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Mayor Mamdani condemns ICE officers as rogue agents following New York shooting

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has demanded an end to federal immigration operations in the city after agents shot a man in a car with a child.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement of acting as a rogue federal agency after an officer shot 28-year-old Oscar Belgal in Manhattan, Fox News and msnbc.com reported. Fox News noted that the shooting occurred while Belgal's five-year-old son was inside the vehicle. The Guardian placed the location of the shooting in the Manhattan enclave of Marble Hill, while the New York Post described Belgal as a 28-year-old from the Dominican Republic. [1][4][6][7]

Speaking in a televised interview with MS NOW host Jacob Soboroff, Mamdani said plainclothes ICE agents looked more like mass shooters than law enforcement officers, according to Fox News, the New York Daily News, and the Guardian. Fox News reported that Mamdani accused ICE agents of treating the law as merely a suggestion and questioned if residents could distinguish them from dangerous attackers. According to msnbc.com, the mayor demanded during a nearly two-hour phone call with President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin that federal authorities end ICE operations in the city. [1][2][4][7]

Attorneys for Belgal told the New York Post that he is being held in solitary confinement at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn with a bullet still lodged in his neck, leaving him unable to eat. Meanwhile, the Daily Mail reported that New York City's Democratic Socialists are calling on Mayor Mamdani to fire Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch following the incident. [5][6]

The mass deportation campaign and deployment of ICE agents in New York City has been a central issue during the second presidency of Donald Trump. Hundreds of anti-ICE protesters have been arrested in the city by the New York City Police Department and its Strategic Response Group. As FTMQ News reported earlier, Mamdani had previously held unsuccessful phone negotiations with President Trump and Secretary Mullin to demand the removal of federal immigration agents from the city. [12][13]

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In short

  • Mayor Zohran Mamdani accused ICE of being a rogue agency after an officer shot 28-year-old Oscar Belgal.
  • A five-year-old child was inside the vehicle when federal agents opened fire in Marble Hill.
  • Mayor Mamdani requested that President Donald Trump stop ICE operations in New York City.
  • Oscar Belgal is being held in solitary confinement at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

Sources

Every paragraph above points to the numbered items it rests on. Read the originals here.

  1. [1]Mamdani calls ICE a 'rogue' agency after NYC shooting, claims agents view law as 'merely a suggestion'Fox News, 1h ago (the report this story comes from)
  2. [2]ICE agents looked more like 'mass shooters' than law enforcement in NYC shooting: MamdaniNew York Daily News, 21h ago
  3. [3]Mamdani’s new socialist outrage means more woe for NYC small businessesNew York Post, 18h ago
  4. [4]Mamdani tells Trump and Mullin to end ICE’s ‘terror’ in NYC after shootingmsnbc.com, 2h ago
  5. [5]Democratic Socialists revolt over ICE shooting in NYC, demand Mamdani fire police commissionerDaily Mail, 14h ago
  6. [6]NYC illegal migrant thug shot by ICE still has bullet lodged in neck, can’t eat, lawyers say: ‘Unimaginable nightmare’New York Post, 2h ago
  7. [7]Mamdani says ICE agents who shot man in New York looked like ‘mass shooters’The Guardian, 5h ago
  8. [8]Mamdani tells Trump and Mullin to end ICE’s ‘terror’ in NYC after shootingMS NOW, 2h ago
  9. [9]Mamdani Says New York Will Investigate ICE Shooting in the CityBloomberg.com, 23h ago
  10. [10]NYC ICE Shooting: Latest on Oscar Belgal's condition, Mamdani condemns ICE tacticsFOX 5 New York, 3h ago
  11. [11]Mamdani Condemns ICE Shooting in NYC and Israel’s Genocide, but Faces Criticism from the LeftInternational Viewpoint, 1d ago

Background

  1. [12]ICE and New York City during the second Trump presidency on Wikipedia
  2. [13]Mamdani fails to secure release of man shot by ICE officers FTMQ News, 3d ago
  3. [14]DSA candidate criticizes NYPD and ICE over Bronx shooting incident FTMQ News, 1d ago

Our newsroom writes these reports with the help of software, from the 14 sources listed and nothing else, and checks them against those sources. Facts can still be wrong or move on; the originals are the record. Spotted a mistake? Write to daniel@monsterkong.com.

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