The snowstorm that shut down the Northeast did not shut down the mob.

In the streets of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s New York and in its Washington Square Park in lower Manhattan, crowds of young men assaulted police officers with snowballs.

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This might sound like harmless fun. After all, that’s the point of snowball fights; they are, or often are, simply convivial if energetic confrontations between well-meaning antagonists using weapons that disintegrate on contact. They can be outlets for boisterousness from which combatants emerge sweaty, damp from their intersection with flying white stuff, and rosy-cheeked from the bracing exercise in clear, cold air. After which there awaits a reviving mug of hot chocolate.

But what happened in New York City was not fun of this sort, much though some of the assailants guffawed and delighted in the discomfiture of the officers they attacked. These snowball scenes were not broadly amusing at all, and they were not perpetrated with goodwill. The officers were followed and surrounded by what looked like hundreds, and was certainly scores of young adults, some of them masked, who were evidently out to get them.

In the video, one sees male and........

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