Hero NYPD officers honored for foiling alleged ISIS-inspired terror plot near Gracie Mansion

Two NYPD officers are being honored by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani aft jumping into enactment to thwart an alleged ISIS-inspired panic onslaught extracurricular Gracie Mansion implicit the weekend. 

NYPD Chief Aaron Edwards and Sgt. Luis Navarro received precocious praise from Mamdani and New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch astatine a property league connected Monday, conscionable days aft some men enactment their lives connected the enactment to halt a perchance catastrophic coercion onslaught aft 2 explosive devices were dropped astatine a protestation connected Saturday. 

Edwards reportedly jumped implicit a obstruction and tackled Emir Balat, 18, to the crushed aft helium allegedly hurled an improvised explosive instrumentality astatine a radical of protesters and was astir to propulsion a 2nd batch handed to him by Ibrahim Kayumi, 19.

As the chaos unfolded, Navarro ran towards a 2nd improvised explosive instrumentality arsenic it was lit and smoking aft allegedly being dropped connected the crushed by Balat, "without hesitation and without respect for [his] ain safety," Tisch said.

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New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a quality league alongside NYPD Chief Aaron Edwards and Sergeant Luis Navarro astatine Gracie Mansion, Monday, March 9, 2026, successful New York.  (Angelina Katsanis/AP Photo)

Mamdani thanked some men for their bravery aft besides recognizing them successful a backstage meeting. 

"That is courage, that is selflessness, and I americium profoundly grateful to some of them and to each subordinate of the NYPD who works each azygous time to support New Yorkers safe," Mamdani said.

Edwards was precocious promoted to borough main of Manhattan, northbound successful December of past twelvemonth aft serving astir 23 years arsenic an NYPD officer, according to the New York Post.

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Emir Balat flees aft throwing a homemade explosive instrumentality towards constabulary arsenic NYPD Chief Aaron Edwards and Sgt. Luis Navarro instrumentality enactment during a protestation successful beforehand of Gracie Mansion, New York politician Zohran Mamdani's authoritative residence, successful New York connected March 7, 2026.   (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP via Getty Images)

Edwards was inspired to go an serviceman aft the Sept. 11, 2001 violent attacks connected New York City. 

"I was a assemblage pupil backmost successful September 2001," the caller commanding serviceman of the NYPD’s Patrol Borough Manhattan North told the Post past year. "I saw what happened, and I took 1 of the archetypal tests" for the academy.

"I saw it, I felt it. When everyone was moving retired [of the Twin Towers], we had our constabulary officers and the different first-responders moving in. I thought that was selfless heroism. It conscionable drew maine to the profession," Edwards said. "Since I started, I fell successful emotion with policing."

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New York Police commissioner Jessica Tisch speaks during a quality league with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani astatine Gracie Mansion, Monday, March 9, 2026, successful New York.  (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

On Monday, Tisch said the officer’s actions connected Saturday followed the aforesaid taxable of his inspiration to articulation the department. 

"We saw that aforesaid tone carried guardant successful the mode that helium responded," Tisch said, according to the New York Daily News.

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Additionally, Navarro has reportedly been connected the unit for 11 years and joined the NYPD aft a person encouraged him to instrumentality the exam. Like Edwards, helium was promoted to his existent fertile successful December. 

Both Balat and Kayumi are facing national coercion charges stemming from the alleged attack. 

The NYPD did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.