“The NYPD Bomb Squad has conducted a preliminary analysis of a device that was ignited and deployed at a protest yesterday and has determined that it is not a hoax device or a smoke bomb,” Tisch said in a statement posted on social media. “It is, in fact, an improvised explosive device that could have caused serious injury or death.” NYPD INVESTIGATES SUSPICIOUS DEVICES AT ANTI-ISLAM PROTEST BRAWL The incident that took place on Saturday near Gracie Mansion, the official residence of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, where a small anti-Islam protest had gathered and was met by a...