Link: https://www.newschannel5.com/us-news/crime/new-york-city-police-investigating-after-officers-were-hit-with-snowballs-during-a-snowball-fight

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.

Whew, they're in stable condition. Anyone see the video floating around? I can't find it.

was literally in the article you linked

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Egp0591Q9RI

that said, it's sad that they just can't stand seeing a community having fun together and must do something to stop it... how pathetic.

assault on cops... please, why were they even there for more then a few minutes. observe from a distance... confirm it's a community of people having fun. if NO LAWS ARE BEING BROKEN, then fuck off back to your cars and go do actual work. there is zero reason to speak with anyone or stop the activity from happening. such pathetic individuals

Aw thanks, I have a lot of adblockers for video too, it must have gotten caught up in that.

Edit: That's not the full thing. They described a video where the cops were pushing people and someone came up with a snowball and smashed them in the face.

how many ppl were killed by Ice this time?

officers were pelted with snowballs while responding to a massive snowball fight

Fuck Around

Find Out

We'll put a snowball in your face. 🎶 It's the American Way 🎶

Cops are not capable of being anything other than power tripping egotistical meat heads.

Snowflakes pelted by snowflakes.
The commissioner must have an icy cold brow.
The perpetrators are snowed.

"New York City police investigating lake after officers got wet after walking into it."

made me think of this reddit story

Swarming kids are no goddamn joke, man. So - true story. And yes it's relevant.

In the U.S. Marines, doing a mock war in the Norwegian city of Trondheim with the Dutch, Germans and other allies, training in urban combat. My infantry unit was positioned in a large soccer field next to an elementary school. Keep in mind there was no actual combat, even simulated; it was mostly just practicing maneuvers and tactics. But we still looked out of place with weapons and gear, etc. It's fucking February. In Norway. Cold as balls. Snow up to our knees. Norway obviously has no snow days, so the kids were all in school.

Anyway, so Norway has this most delicious and amazing delicacy, I have no idea what it's called, but it's basically a bacon-wrapped hot dog; we just assumed it was called Candy of the Lord. As Americans we were naturally and instantly addicted. You find them at gas stations, and there just happened to be one on the other side of the school where we were camped. A few of my fellow Marines and I requested permission to go to the gas station and we set out on our way.

We made it to right about where the main entrance of the school was, and the doors opened; school was out. There were only a few kids, probably 6 or 7 years old. Lots of talking and laughing. Gawking at us as we walked by, with our guns and huge ridiculous snow suits. One precocious little bugger made shooting noises at us. We made shooting noises back.

And then someone in my group. I don't know who. God help me I don't know who...

Someone threw a snowball and hit a little girl in the leg.

And those little Norwegian children unleashed hell.

There was a shrill cry in unintelligible Norseman and the doors to the school burst open. School children flooded out like a never-ending flood of something that never ends. Screeching, smiling, sprinting - how the fuck were they sprinting?? - little bastards were slinging snowballs faster than the laws of physics should allow. It was like that movie Elf. If you can imagine riding in a fast car in a snowstorm and sticking your head out the window. Now imagine the snowflakes that are hitting your face are the size of snowballs. We couldn't fucking see. We couldn't run. We could barely breathe. Holy fuck....

We tried to return fire and threw one, maybe two half-packed, shitty snowballs that fell apart in the air, arms flailing like drunk octopi. I am from Texas. We were a unit stationed in North Carolina. We were so outmatched and out of our element, it only made them laugh harder. We were cutoff from our main forces. We tried to perform a flanking maneuver but fuck me they were fast. I think some of them were throwing rocks!

My comrades. I could see them speed waddling in their huge suits back to camp like a fucked up pair of white Teletubbies, under withering fire. Fuck tactics, fuck me, fuck the Candy of the Lord, this was survival! I was the slow one in the group. My snowboots were too big but they were the smallest size they had at Issue goddammit!! My Marines left me behind.

I tried pulling my hood over my head and keeping my head down. No longer content to pelt my defenseless body with ballistic snow, the enemy swarmed me and dragged me down, cackling like a pack of hyenas descending on a wildebeest. I tried to sling them off by spinning. I came out of one of my boots and fell. I began to scream and plead for them to stop but they neither understood nor gave a single Nordic fuck. They literally pinned me down with about five kids on each limb. It was then that I actually thought - oh shit. I'm really in trouble. My snow-mittens were ripped off and flung into trees. They started shoving snow down my suit. Have you ever had anyone drop an ice cube down your shirt?

Well now imagine someone shoveling handfuls of ice cubes down your shirt. It literally shocked the breath out of my body. Thisishowidie.jpg.gif

They left me laying like a Family Guy accident victim. Moaning and screaming in the cold. Rifle packed with snow and dirt. Boot buried some-fucking-where. They ran away laughing, jabbering in their crazy language. I lay there trying to figure out just what in the great American fuck had happened.

TL;DR - Norwegians discover way to defeat American Marines using bacon and small children.

LPT -don't ever, ever get in a snowball fight with Norwegian school kids.

