Mayor Zohran Mamdani backed the protestors after federal migration agents wounded a Dominican man
Anti-ICE demonstrators have clashed with police in New York City after federal agents shot and wounded a migrant from the Dominican Republic during his arrest.
Scuffles erupted in the Bronx late on Thursday outside a hospital where a man had been taken earlier in the day after suffering a gunshot wound to the neck.
Several hundred protesters gathered near the medical facility, chanting obscenities and slogans such as “From Palestine to Mexico, all these walls have got to go” and “We want ICE off our streets. No justice, no peace.”
At one point, the crowd attempted to dismantle the barricades set up by the police and engaged in a shoving match with officers. Several people were arrested, according to media reports.
The US Department of Homeland Security, which incorporates ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), said in an earlier statement that the shooting happened on Marble Hill Avenue at around 4 PM local time on Thursday.
Federal agents opened fire when they tried to detain a “criminal illegal alien” who was in a car with a child in the back seat, the statement read. It didn’t explain what provoked the shooting.
The 28-year-old man had “a prior criminal conviction for grand larceny, and multiple prior arrests for assault, robbery, possession of drugs and weapons possession,” the DHS said.
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