Armed Terrorist Detonated Explosive Device Outside Federal Plaza in NYC – Suspect in Custody

By Pamela Geller - on July 20, 2026

More Mamdani magic.

There was just an explosion outside the federal building in NYC and federal immigration agents rushed out with the FBI, guns drawn.

More of the poison fruit of Democrat incitment top violence.

JUST IN: Explosive Device Detonated Outside Federal Plaza in NYC—Suspect in Custody

Mamdani's New York City is falling apart. pic.twitter.com/o5iVkGwVUE

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 20, 2026

🚨 BREAKING: There was just an EXPLOSION outside the federal building in NYC and federal immigration agents rushed out with the FBI, guns drawn

Suspect IN CUSTODY.

Pray for our federal law enforcement, they face danger EVERY SINGLE DAY 🙏🏻🇺🇸pic.twitter.com/rySIW8mcje

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 20, 2026

Armed loon sets off ‘incendiary device’ outside NYC fed HQ as terrorism task force probes anti-ICE attack

By Joe Marino and Patrick Reilly, NY Post, July 20, 2026:

The unidentified man started a fire outside of 26 Federal Plaza, ignited fireworks and threatened passersby with airsoft rifles around 8:30 a.m., police and sources said.

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An armed maniac lit an “incendiary device” outside a federal building in lower Manhattan early Monday in an anti-ICE attack being investigated by the terrorism task force, according to officials and sources.

The unidentified man started a fire outside of 26 Federal Plaza, ignited fireworks and threatened passersby with airsoft rifles around 8:30 a.m., police and sources said.

Suspect being taken into custody by police officers.

Several police officers surround a person on the ground after an “incendiary device” was lit outside a federal building in lower Manhattan.

Federal police took the perpetrator into custody at the scene — and found a cart with an anti-ICE message on it, sources said, with immigration agents among those who responded.

“This morning an individual deployed an incendiary device outside of 26 Federal Plaza,” the FBI confirmed to Fox News in a statement.

The Jacob K. Javits Federal Office Building is home to New York’s ICE field office in Manhattan as well as offices for the US Department of Homeland Security, immigration court and other federal agencies.

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