{"id":219501,"date":"2026-05-04T17:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/219501\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:41:13","slug":"mamdani-condemns-ice-operation-after-nyc-hospital-protest-but-denies-nypd-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/219501\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani condemns ICE operation after NYC hospital protest — but denies NYPD ‘collaboration’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday condemned a federal immigration enforcement operation after an anti-ICE mob violently protested outside a Brooklyn hospital<\/a> over the weekend \u2014 but denied accusations that the NYPD coordinated with the feds.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been very clear about my views on ICE raids as a whole. I think that they are cruel. I think that they are inhumane. I think that they do not serve any interest of public safety,\u201d Mamdani said at an unrelated Bronx press conference.<\/p>\n

Police arrested nine people after around 200 protesters gathered outside Wyckoff Hospital on Saturday night in support of Nigerian national Chidozie Wilson Okeke<\/a>, who was brought there by ICE agents who\u2019d taken him into custody. He has previous arrests for assault and criminal drug possession, sources said.<\/p>\n

Mayor Mamdani denied an operational coordination between ICE and the NYPD. James Messerschmidt for the NY Post<\/p>\n

Federal agents stand over Chidozie WIlson Okeke, an illegal Nigerian migrant with two busts under his belt.
\n Dakota Santiago\/FNTV<\/p>\n

The mayor said a video showing a police officer throwing a protester to the ground during the mayhem was \u201cincredibly disturbing\u201d and was under investigation.<\/p>\n

But Mamdani denied claims from lefty local pols that there had been operational coordination between ICE and the NYPD, after police officers responded to the protest.<\/p>\n

A protester is pushed into a car by police after anti-ICE protests outside Wyckoff Hospital in Brooklyn on Sunday, May 3, 2026. Dakota Santiago\/FNTV<\/p>\n

Anti-ICE protesters clash with police outside the Wyckoff Hospital on May 3, 2026. Dakota Santiago\/FNTV<\/p>\n

\u201cRather, they were responding to 911 calls regarding the protest outside of the hospital. And as I\u2019ve made very clear that our laws leave nothing, no room for interpretation about the fact that our NYPD will not participate in civil immigration enforcement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday condemned a federal immigration enforcement operation after an anti-ICE mob violently protested outside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,2035,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,7428,58,82],"class_list":["post-219501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-brooklyn","tag-ice","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nypd","tag-protesters","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219501","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=219501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}