Manhattan Prosecutors in NYPD Snowballer Case Make

Earlier, we reported how the NYPD shared on Thursday morning that they’d made an arrest stemming from a Monday snowballing incident, which noticed police officers get repeatedly hit with snowballs, some of them the dimensions of boulders, after they had been called out to Washington Square Park to look into allegations of unruly habits among some of those gathered for the pre-planned post-blizzard event.

27-year-old Gusmane Coulibaly was taken into custody. Not surprisingly, the NYPD famous in their announcement that he had a current prior arrest:

This morning, the NYPD arrested Gusmane Coulibaly, 27 years previous, for assaulting our officers earlier this week in Washington Square Park.

Mr. Coulibaly was beforehand arrested less than three weeks in the past for an tried theft in the transit system. pic.twitter.com/IHO2zTC4tr

— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) February 26, 2026

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Coulibaly has been the only one arrested of the 4 whose pictures had been launched Tuesday and Wednesday by the division:

NYPD releases pictures of 4 people needed for questioning after officers hit with snowballs https://t.co/hX8IzPwJFd pic.twitter.com/Qph5tKT69G

— Eyewitness News (@ABC7NY) February 25, 2026

Video of what happened prompted NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a Defund the Police proponent, to predictably decrease it as merely “kids” having a “snowball fight,” feedback he made Tuesday when he was first requested about it and then again on Wednesday, when he doubled down.

But a number of videos, including the one below, confirmed it was a entire lot more than that:

NYC (Feb. 23) — Emboldened rioters hurled snowballs at NYPD officers at Washington Square Park. pic.twitter.com/qd2qAKVSXr

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) February 24, 2026

Though NYC Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch described what happened Monday as “disgraceful” and “prison” acts that had been under investigation, and later confirmed he had been arrested and charged with assault, it has been revealed that Manhattan prosecutors won’t be pursuing assault prices against Coulibaly:

Manhattan prosecutors declined to pursue an assault charge against Gusmane Coulibaly on Thursday night time, instead charging him with misdemeanor obstructing authorities administration and a harassment violation in connection with the viral Washington Square Park snowball struggle.

Coulibaly, 27, was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on Thursday night and launched on supervised release…

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In court, prosecutors said that after reviewing the evidence, they had been unable to show that an officer suffered a bodily injury triggered instantly by Coulibaly’s conduct and therefore didn’t pursue an assault charge. They said the investigation stays ongoing.

Considering Mamdani’s downplaying of what occurred on Monday, and now this, it isn’t going to make those in the Big Apple who are fed up with the soft-on-crime insurance policies of the Manhattan District Attorney’s workplace comfortable to see Coulibaly be hit with lighter prices.

It shall be attention-grabbing to see if additional reviewing of the varied videos and angles of the incident yields clear and convincing evidence of assault among the other suspects the NYPD is wanting for. As always, keep tuned.

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