A Democratic congressional candidate has accused the NYPD of failing to uphold sanctuary laws by not intervening during protests in Manhattan’s Marble Hill neighborhood following a shooting by an ICE agent. The incident occurred when an ICE officer fired at a man sitting in his car with a child inside, leaving the man wounded and later taken into custody. Protests erupted in response, with the candidate arguing that police inaction contradicted the city’s legal protections for immigrants. The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed the man was undocumented.
Darializa Avila Chevalier criticizes NYPD’s ‘inaction’ in protecting Marble Hill protesters after ICE shot a manDemocratic congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier believes that the New York police departments’ conduct towards protesters after an ICE agent shot and wounded a man in the district she is running to represent violated “the spirit, if not the letter” of the city’s sanctuary laws. These rules ban local police from helping federal immigration authorities in civil immigration enforcement operations.Protests broke out in Manhattan’s Marble Hill neighborhood after a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot Oscar Belgal, a 28-year-old Dominican man, while he was sitting in his car with a five-year-old in the backseat. The child was physically unharmed, and Belgal was taken to the hospital. He was reported as being in stable condition, before ICE reportedly took him into custody again. The Department of Homeland Security has said Belgal was undocumented. Continue reading...
