The New York Police Department on Thursday announced the arrest of a 27-year-old man accused of striking officers with snow and ice during a snowball fight in Washington Square Park earlier this week.

What started as a joyous snowball fight Monday in New York City morphed into a political tempest after residents began pelting police officers with snow and ice.

Cops were responding to 911 calls of a large disorderly crowd throwing snowballs from the top of the park’s bathroom and jumping off the roof about 4:15 p.m. Monday, a police spokesman said.