{"id":369456,"date":"2026-10-10T01:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369456\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T01:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:08:13","slug":"dsa-to-mamdani-fire-nypd-commissioner-if-ice-doesnt-leave-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369456\/","title":{"rendered":"DSA to Mamdani: Fire NYPD commissioner if ICE doesn’t leave NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America is pressuring Mayor Zohran Mamdani to fire his police commissioner after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shot and arrested a 28-year-old man<\/a> in Marble Hill on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The DSA, which the mayor has called his \u201cpolitical home,\u201d<\/a> accused the NYPD of collaborating with immigration enforcement agents and abusing protesters who came to the scene after the shooting<\/a>. The organization called on the mayor to hold Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch responsible.<\/p>\n

\u201cICE is a terrorist agency that must be expelled from New York City and abolished,\u201d the DSA said in a press release on Friday. \u201cJessica Tisch must get ICE out of New York and end NYPD complicity with these terrorists. If the commissioner can’t put a stop to these injustices, she must be fired.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear how Tisch could force ICE out of the city. But the DSA\u2019s ultimatum represents the biggest clash to date between the mayor and the group that propelled his election win last year.<\/p>\n

Dora Pekec, a mayoral spokesperson, released a statement saying there were no plans to remove Tisch.<\/p>\n

\u201cJessica Tisch is the police commissioner and there are no plans to change that,\u201d she said in a statement. Pekec said the mayor and NYPD plan to \u201creview all of the events of the last 24 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s shooting was ICE’s most serious escalation of violence in New York City since the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown began. An ICE agent shot Oscar Belgal while he was inside a car with his 5-year-old son, according to city officials and eyewitnesses. He was in custody on Friday at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, federal officials said.<\/p>\n

Grace Mausser, the local DSA co-chair, accused NYPD officers of helping ICE. She cited a chaotic scene captured on social media where police officers shoved bystanders aside as an unmarked car drove away.<\/p>\n

Mamdani spokesperson Sam Raskin defended the NYPD\u2019s response to Thursday\u2019s protest, saying in a statement that \u201cICE\u2019s convoy left the hospital at a dangerously high speed, creating a serious risk of injury to anyone in its path.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mausser also criticized Tisch for detailing Belgal\u2019s criminal history during a press conference with Mamdani on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The DSA has for months criticized Tisch\u2019s management of the NYPD, including policies to crackdown on low-level offenses, the use of a gang database, and the deployment of the Strategic Response Group, a unit that responds to protests and has been sued over its aggressive tactics that Mamdani promised to dismantle<\/a> during his mayoral campaign.<\/p>\n

NYPD spokesperson Brad Weekes said the SRG unit did not respond to Thursday night\u2019s protests in Marble Hill.<\/p>\n

Richard Esposito, a police analyst and former NYPD deputy commissioner, said it\u2019s standard procedure for police to clear roads so federal agents can drive away from a scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey would do that for anyone. That is part of their job,\u201d said Esposito, who added it\u2019s safer to let them leave than to keep them in that situation. \u201cThat\u2019s the case for many incidents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mausser said the DSA had given the mayor \u201ca lot of grace for the struggles of what it means to govern the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe’s had 10 months,\u201d Mausser said of Tisch. \u201cWe’ve tried to give space, but we would like to see results at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Previous Mayor Eric Adams appointed Tisch to lead the NYPD in 2024, after several of his NYPD commissioners resigned amid allegations of corruption.<\/p>\n

Darializa Avila Chevalier, a Democratic congressional nominee and ally of Mamdani, directly called for Tisch to step down. Avila Chevalier, who was at the scene of the shooting on Thursday, was seen on video being pushed to the ground by police officers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NYPD\u2019s Strategic Response Group must be disbanded as quickly as possible, and Commissioner Tisch must step down,\u201d Avila Chevalier said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Mamdani has not spoken with reporters since late Thursday night, when he said he unsuccessfully tried to secure Belgal’s release during a two-hour phone call with Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Mullin said Trump offered to release Belgal to the NYPD’s custody but Mamdani refused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America is pressuring Mayor Zohran Mamdani to fire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-369456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369456","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=369456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}