first major public confrontation between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the NYPD’s powerful police unions — exposing early fractures in a relationship City Hall had spent months trying to stabilize.
The confrontation occurred Feb. 22, when hundreds of people — many appearing to be students from nearby New York University — gathered in Washington Square Park for a snowball fight after heavy snow blanketed the city. Videos that quickly spread across social media showed participants throwing snowballs at police officers.
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