Zohran Mamdani Takes Unbelievable Action After Suspect Arrested In The Snowball Attack On Uniformed Police Officers
NEW YORK, NY — The "innocent snowball fight" narrative peddled by City Hall has officially frozen over.
On Thursday, the NYPD’s warrants squad executed a 5 a.m. raid on a Bronx apartment, taking Gusmane Coulibaly, a 27-year-old social media personality, into custody. Coulibaly, who posts under the moniker “Diaper Man,” is the first of four suspects to be arrested in connection with a violent Washington Square Park melee that left two uniformed officers hospitalized.
The arrest has detonated a political firestorm, exposing a massive rift between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his own police force.
"A 27-YEAR-OLD IS NOT A KID"
The controversy began Monday when viral videos showed a rowdy crowd pelting retreating NYPD officers with snowballs packed with ice and rocks. While Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch immediately labeled the behavior "disgraceful" and "criminal," Mayor Zohran Mamdani took a shockingly different tone.
“I’ve seen the videos of kids throwing snowballs at members of the NYPD... it looked like kids at a snowball fight,” the Mayor stated earlier this week, suggesting that criminal charges were not warranted.
The Police Benevolent Association (PBA) wasted no time in torching the Mayor's assessment following Coulibaly's arrest.
“A 27-year-old is not a ‘kid,’ @NYCMayor,” the union wrote on X. “This individual is an adult with a recent attempted robbery arrest, and your message was that it’s OK for him to assault police officers for doing their job. This arrest sends a different message.”
THE "PRANKSTER'S" VIOLENT RECORD
Gusmane Coulibaly is far from the "innocent child" portrayed by the Mayor's rhetoric. A self-described content creator, Coulibaly records videos of himself pretending to be the "most disrespectful homeless man" in the city.
Most disturbingly, Coulibaly was arrested just three weeks ago on February 6th for an attempted robbery in a Bronx subway station. Video from that encounter shows Coulibaly approaching a stranger and demanding money, stating: “If I get mad I’m gonna have to run your pockets.”
While Coulibaly's attorney, George Vomvolakis, maintains the subway incident was a "prank" for a YouTube channel titled “Life of a Diaper,” the victim told police he feared for his life. Coulibaly was released on his own recognizance for that case and is due back in court on March 15.
CHARGES DOWNGRADED AMID OUTRAGE
Despite the NYPD originally seeking felony assault charges, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office chose to downgrade the charges against Coulibaly to misdemeanor obstructing governmental administration and a harassment violation.
Assistant District Attorney Vicki Notaro admitted that video clearly shows Coulibaly striking an officer in the face near his eye, but claimed they could not prove the officer's head and neck injuries were "directly caused" by Coulibaly's conduct specifically, as three other suspects were also throwing projectiles.
At his Thursday night arraignment, which was attended by a dozen stony-faced uniformed officers, Coulibaly was once again released on supervised release.
THE FALLOUT AT CITY HALL
The incident has become a rallying cry for critics of Mayor Mamdani’s past anti-police rhetoric. Former Governor Andrew Cuomo joined the fray, stating on X, “This is disgraceful. But with a mayor who has a history of calling the police ‘racist, evil, wicked and corrupt,’ he set the tone.”
While the Mayor's office continues to maintain that the situation was simply a "snowball fight that got out of hand," Commissioner Tisch and union leadership are vowing to find the remaining three suspects.
As PBA President Patrick Hendry told reporters after the court proceeding: “This was an attack on the uniform that these police officers wear so proudly every day. It didn’t end when the snow melted.”
Bondi Moved To Military Base Amid Threats From Cartels, Epstein Critics
Attorney General Pam Bondi and several other top officials in President Donald Trump’s administration have relocated to housing on a military base in the face of persistent threats.
Bondi “relocated” within the last month from an apartment to one of several military bases in Washington, where other Trump officials also reside, according to the New York Times, which cited several people with knowledge of the situation.
According to reports, Bondi’s move was prompted by threats from cartels and criticism regarding her handling of documents about convicted child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.
Other Trump officials who moved to military facilities amid security threats include Kristi Noem, who recently lost her gig as head of the Department of Homeland Security; Secretary of State Marco Rubio; and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
Although some reports claimed the housing was free, a representative for Noem previously told the Times that she was paying “fair-market rent” for her military base housing.
Threats against the attorney general have increased, according to Bondi’s staff, particularly in the last few months, due to the backlash against the Epstein files and the arrest of disputed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who is currently being charged with narco-terrorism in the United States.
After weeks of complaints about redactions and other issues in the files made public, Bondi said the Department of Justice had made “all” of Epstein’s files public.
The Justice Department on Thursday released three previously undisclosed interview summaries from the Epstein files containing uncorroborated allegations involving President Trump.
The documents include statements from a woman who alleged she was assaulted by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and by Trump when she was a minor, the Washington Times reported.
The Justice Department said the interview summaries had originally been withheld from the January release of Epstein-related documents because they were mistakenly labeled as duplicates.
“After this was brought to our attention, we reviewed the entire batch with the similar coding and discovered 15 documents were incorrectly coded as duplicative,” the department said.
Democrats in Congress are investigating whether the Justice Department withheld the files because they contain four FBI interview reports, known as 302s, involving a woman who accused Trump of sexual assault.
Trump has refuted any misconduct in relation to Epstein’s allegations and has not faced any criminal charges.
Also, the same trove of documents notes that Trump alerted authorities to Epstein in the mid-2000s after he suspected the financier of indecent behavior.
Trump has never been charged with crimes and has long denied involvement in Epstein’s illicit activities.
The newly released interviews were conducted in 2019 after Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the allegations.
“These are completely baseless accusations, backed by zero credible evidence, from a sadly disturbed woman who has an extensive criminal history,” Leavitt said.
Before the documents were released, congressional Democrats accused the Justice Department of violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
The law requires the government to release investigative records related to Epstein while protecting the identities of victims.
When many Epstein files were released in January, officials warned that some materials submitted to investigators may contain false or unverified claims.
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“This production may include fake or falsely submitted images, documents, or videos, as everything that was sent to the FBI by the public was included in the production that is responsive to the Act,” the Justice Department said.
“Some of the documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election,” the department said. “To be clear, the claims are unfounded and false, and if they have a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.”
