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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in New York City’s Times Square refused to stand aside to allow police to respond to a report of a potential bomb at a demonstration on Saturday, making an already dangerous situation even worse. The incident arose about 4 p.m. in Manhattan when an Uber driver reported finding what appeared to be a grenade in the back seat of his vehicle after dropping off a passenger in the area where the protesters were marching. Fortunately, the NYPD bomb squad later determined the grenade was a fake — a novelty item rather than a live explosive, WABC-TV reported. But what occ…

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