{"id":115909,"date":"2026-01-29T02:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/115909\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T02:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:17:07","slug":"former-mayors-son-dante-de-blasio-among-dozens-arrested-at-manhattan-anti-ice-hotel-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/115909\/","title":{"rendered":"Former mayor’s son Dante de Blasio among dozens arrested at Manhattan anti-ICE hotel protest"},"content":{"rendered":"

The son of former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Dante de Blasio, was among dozens of protesters arrested for occupying a Manhattan hotel<\/a> that activists accused of housing federal immigration agents, law enforcement sources told the Daily News.<\/p>\n

Dante, 29, was charged with disorderly conduct after he refused to obey NYPD orders to vacate the lobby of the Hilton Garden Inn Tribeca<\/a> on Sixth Ave. near West Broadway around 6 p.m. Tuesday, sources said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was arrested while protesting the deployment of ICE agents to New York City,\u201d the former mayor\u2019s son told The News. \u201c ICE is operating like a rogue, authoritarian agency, snatching people, including many U.S. citizens, off the streets with impunity.<\/p>\n

\u201cICE\u2019s violent and authoritarian tactics are un-American. Clamping down on protests and murdering citizens for the crime of speaking out and protesting is a direct contradiction of the founding principles of our country. ICE has no place in New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n

The protesters held signs that read \u201cHilton stop housing ICE\u201d and \u201cHilton don\u2019t let ICE stay\u201d as they rallied inside the lobby for more than 45 minutes, decrying the Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdowns in Minneapolis<\/a> \u2014 where agents fatally shot two U.S. citizens this month<\/a>,\u2014 and other communities.<\/p>\n

\"Anti-ICEAnti-ICE protesters occupy the Hilton Garden Inn on Sixth Avenue in Tribeca, Manhattan, holding signs that call for the hotel to stop housing federal immigration enforcement agents on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026, in New York City, United States. (Photo by Selcuk Acar\/Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

In all, police took 66 people into custody at the protest, with all but two of those arrested being charged with criminal trespassing and disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of the cops on duty that night were the children of immigrants or immigrants themselves. I believe that they too understood the stakes of the present crisis,\u201d Dante de Blasio said.<\/p>\n

The remaining two protesters were charged with obstruction of government administration for trying to prevent cops from pulling protesters out of the lobby. They were given desk appearance tickets ordering them to court to answer the charges in a few weeks, an NYPD spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n

An activist with Sunrise Movement NYC said protest organizers zeroed in on the Tribeca Hilton after receiving multiple tips the hotel was hosting ICE agents.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were following the lead of our friends in Minneapolis who have been dealing with Hiltons there housing ICE agents,\u201d said 25-year-old Carly Shaffer. \u201cThey\u2019ve been leading a pretty aggressive campaign to get Hilton to stop housing ICE agents. If these agents don\u2019t have a place to sleep, they can\u2019t be in our neighborhoods terrorizing them.\u201d<\/p>\n

A law enforcement source, however, told The News on Wednesday that no ICE agents were staying at the hotel Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

A City Hall spokesman said Mayor Mamdani praised the NYPD \u2014 and the protesters.<\/p>\n

\u201cMayor Mamdani commends the protesters who exercised their right to protest against ICE today,\u201d said spokeswoman Dora Pekec.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs he has said, ICE is a rogue agency that has repeatedly carried out cruel, inhumane and lawless raids and arrests of American citizens. The mayor is also pleased with the NYPD\u2019s response to the protest and that today\u2019s demonstration concluded without violence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The son of former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Dante de Blasio, was among dozens of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-115909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}