Several New York City police officers were injured Monday afternoon when a large crowd in Washington Square Park pelted them with snowballs during a massive, planned snowball fight following a major blizzard.
Officers responded around 4 p.m. on February 23 to a 911 call reporting disorderly conduct and multiple people climbing onto a roof or structure inside the Greenwich Village park.
Video footage shows the officers being surrounded, taunted, and repeatedly hit with hard-packed, icy snowballs as they tried to leave the scene and return to their police van.
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Multiple officers suffered lacerations to their faces from the snowballs and were taken to the hospital for treatment.
No arrests were made at the scene.