TIL - there are more names for shoving snow down peoples' clothes than should be reasonably expected.

EDIT - Wow. Thanks for the GOLD and thanks for all the kind words! You guys rock. Glad I could make you laugh with my inadequacies. hahahaha. Worst snowfighters ever.

EDIT EDIT Candy of the Lord= baconpølse, and yes - it was filled with cheese! Very important detail that I left out. Sorry.

Now I miss reddit. Not enough to go back, but it's still there.

Why were they "responding to a snowball fight"? What broke law were they investigating? What even made them go there? Yes the police shouldn't of taken it to this level but also which grumpy person even called the in the first place?

Nyland Brigade ain't nothing to fuck with. Beat our asses every time they come to the party. I miss Finland.

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.

Here's the thing.

If someone calls 911 the police and EMS have to respond.

A while back in NYC there was some idiot who kept calling 911 and saying there was a murder going on at an abortion clinic.

True, i get that. My question is who called them? Not asking for doxxing information just that who ever it was is probably angry and hateful in general and should be ashamed of themselves.

Sadly the Reddit this guy commented on is not the Reddit of today. All the greats will fall in time. Only for another to take their place.

I wish we would see more of these stories here on Lemmy(but verified, someway, I don't need AI fiction)

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.

Well, they are the biggest gang in New York

You spelled genius wrong

They actually don't have to respond. It would be insane if they did, and the system simply wouldn't be able to function; the volume of calls (and for the most frivolous things) can be tremendous.

/used to work 911/dispatch

Some Gross man trained cops to have a warrior mentality.

Can't even call them snowflakes any more because they're even afraid of that

More evidence that they have too much funding.

I'm not saying we should take away all of NYPD funding, but I think a moderate approach would be to cut their funding in half every year.

Then Occupy happened, and everyone realized that all NYPD cops are bastards

Zeno for comptroller

I'd just throw rocks at the NYPD. No need for snow.

Yes, and your SO is a super model and you're an astronaut.

Wrong!

https://youtu.be/JH1vUJxn8gU

Don't know what 911 system you worked in, but NYC sends PD or EMS or Fire to every call, not matter how obviously frivolous.

Occupy happened a decade after 9/11/2001

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street

Learn some history.

Back in the day, when the Industrial Workers of the World did any action they had a squad that made sure no one threw rocks at the police. The IWW leadership knew that one cop with a bruise meant a few dozen innocent marchers with broken bones.

If starting trouble for other people makes you a 'genius' than Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Prize for Science.

Good point, I stand corrected

Thank you

Off topic rant incoming in 3

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I don't like the phrase "thank you" because it's manners, but it has a pronoun inside. And so it puts Me in a really socially awkward position. And it's a position most people wouldn't understand. If someone has second person neopronouns, then "thank you" makes a person feel bad, while having really good intentions behind it, so if you complain or correct, it's really rude and it feels bad to do so. I try to avoid manners that have pronouns inside when I'm talking to strangers, but it would be unreasonable of Me to expect the same from most people. I like "thanks". But "thank you" makes Me feel bad, AND conflicted. It's the most annoying manners.

I was watching a clip of Gene Kelly doing a dance on roller skates yesterday. Absolutely incredible dancing on wheels. In the middle of the routine he does a stupid 'Chinaman' impression for absolutely no reason.

I had a choice. Stop watching, or accept that social norms change slowly.

Who says we aren't?

If you're gonna act like you're on Reddit...

"Pix or it didn't happen."

A police horse was hit with a snowball too. His condition is...

Stable

Was that before or after NYPD started training with the IDF? I've lost track of the excessive force saga at this point. Like I know we've got that douchecanoe whose name escapes me currently who was going around training cops that it's literally a war of Cops vs the Public and any random person they interact with IS actually out to kill them, the rapid militarization of American Police, and larger Police Forces like the NYPD doing exercises with the IDF but I cannot for the life of me remember which came first.

I completely lost my train of thought and got distracted at "Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog" and forgot to finish reading that because it reminded me of this food court place in the local mall where I grew up that had something like that. They wrapped a hot dog in bacon, fried it, then covered it with chili and cheese. Terrible for you, but my Gods was it delicious.

Right wingers have a bad history with snow. See Stalingrad.

See 2004 RNC

Who says I'm acting like I'm on reddit?

If people are having a massive snowball fight in new York city, and cops show up and are concerned about people concealing rocks in the snow... There's hundreds of people there... Why not just throw a rock? Why have to hide it in a snowball?

I didn't think people on Fed were this fucking uptight.

There's a problem with "you"?

Cool thanks.

It's just not one of My preferred pronouns

As a trans ally, your post was one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read. As I have never heard someone complain about "you" before, I provided the opportunity to explain why it might be problematic. If you were sincere and not using this as a method to mock trans people you would have taken the opportunity to explain why "you" is problematic. Instead, you took a paragraph to state you did not like "Thank you" but refused to elaborate any further when asked.

I mean they have to, the officers were assaulted with projectiles of dihydrogen monoxide!

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