“The residents of Marble Hill have been denouncing a growing presence of the ICE in their neighborhood for months.” This opens the note of the president of Manhattan district, Brad Hoylman-Sigal, on the margin of the shooting on Thursday, October 8, when a federal immigration officer wounded a man during an operation in the area. In his statement, Hoylman-Sigal accused Trump administration of risking the security of residents.
“To achieve its targets of mass deportation, the Trump administration is sending thousands of new agents in our streets with poor or non-existent training, leaving them free and giving them the mandate to terrorize our communities,” continues the note. The president of Manhattan described what happened as what seems to be “the last of a series of episodes in which federal agents shot”, while the ICE extends what defined a “warming champion” in the neighborhoods of the country.
The wounded man is 28 years old and was hit on his neck. In the car with him there was a five-year-old boy, who remained unharmed. According to the New York police officer, Jessica Tisch, at least the ICE officer exploded seven shots. The man was taken to the hospital in stable conditions; the city police pointed out that they did not participate in the federal operation.
Hoylman-Sigal said he was in contact with the authorities and community members on the spot. Its statement does not add elements on the dynamics of the shots: it contests the management of the ICE operations and the choices of the administration that directs them. The accusation on the insufficient preparation of new agents also concerns the federal recruitment policy; the communiqué does not provide information on the formation of men involved in Marble Hill.
The reports recalled by the President of Manhattan had already led to an initiative of the local elect. On October 5, three days before the shooting, eight representatives from the Bronx and Upper Manhattan had written to the owners of the Shops at Marble Hill shopping mall to ask for clarification on the use of Target parking by the ICE. According to reports collected, agents used it as a standpoint for operations. In the letter, the elect asked to terminate any authorisations, subject to legal obligations. Target said he had no cooperation agreements with federal immigration agencies. A link between those reports and the Thursday operation has not been established.
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that an ICE agent shot during an operation aimed at an arrest, without explaining what caused the use of the weapon. The city police cameras have resumed two bourgeois agents approaching the car, one with the gun pulled out, but not the time of the shoots: the vehicle had already left the picture.
Hoylman-Sigal concluded his intervention by returning to the need to limit the agency’s operations: “We saw what happens when the ICE acts without controls. The New Yorkers will not accept it.”.
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