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New York City police investigating after officers were hit with snowballs during a snowball fight (apnews.com)

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NEW YORK (AP) — 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.

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[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

It's Washington Square Park, it's possible that nobody called them - cops are just normally around there.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 points 13 hours ago

Fun police here! Looks like youre all having to many funs per hour.

[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The article says that they were responding to a call about a snowball fight.

[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

There's nothing in the article about a call though.

That's why I figured they probably were just walking their normal beat and ran across the snowball fight but hell if I know. It's just, there's so much shit going on all the time I doubt the NYPD would even dispatch cops to a call about a snowball fight.

Usually they just will be a part of it, it sounds like maybe there were some people being a little too aggressive or violent towards the cops but I mean also ACAB so maybe the cops are just being butthurt.

Honestly of all the places I've visited or lived I felt like the NYPD were the most professional and helpful cops. Which is pretty sad but the bar is real low.

[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

My bad, apparently the word "responded" was all that stuck in my head from the first paragraph and my stupid brain incorrectly filled the blanks.