An 18-year-old Manhattan man was charged with harassment and obstruction Wednesday in the cowardly snowball-pelting attack on NYPD cops at Washington Square Park, police said.
Eric Wilson, Jr., who turned himself in to cops, is the second frosty fiend charged in the Feb. 23 caught-on-video attack on New York’s Finest, which sent two officers to the hospital with minor injuries.
According to police, Wilson, “with intent to intent to annoy and harass, threw a snowball at the uniformed officer, obstructing his duties.”
Hundreds of winter revelers were hurling snowballs when cops were called to the park around 4 p.m. — only to be come the target of the icy projectiles, video footage from the scene shows.
Gusmane Coulibaly, a 27-year-old self-proclaimed influencer who goes by the name “Diaperman” online, was the first thug busted in the incident, but caught a break when Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg declined to prosecute on the most serious charge of assault.
That left Coulibaly — who is also charged in an unrelated attempted robbery case — facing slap-on-the-wrist charges of harassment and obstruction of governmental administration in the snowball incident, the same charges now lodged against Wilson by cops on Wednesday. --->READ MORE HERE
Assaults against cops are snowballing.
Attacks against NYPD officers are up 3% in the first two months of the Mamdani administration when compared to the same period last year – and cops are fuming that his insulting attitude toward police is putting targets on their badges.
There have been 253 assaults on NYPD officers so far this year, counting the two cops pelted by snowballs and ice in Washington Square Park on Monday, according to NYPD data.
“The criminals and even some people who are sitting on the fence take their cues from the politicians and the prosecutors,” said Joseph Giacalone, a retired NYPD sergeant and an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
“They can say ‘I assaulted a cop and [Manhattan District Attorney] Alvin Bragg won’t prosecute me,'” he said. “‘I got the mayor advocating for me.’ So this is this is a golden opportunity. It’s going to be a long, hot summer is my prediction.”
There were no arrests during the incident in the famed Greenwich Village park.
Mamdani then repeatedly shrugged off the melee as a “snowball fight” and kids fooling around — but experts, cops and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch clapped back.
“A snowball fight is when you throw a snowball at me and I throw a snowball at you,” said Chris Herrmann, a retired NYPD officer and adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
“It’s not a snowball fight. It’s cops being attacked with snowballs.”
Some of the snowballs were the size of boulders, and many of the marauders were grown men, video shows.
Gusmane Coulibaly, 27, was eventually arrested and charged with felony assault, but Bragg threw out the assault charge. He was charged with harassment and obstruction of governmental administration — a lowly violation and misdemeanor, respectively. --->READ MORE HERE
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