{"id":370910,"date":"2026-10-12T11:44:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T11:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370910\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T11:44:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T11:44:47","slug":"joe-scarborough-condemns-ice-shooting-near-5-year-old-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370910\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Scarborough condemns ICE shooting near 5-year-old in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

MS NOW\u2019s Joe Scarborough slammed Immigration and Customs Enforcement after an agent shot and wounded a man <\/a>inside an SUV in New York City on Thursday while a 5-year-old sat in the back seat. The \u201cMorning Joe\u201d<\/a> co-host accused federal agents of \u201cgambling with the lives\u201d of children and warned that President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s immigration crackdown will be \u201clooked back upon as a dark, dark chapter in American history.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to New York City officials, at approximately 4 p.m. ET in Manhattan\u2019s Marble Hill neighborhood, 28-year-old Oscar Belgal was shot in the neck after plainclothes federal agents approached his vehicle. The child, believed to be Belgal\u2019s son, was not injured.<\/p>\n

In a post on X<\/a>, the Department of Homeland Security said its officers were attempting to an undocumented immigrant from the Dominican Republic and alleged that he had a criminal conviction for grand larceny and multiple previous arrests.<\/p>\n

On Friday morning, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said agents were unaware a child was in the vehicle. He also blamed Belgal, who he said attempted to flee and struck officers\u2019 vehicles.<\/p>\n

Scarborough told viewers, \u201cJust put yourself in the scene here. \u2026 As school is let out in New York, that\u2019s the time an ICE agent unleashed a hail of gunfire into a car\u201d with a 5-year-old in the back seat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe boy, only by the grace of God, was not hurt,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Scarborough argued that the shooting raises serious questions about ICE\u2019s extreme tactics and whether agents are following established policing principles on the use of deadly force<\/a>. <\/p>\n

DHS doesn\u2019t \u201ctalk about how every other law enforcement agency in America would have gone in and gotten that man peacefully out of the car,\u201d he said. \u201cThey don\u2019t want to talk about that. No, no, they don\u2019t want to talk about why an amped-up federal agent sprayed bullets in the direction of a car on a crowded street in a residential area at school pickup time.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Scarborough, the central issue isn\u2019t the man\u2019s criminal history or the broader debate over immigration enforcement, but the danger posed by the agents\u2019 actions and the potential consequences for those caught in the middle.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAllison Detzel is an editor\/producer for MS NOW. She was previously a segment producer for \u201cAYMAN\u201d and \u201cThe Mehdi Hasan Show.\u201d\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MS NOW\u2019s Joe Scarborough slammed Immigration and Customs Enforcement after an agent shot and wounded a man inside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-370910","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\/370910","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=370910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}