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interesting this:
Hinds told The Post that cops had been grilling him for hours about the incident — and were at one point, implying that it was their fault — even though he repeatedly claimed to not have any fireworks.
“It’s ridiculous. They’ve been asking me questions for two hours,” he said. “They want us to admit that we were playing with fireworks, but we really weren’t. We didn’t have anything on us explosive at all. But I know how it goes. If it was just us f–king around with fireworks, it would be a lot easier for them. But it’s not. And that’s actually really scary. Why would we do that?!”

I'm still wondering how somebody trying to make their own firecrackers made something powerful enough to blow a guy's foot off.
And then they have this conflicting statement:
Officials said that whoever constructed the phony pyrotechnic was well-versed in how explosives work.
“Clearly, I would say this is someone that had knowledge of chemistry, but you don’t have to be anything more than good with computers to get enough knowledge of chemistry to be able to create some of this type of material from readily available materials, unfortunately,” Torre said.
I suppose it's possible that someone went to a lot of trouble to make homemade firecrackers (which they either knew a lot about explosives or they just read it on the internet), but didn't think to bring a lighter and also didn't wait for a dry night, and then gave up and left them there, inside a paper bag.

agree.

What we’ve seen so far does not pass the smell test. They are now playing down the damage to the victims foot. From photo it was clearly hanging by a thread. I read elsewhere something about the leg at the knee was protruding. If so, very strong explosives were used.

Have read terrorists at times use “Mother of Satan” explosives. Also called TATP. They are notorious for blowing up in manufacture of the chemicals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetone_peroxide

Big bang, little heat, easily detonated explosive.