If this city was like it used to be, like it’s supposed to be, then the fracas that erupted in Washington Square Park last week would have been nothing more than the simple snowball fight that Mayor Mamdani said it was.

Because if what happened in Washington Square Park had been a simple snowball fight like Mamdani said it was, then the police officers who were being pelted with snow and ice would have been tossing snowballs back, and having fun.

“This was not just a ‘snowball fight,’” Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry said in a statement. “This was an assault — by adults throwing chunks of ice and rocks — that landed two police officers in the hospital with head and face injuries.”

Police arrested one of four snowball bandits caught on camera........

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