New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D-NY) said he reached out to President Donald Trump and would push him to stop ICE actions across the city after federal agents allegedly fired on a Bronx vehicle with a 5-year-old child inside.
The mayor placed the Thursday confrontation in Marble Hill, saying agents boxed in a car on a residential street before shots were fired.
“This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city,” Mamdani wrote on social media.
Mamdani said the man in the vehicle was hit by gunfire, while the child escaped physical injury.
“I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities. Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery,” he added.
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The shooting became the basis for Mamdani’s broadest demand yet against immigration enforcement in New York City.
“Get ICE out of our neighborhoods,” Mamdani concluded. “Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children. Abolish ICE.”
The New York Daily News obtained footage of police removing the injured man from a silver SUV and putting him into a black car that drove off.
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Police officers said the unidentified man was hospitalized, conscious and receiving care.
Law enforcement sources told the New York Post that the man’s injuries were not considered life-threatening.
Department of Homeland Security officials cast the confrontation as part of an ICE effort to take a Dominican noncitizen into custody.
The agency said the man was wanted during a “targeted enforcement operation” and had a grand larceny conviction, along with arrests linked to assault, robbery, drug possession and weapons possession.
DHS also tied him to the Trinitarios gang, which officials described as the same gang behind the killing of a Customs and Border Patrol officer last year.
The ICE fight gave Mamdani another public clash after several days of scrutiny over his response to the third anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel.
On Wednesday, Mamdani visited Hinds Hall, a Palestinian-owned restaurant on the Upper West Side whose menu includes a riff on “from the river to the sea.”
NYC @NYCMayor making quite a statement. Having dinner at the only Palestinian restaurant on the Upper West Side this October 7th. pic.twitter.com/6w0FUaq47Y
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A widely shared video placed him smiling inside the restaurant after he had appeared at a Union Square vigil for Oct. 7 victims, where protesters shouted at him.
Israelis for Peace NYC organized the vigil to remember the Hamas attack victims from Oct. 7, when terrorists invaded Israel and killed 1,200 people.
Mamdani did not speak at the vigil as protesters interrupted speakers, took electric candles meant for the event and yelled at him while he left with his entourage and security.
Some demonstrators yelled “Traitor!” “Death to the IDF!” and “Long live Hamas,” while others mockingly sang “Hava Nagila.”
One protester shouted at organizers, “We sent your people to hell on October 7.”
Other chants aimed at Mamdani included, “Mamdani, you can’t hide! We charge you with genocide!” and “Zohran, what do you say? How many boots did you lick today?”
The New York Times reported that another protester yelled, “Mayor Mamdani is a sellout!”
Hinds Hall brought its own controversy because the restaurant says it was named after a 5-year-old Palestinian girl killed in Gaza, while the Times of Israel reported that its menu shows a Middle East map labeling the entire territory as Palestine, including Israel, Gaza, Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem.
Mamdani’s Oct. 7 statement included Hamas’ killing of “more than 1,100 Israelis” and the abduction of 251 others, along with a message to those still carrying the grief of the attack.
“We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss,” Mamdani said.
The statement also accused Israel of a “devastating, ongoing genocide” in Gaza and used the words “occupation” and “apartheid.”
“The suffering did not begin nor end that day,” Mamdani said. “It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians — including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed.”
Mamdani also accused Israel of hitting ambulances, residential buildings and journalists while keeping food aid from entering.
“That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing,” he added.
He also framed New Yorkers’ mourning against the use of U.S. tax dollars for what he called war crimes.
“Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.”
New York City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (R-NY) attacked Mamdani’s statement as “another disgraceful comment from the mayor.”
“He couldn’t just offer a simple condolence and condemnation of the 10/7 atrocities. Instead, he had to devote 60% of the statement to lies about Israel designed to stir hatred of Jewish people under the guise of ‘anti-Zionism’, which has already been used to attack Jewish businesses and synagogues and students across the city and the world,” Paladino said.
Israeli Consul General Ofir Akunis invited Mamdani to watch a 47-minute film about the Hamas atrocities from Oct. 7.
“If he will come on October 7th he will see for the first time what the people he supports really did,” Akunis said. “Maybe if he will come, he will stop spreading his hate and blood libels against the state of Israel.”
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) marked the anniversary by focusing on the victims, survivors and families.
“It’s hard to fathom that it has been three years since the October 7 Hamas massacre,” Hochul wrote. “Three years since the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. The pain of that dark day has not faded. But neither has the strength, resilience and enduring hope of the Jewish people.”
“Today, we remember the innocent lives stolen, stand with the survivors and the families forever changed, and pray for a lasting peace,” she added.
