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On October 9, protesters gathered in New York City following the shooting of 28-year-old Oscar Belgal in the Bronx. Lela Edgar\/SOPA Images\/AP<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\tGet your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily.<\/a><\/p>\n The ICE shooting of a 28-year-old in the Bronx Thursday has provoked an uproar among New Yorkers, who rushed to the streets in protest the night of the shooting, clashing with the New York Police Department. At least five protesters were arrested. And though members of the NYPD were not involved in the shooting, they were involved in arresting protesters and, some witnesses say, protecting ICE vehicles\u2014despite a New York State law that prohibits local police departments<\/a> from collaborating with the federal agency, as well as local \u201csanctuary city\u201d laws. <\/p>\n Allies of Mayor Zohran Mamdani are now calling on his police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, to step down if ICE does not leave New York City. <\/p>\n Oscar Belgal, the man who was shot in his car<\/a> while his five-year-old child sat in the backseat, is being hold in the MDC Brooklyn federal detention facility. He was shot at least seven times, according to police. Some ICE agents at the scene were dressed as construction workers; at least one carried a long gun. Belgal, according to his lawyers, was transported first to a local hospital, then to ICE custody in New Jersey and then to the federal prison in New York City in the hours following his shooting. He still has a bullet lodged in his body, one of his attorneys told a federal judge during a hearing Friday.<\/p>\n Though Mayor Zohran Mamdani called for the abolition of ICE shortly after the shooting, his New York Police Department seemed to coordinate<\/a> with ICE agents, clearing the way for ICE vehicles<\/a> to pass through a crowd of protesters at a hospital near the scene that evening.<\/p>\n \u201cWe cannot call ourselves a sanctuary city when the NYPD clears the path for ICE but goes after protesters like we saw last night,\u201d Devashish Basnet of the New York Civil Liberties Union\u00a0said at a rally Friday. \u201cOur city can\u2019t claim to stand up for us against the Trump regime when our police commissioner carries water for Homeland Security and smears the name of Oscar Belgal, like she did last night.\u201d<\/p>\n That police commissioner, third-generation billionaire heiress<\/a> Jessica Tisch, is a holdover from Eric Adams\u2019 mayoral administration who has pushed to expand surveillance infrastructure<\/a> in New York City. At a press conference Thursday<\/a>, she highlighted Belgal\u2019s two prior arrests.<\/p>\n Democratic Socialist allies of Mamdani called for Tisch to stop New York police officers from working with ICE either formally or informally\u2014or, failing that, to step down in the aftermath of the shooting. The New York chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, which propelled Mamdani to his upset victory ten months ago, released a statement Friday saying that \u201cICE is a terrorist agency that must be expelled from New York City and abolished.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cJessica Tisch must get ICE out of New York and end NYPD complicity with these terrorists,\u201d the group wrote.<\/a> \u201cIf the commissioner can\u2019t put a stop to these injustices, she must be fired.\u201d <\/p>\n Congressional candidate Darializa Chevalier of the Bronx, who can be seen on video being shoved to the ground by NYPD officers at a protest the night of the shooting, also called for the police commissioner\u2019s resignation on Friday morning, as did State Assemblymember Claire Valdez.<\/p>\n Yesterday, an ICE agent opened fire in Marble Hill. They shot a member of our community in the neck while he was in his car. His five-year-old kid was in a child seat in the back of the car when ICE agents fired at least 7 rounds into it. This was in the middle of the afternoon,\u2026<\/p>\n \u2014 Darializa for Congress (@DarializaforNY) October 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe NYPD spent more time protecting a militia that just shot someone than protecting New Yorkers,\u201d Chevalier wrote on social media. \u201cLast night, the NYPD and Commissioner Tisch violated the spirit, if not the letter, of our sanctuary city policies and fueled the Trump Administration\u2019s attempt to demonize our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n Mamdani reportedly spent hours on the phone<\/a> with President Donald Trump Friday attempting to negotiate Belgal\u2019s release, but was unsuccessful. <\/p>\n Federal immigration officials, meanwhile, are defending the shooting\u2014and arguing, as they often have in ICE shooting cases, that Belgal was only shot at because he \u201cweaponized his vehicle.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n