Plainclothes ICE Agent with Long Gun Looked Like Mass Shooter, Mayor Mamdani Says
Officials said the man was hospitalized and his 5-year-old child was unharmed as city leaders demanded answers after the shooting.
- On Thursday, Oct. 8, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot 28-year-old Oscar Belgal in the neck during an enforcement operation in Marble Hill, while his 5-year-old son sat in the vehicle unharmed.
- The Department of Homeland Security defended the operation, alleging Belgal "weaponized his vehicle" against agents and citing his prior criminal arrests. Mayor Zohran Mamdani countered, criticizing the agency's tactics as "dangerously reckless."
- Governor Kathy Hochul and New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand demanded a transparent investigation. Hochul called the incident "terrifying for the child and immigrant communities," while Schumer requested body camera footage.
- Following a brief stay at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, Belgal was transferred by ICE to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. Protests erupted across the city, with Democratic Congressional nominee Darializa Avila Chevalier pushed to the ground by NYPD officers.
- Mayor Mamdani called President Donald Trump to demand an end to ICE enforcement in New York City. Mamdani and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch will conduct a 24-hour review of the shooting and the NYPD's response to protests.
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Plainclothes ICE agent with long gun looked like mass shooter, Mayor Mamdani says
Oscar Belgal in the moments after he was shot in the neck by ICE agents. The mayor said his administration would review ICE and NYPD actions surrounding Thursday’s shooting. [ more › ]
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ICE Shooting Sparks Fear, Outrage in Marble Hill’s Immigrant Community
Juan Morales was watering his tomato plants on his apartment roof when he heard screams coming from below his perch above Jacobus Place in Marble Hill. Moments later, a helicopter buzzed over the neighborhood. Morales, 56, who walks with a cane, made his way down to the street and into what he described as a […]
ICE Shooting Sparks Fear, Outrage in Marble Hill's Immigrant Community
Juan Morales was watering his tomato plants on his apartment roof when he heard screams coming from below his perch above Jacobus Place in Marble Hill. Moments later, a helicopter buzzed over the neighborhood. Morales, 56, who walks with a cane, made his way down to the street and into what he described as a “terrifying scene.” “I saw the man bleeding,” Morales said, leaning on his cane outside the Marble Hill-225 St subway station on Friday mo…
A fifty-year-old woman walks across the center of Marble Hill Avenue and shouts out a phrase in Spanish with Dominican leave that could be, at the same time, a celebration or a complaint: “We had never been out anywhere and now we’re going to be everywhere.”
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