{"id":372116,"date":"2026-10-13T17:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372116\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T17:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:16:10","slug":"nyc-mayor-mamdani-rejects-dsa-pressure-to-fire-nypd-commissioner-jessica-tisch-over-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372116\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Mamdani rejects DSA pressure to fire NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch over ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Mamdani Tuesday rejected calls from his political base on the left to fire NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch over the presence of ICE agents in New York.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cTisch is the police commissioner. I have no plans to change that,\u201d Mamdani said in Queens Tuesday morning, his first media availability since Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Mamdani went on to praise Tisch\u2019s record, touting her work \u201cuprooting corruption from the upper echelons of the NYPD\u201d as well as overseeing a drop in murders and shootings across the city.<\/a><\/p>\n

The NYPD has been accused by some on the left of working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents<\/a> and mistreating protesters after ICE agents shot an undocumented immigrant, Oscar Belgal,<\/a> in his car as his 5-year-old son sat in the back set, Belgal, who was injured but survived the shooting, is currently in federal custody.<\/p>\n

\"Mayor<\/p>\n

Barry Williams \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference after ICE agents shot and wounded a man on Marble Hill Ave. near W. 225th St. on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026 in the Bronx. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch is pictured at far right. (Barry Williams\/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, a group close to the mayor, pressured him to fire Tisch if she couldn\u2019t get federal immigration agents out of the city. The DSA has been a sharp critic of Tisch\u2019s law enforcement tactics.<\/p>\n

\u201cICE is a terrorist agency that must be expelled from New York City and abolished,\u201d NYC-DSA said in a statement. \u201cJessica Tisch must get ICE out of New York and end NYPD complicity with these terrorists. If the commissioner can\u2019t put a stop to these injustices, she must be fired.\u201d<\/p>\n

ICE is a federal agency that does not require permission from the NYPD or the mayor to operate in the city.<\/p>\n

\"NYPDNYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch shakes Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s hand at One Police Plaza on Wednesday, March 3, 2026 in Manhattan, New York. (Barry Williams\/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Darializa Avila Chevalier, a Democratic congressional nominee and close ally of the mayor, directly called for Tisch to leave her post: \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 on Friday.<\/p>\n

Mamdani campaigned for mayor on a platform that including transformative changes to public safety \u2014 but those changes have largely not materialized, ten months into his tenure. On Monday, Mamdani announced a slate of reforms aimed at\u00a0improving police accountability, as well as a sweeping review of the department\u2019s use of force policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani Tuesday rejected calls from his political base on the left to fire NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[267,9,24,55,54,10,692,12,56,87],"class_list":["post-372116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-politics","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372116","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=372116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}