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Everyone loves a good snowball fight, so long as ice balls are kept purely off-limits. Everyone, that is, except the NYPD, who are attempting to prosecute four teens in the Bronx for accidentally hitting an undercover traffic cop with a snowball. They’re facing up to a year in prison. For a snowball.

Four Bronx buddies are facing a year in jail for criminal possession of a weapon – a snowball that hit an off-duty transit cop.

The young men say they were horsing around in the late February storm when an errant snowball smacked Officer Adonis Ramirez in the leg.

The group says Ramirez was the one who behaved badly – failing to identify himself as a cop when he pulled out a gun and ordered them to the ground.

“He screamed, ‘You don’t know who I am,’” said Manuel Rondon, 18, a student at Monroe College.

“He pulled out the gun and aimed it at me when he was 3 feet away. I thought he was going to kill me.”

Four Bronx buddies facing year in jail after ‘hitting’ off-duty transit cop – with a snowball! [New York Daily News]

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