{"id":227049,"date":"2026-10-10T01:48:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/abolish-ice-mamdani-aoc-and-other-democrats-urge-action-after-new-york-shooting-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T01:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:48:58","slug":"abolish-ice-mamdani-aoc-and-other-democrats-urge-action-after-new-york-shooting-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/abolish-ice-mamdani-aoc-and-other-democrats-urge-action-after-new-york-shooting-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Abolish ICE\u2019: Mamdani, AOC and other Democrats urge action after New York shooting – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Immigration officer shot man in car where five-year-old child was sitting, sparking fierce protests
Leading New York Democrats expressed anger and demanded curbs on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE<\/a>) violence after a federal officer shot a man driving a car in which his five-year-old son was sitting, sparking fierce protests<\/a>.
At least seven shots were reportedly fired and the man was hit in the neck late on Thursday afternoon as children were coming home from school in the busy Marble Hill neighborhood of New York<\/a> City. Marble Hill is considered part of Manhattan, but is physically located in the Bronx.
Federal authorities on Friday morning identified Oscar Belgal as the man shot, saying he was undocumented, from the Dominican Republic and had a felony record and gang affiliations.
Belgal was later booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn, federal lockup, which is newly being used to detain immigrants, according to his attorneys and a US prosecutor who spoke during a hearing on Friday afternoon.
He still has a \u201cbullet in his body\u201d and has not been able to communicate with his family, his attorneys said during the hearing.
ICE took Belgal on Thursday from a New York hospital into New Jersey. He reportedly spent the night inside the Elizabeth Contract Detention Facility, a privately run ICE facility, before being brought back into New York and being booked into MDC Brooklyn.
Meanwhile, Belgal was able to have only one phone call with lawyers on Friday, his attorney Paige Austin with Make the Road New York said.
A New York federal judge on early Friday morning ordered ICE to keep Belgal in the area, after his attorneys filed emergency motions requesting his release.
The justice department is likely to argue that Belgal\u2019s transfer into New Jersey took place before the judge\u2019s order, making the order requiring ICE to keep him in the area moot. And Belgal\u2019s attorneys have indicated that they will continue challenging his detention.
The Justice Department will likely argue that Bergal\u2019s transfer into New Jersey took place before the New York judge\u2019s order, which would make the judge\u2019s order requiring ICE to keep him in the area moot. Bergal\u2019s attorneys will continue to challenge his detention.
Marcos Charles, a senior \u200cICE official, said Belgal refused \u200bto exit his car when approached by \u200cfederal officers who were trying to arrest him, and then accelerated, \u200cstruck two ICE vehicles and drove towards other officers. An ICE officer then shot Belgal and Charles said the wound was \u201csuperficial\u201d.
Footage showed a man in a high-visibility construction vest, possibly with a badge on a lanyard, carrying an assault-style rifle and standing close to Belgal, who is sat on the street, while another officer appears to hold a hand to his neck and shoulder area.
New York police officers in uniform shortly afterwards carry the man to an unmarked car and lay him in the back seat, handcuffed behind his back.
But Kathy Hochul, New York\u2019s governor, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York congresswoman, and Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, the city\u2019s mayor \u2013 all of whom are Democrats \u2013 led strong condemnation of ICE\u2019s conduct.
Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic New York candidate, rushed to the protests and was knocked over in the chaos as local police and demonstrators clashed.
The wounded man was conscious and hospitalized, authorities said<\/a>.
A joint statement from Bronx and Manhattan borough presidents Vanessa L Gibson and Brad Hoylman-Sigal, respectively, said their constituents \u201cstand united in outrage\u201d over Belgal\u2019s shooting.
\u201cThe frustration, pain, anger and trauma stoked by this incident extends far beyond an individual,\u201d the statement said.
Mamdani called the incident \u201cunconscionable\u201d and said on Thursday night that ICE, part of<\/a> the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), had \u201cwhisked him away\u201d from the New York-Presbyterian Allen hospital in upper Manhattan.
A similar incident occurred<\/a> in Texas last month after a man was shot by an ICE officer in Austin and despite a bullet lodged<\/a> in his back was taken by the federal authorities from a local hospital to ICE detention about 140 miles away.
Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani demanded ICE be abolished.
Both Hochul and Mamdani spoke to Donald Trump and Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, by phone on Thursday night.
