NYPD Releases Footage of Times Square Blast
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Police have released footage from a private security camera showing a cyclist riding up to the Times Square military recruiting station where a small bomb was detonated.
The bicyclist is seen getting off the 10-speed bike at 3:40 a.m. today, and the blast occurring three minutes later. It is followed by a brief flash and a cloud of white smoke.
Police say they later found the bike in the trash.
No one was hurt in the blast.
But Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the device, though “unsophisticated,” could have caused “injury and even death.”
