Dramatic new video shows moment NYPD tackles ISIS-inspired Gracie Mansion bombing suspect
NY Post
Nail-biting new video shows NYPD cops tackle and arrest Islamic extremist Emir Balat moments after he hurled an improvised explosive device outside Gracie Mansion.
In the chaotic footage, the 18-year-old homegrown terror suspect is seen sprinting down a city street on March 7, attempting to evade capture as officers can be heard screaming, “What is that? Bomb! Bomb!”
Within seconds, 8-year NYPD veteran Grant Pulgarin takes him down with a perfectly executed form tackle, as officers immediately join in the dogpile to control the crowd and ensure he was taken into custody without incident.
Balat and his brother-in-arms Ibraham Kayumi, 19, lobbed the dangerous homemade incendiary devices during an anti-Muslim protest outside the residence of Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch identified the devices as so-called “Mother of Satan” bombs — crude but deadly munitions made of sports drink bottles filled with triacetone triperoxide, a highly unstable explosive chemical, and packed with bolts, nuts and screws to inflict maximum damage.
The devices failed to detonate, but Tisch said they were very much capable of causing “serious injury and death.”
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