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At approximately 12:38 PM, a counter protester identified as Amir Balat, an 18-year-old man, lit and threw an ignited device toward the protest area, landing in the crosswalk of East 87th Street and East End Avenue. Witnesses reported flames and smoke as the device traveled through the air before it struck a barrier and extinguished itself a few feet from police officers. Balat then ran southbound on East End Avenue toward 86th Street and obtained a second device from a man tentatively identified as Ebrahim Nick, 19 years old. Balat lit the second device and began running with it, then dropped the device on the west side of East End Avenue between East 86th and East 87th Streets.
Officers immediately secured the area and took both men into custody. The incident was captured on NYPD Argus camera. The bomb squad responded and examined the devices. Based on preliminary examination and x-ray imaging, the devices were a bit smaller than a football and appeared to be a jar wrapped in black tape, with nuts, bolts, and screws along with a hobby fuse that could be lit. At this time, we do not yet know whether the devices were