Selbstgemachter Sprengstoff, der während der Proteste in die Nähe des Hauses des New Yorker Bürgermeisters geschleudert wurde, hätte zu „schweren Verletzungen oder zum Tod“ führen können, sagt die Polizei

A fire cracker?

This is relevant to r/geopolitics, but only through information buried or left out of the article you posted.

The explosive device was thrown at the anti-Iran protestors by a third party.

So it’s potentially an asymmetric attack by Iran or an Iranian proxy.

[Although heavily slanted in the opposite direction, this link adds context excluded from the CNN article.](https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/03/08/checking-in-on-pravda-and-it-is-worse-than-you-can-imagine-n3812660) Specifically, this article clarifies that the protestors were the target, not Mamdani like CNN implies.