Socialist groups and online critics demand NYPD chief resign following ICE shooting

Online critics and political allies of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani are demanding that Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch be removed from her post, the New York Post and the Daily Mail reported. The calls follow a shooting by federal immigration officers in the Bronx last week. On Monday, Mayor Mamdani ordered the New York Police Department to conduct its first review of use-of-force policies in ten years, according to UPI. [1][5][6]

The controversy follows an incident on Thursday in the Marble Hill neighborhood where federal officers shot a suspected criminal migrant, the New York Post and the Washington Examiner reported. As FTMQ News reported earlier, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers shot 28-year-old Oscar Belgal in the neck during a targeted operation after officers stated he accelerated his car toward their vehicles. Online critics accused the police department of complying with federal agents during the operation, according to the New York Post. [1][3][9][10]

Mayor Mamdani criticized the plainclothes officer who opened fire, comparing the agent to a mass shooter during an appearance on MS Now, the New York Daily News and the Washington Examiner reported. The mayor stated that federal immigration enforcement viewed the law as a suggestion during the operation, according to the Washington Examiner. [2][3][4]

Democratic Socialists in New York City have demanded that Mayor Mamdani fire Commissioner Tisch, the Daily Mail reported. Calls for her resignation began shortly after the incident, as FTMQ News reported earlier when Democratic socialist congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier criticized local police for not arresting the federal agent involved in the shooting. [6][9][10]