Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has revealed that the man shot by an ICE agent in New York City on Thursday has been taken out of the state, but he wouldn’t say where.
During a contentious news conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Mullin called the detainee, identified as Oscar Belgal, a “thug,” and said that because of the attention on the case, DHS has been forced to move him to a more secure facility “outside of New York.”
“He isn’t in the state of New York,” Mullin told reporters. “We wanted to make sure he was in a highly secured facility because of the threat he has and his history of evading police.”
“Where is he?” a reporter asked.
Mullin replied, “That I won’t release.”
Belgal was shot in the neck as ICE agents surrounded a car in the Marble Hill section of Manhattan. He was hospitalized and reportedly remained conscious. Belgal’s 5-year-old son was also in the vehicle at the time of the shooting but was not believed to have been physically harmed.
Mullin said the ICE agents were not aware a child was in the car.
On Thursday night, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani slammed ICE, saying, “There is no explanation for these tactics. There is no explanation for federal officers firing this many rounds into a car that has a five-year-old in the car.”
“There is no explanation. We are standing here so close to the site of where this actually took place. And look at how many people live right here. This is a residential neighborhood. We are right here by a subway. And the pretext of ICE is, in their words, ‘to keep this country safe,’ ” Mamdani said.
“How is it keeping everyone safe to have, as you just heard from the police commissioner, individuals wearing construction vests in masks with long guns? Residents have no idea if these are law enforcement agents or if they are simply attacking someone on the street. And when it comes to ICE, it begs the question, what’s the difference? There is no explanation for this.”
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