{"id":385964,"date":"2026-10-28T23:23:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T23:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/385964\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T23:23:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T23:23:04","slug":"nypd-arrests-14-anti-ice-protesters-for-blocking-traffic-on-brooklyn-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/385964\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD arrests 14 anti-ICE protesters for blocking traffic on Brooklyn Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A protest against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/10\/08\/federal-ice-agents-shoot-man-in-the-bronx\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the shooting of Oscar Belgal<\/a> by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ended in arrests after multiple demonstrators blocked traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge Wednesday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Around 30 protesters formed a line in the Brooklyn-bound lanes on the Manhattan side of the span to block pedestrian and vehicular traffic around 12:35 p.m., police said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Protestors block the Brooklyn Bridge as they demonstrate for Oscar Belgal, who was shot by ICE, on Oct. 28, 2026, in New York City. (Photo by Adam Gray\/Getty Images)\" width=\"8479\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GettyImages-2301895905.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9296796\" \/>Protestors block the Brooklyn Bridge as they demonstrate for Oscar Belgal, who was shot by ICE, on Oct. 28, 2026, in New York City. (Photo by Adam Gray\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Two protesters could be seen holding a large yellow banner that read \u201cStop Shooting Us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At least 14 protesters were taken into custody after they refused repeated orders to disperse. It was not immediately clear what they were charged with.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"A protestor is carried as they are detained by NYPD officers for blocking the Brooklyn Bridge as they demonstrate for Oscar Belgal, who was shot by ICE, on Oct. 28, 2026, in New York City. (Photo by Adam Gray\/Getty Images)\" width=\"7735\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GettyImages-2301896011.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9296795\" \/>A protestor is carried as they are detained by NYPD officers for blocking the Brooklyn Bridge as they demonstrate for Oscar Belgal, who was shot by ICE, on Oct. 28, 2026, in New York City. (Photo by Adam Gray\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Video posted on X shows irate drivers arguing with protestors, who refused to let them pass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not fair. We\u2019re down with it, but it\u2019s not fair,\u201d one man says in the video.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Motorists argue with protestors as they block the Brooklyn Bridge in support of Oscar Belgal, who was shot by ICE, on Oct. 28, 2026, in New York City. (Photo by Adam Gray\/Getty Images)\" width=\"8084\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GettyImages-2301899603.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9296798\" \/>Motorists argue with protestors as they block the Brooklyn Bridge in support of Oscar Belgal, who was shot by ICE, on Oct. 28, 2026, in New York City. (Photo by Adam Gray\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Belgal, an undocumented immigrant with an arrest record that includes two busts in the last three years, was wounded when ICE agents fired seven rounds into the silver Honda Civic SUV he was driving in the Bronx on Oct. 8. His 5-year-old son was in the backseat when ICE agents opened fire.<\/p>\n<p>Belgal was struck in the neck. The child was not harmed.<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys for Belgal are trying to get him released from federal lockup, claiming in court papers that ICE <a href=\"http:\/\/chrome-extension:\/\/efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj\/https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0?ui=2&amp;ik=fa0d0cee11&amp;attid=0.1&amp;permmsgid=msg-f:1880244356410795038&amp;th=1a17f847bacc641e&amp;view=att&amp;disp=inline&amp;realattid=f_mvr9ox2w0&amp;zw&amp;acrobatPromotionSource=gmail_chrome-card\" rel=\"nofollow\">didn\u2019t have a valid warrant<\/a> to take him into custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A protest against the shooting of Oscar Belgal by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ended in arrests after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,75,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-385964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385964","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=385964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}