New York City Mayor Mamdani to Launch Investigation into ICE Shooting

Mamdani: "ICE enforcement threatens the safety of New Yorkers"

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the city would launch its own investigation into an incident in which a man was wounded by gunfire from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent. Mayor Mamdani directly asked U.S. President Donald Trump to halt ICE enforcement operations in New York City, but the Trump Administration has defended the shooting, escalating tensions between the two sides.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. New York City Hall website

According to Bloomberg on October 11 local time, Mamdani said in an interview with MS NOW that, regarding the ICE shooting on October 8 in the Marble Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York, the city would “review the full 24 hours before and after the incident, together with the New York City Police Department (NYPD).”

The investigation will cover not only the circumstances of the ICE agent’s shooting but also the NYPD’s response at the scene, the protests that followed the shooting, and how ICE used a privately owned parking lot as a base for its enforcement operation. Mamdani said the city would also consider steps the city government could take to ensure the safety of New Yorkers.

Earlier, on October 8, the day of the shooting, Mayor Mamdani spoke by phone with President Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin for about two hours, calling for the injured man’s release, but the parties failed to reach an agreement.

In the interview that day, he also criticized ICE enforcement operations, saying they were “making the city more dangerous.” Mayor Mamdani has called on President Trump to halt all ICE enforcement activities in New York City.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul also spoke with President Trump and Secretary Mullin, calling for ICE enforcement operations to be halted and for the release of body-camera footage recorded by agents at the scene.

Secretary Mullin, however, said on Fox News Sunday that day that he would “absolutely release” the body-camera footage once investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a division of the Department of Homeland Security, were complete.

The incident occurred on the afternoon of October 8 in Marble Hill, in northern Manhattan, New York, as ICE agents were arresting Oscar Belgal, 28, a man from the Dominican Republic.

According to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, an ICE agent fired at least seven shots, and Belgal was shot in the neck. A 5-year-old child was in the back seat of the vehicle at the time but was not injured.

Following the shooting, protests condemning what demonstrators called excessive ICE enforcement took place in New York, and clashes also broke out between some protesters and police.

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