\u201cI have been on \u200bthe phone with President Trump and Secretary Mullin negotiating \u200cthe release of the man ICE agents \u200cshot. Those negotiations were unsuccessful,\u201d Mamdani told a press conference. He demanded from the Trump \u200cadministration that ICE stop its enforcement actions in New York City. \u201cICE is rotten to its core,\u201d he said.
ICE has been stepping up<\/a> arrests all year despite withdrawing massed militarized ranks from Minneapolis in January and adopting<\/a> a more covert approach to enforcement<\/a>.
Both Hochul and Mamdani demanded that ICE cease enforcement operations in New York and the governor said she expressed outrage to the Trump administration on behalf of all New Yorkers. <\/strong>Hochul added that the incident could easily have ended in tragedy.
\u201cNo child should ever have to experience the terror of gunfire,\u201d she said. The child was being looked after by his family on Friday.
The streets where the shooting and protests took place were calm on Friday morning but many residents remained shocked and angry.
\u201cHere\u2019s an innocent child that was caught in the crossfire,\u201d said Calvin Hayden, a south Bronx native. \u201cThat child could have been killed.\u201d Hayden heard about the shooting the night before and said he was immediately disturbed. He came to Marble Hill, the northernmost part of Manhattan, to see the aftermath.
\u201cI don\u2019t believe ICE has any reason or right to be in New York City,\u201d he said, adding he thought New York was already equipped on its own to handle immigration disputes without ICE presence.
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of individuals who are not committing crimes and they just want to make a better life for themselves,\u201d he said.
Some drivers on 225th Street yelled anti-ICE sentiments as they drove past the scene.
Mullin said on Friday morning that the ICE officers involved in the shooting did not know there was a child in the vehicle and defended the agency\u2019s actions. But he pointed out that Belgal would have obviously known the child was in his car when he drove it at officers. The exact sequence of events leading up to the shooting have not yet become clear.
Mullin said that Hochul had asked the DHS for a pause on enforcement in New York.
\u201cNo, we are not putting a pause on enforcement,\u201d he said.
Mullin criticized New York\u2019s \u201csanctuary\u201d policies<\/a>, \u200bwhich restrict how much city agencies and police cooperate with immigration authoritie.
Belgal, 28, has prior convictions, was serving five years of probation for felony grand larceny and was also arrested on drug charges in 2025, a case that is still pending, according to the New York police department.
\u201cWhat happened today was an outrage,\u201d Mamdani said late on Thursday, adding: \u201cWhen ICE agents opened fire, a five-year-old child \u2013 a five-year-old child! \u2013 was in the back seat of that car. Thank God that child is physically unharmed.\u201d
Witnesses told local media they heard the child yelling at the officers after the shooting. At least 20 people have been shot<\/a> by federal immigration agents under the second Trump administration, as well as a rise in deaths in detention.
\u201cICE is a rogue, lawless and paramilitary surveillance agency. It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement.
The representative also condemned the retail company Target for allowing federal enforcement teams to use its parking lots as staging areas from which to launch arrest operations.
Protesters held signs saying:\u201cJail all killer ICE agents\u201d and \u201cLeave our neighbors alone.\u201d
\u201cICE, get the fuck out of our neighborhood,\u201d shouted Gibson, the Bronx borough president. \u201cI\u2019m angry that we have to be here \u2026 We are a working-class community. We don\u2019t deserve this type of treatment from the White House.\u201d She encouraged the crowd to get involved in opposing ICE, saying: \u201cThere are more of us than there are of them. I want this to be a moment that we turn into a movement.\u201d
Protesters gathered at the hospital where Belgal was taken. The police set up barricades and protesters quickly clashed with officers in a chaotic scene.
Demonstrators banged drums and shouted: \u201cShut it down,\u201d and \u201cICE out!\u201d as cars driving by honked in support.
Standing outside the hospital, Murad Awawdeh, the president of the New York Immigration Coalition, said he wanted to see an independent investigation into the shooting led by New York officials.
\u201cThe pain that you\u2019re witnessing is people who are witnessing their neighbors, their family members, their friends being ripped away,\u201d he said.
ICE has arrested more than 19,500 people in New York and nearly 18,000 in New Jersey during the second Trump administration, mostly Latin American immigrant men without criminal histories, Gothamist reported<\/a> earlier this week using government data, adding that those totals were more than double the number of such arrests in the last 18 months of the Biden administration.
Lex McMenamin and Joanna Walters contributed reporting<\/em><\/p>\n

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