Jumaane Williams says the Marble Hill shooting is "fully in line with ICE's mission of terrorizing immigrant communities"
Jumaane WilliamsNew York City Public Advocate, in a press statement
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams said ICE shot a New Yorker who had a child in his car and that, even with details unknown, the shooting was not an aberration but fully in line with ICE's mission of terrorizing immigrant communities. He called on the city to release any footage or information collected from the scene.
“Today ICE shot a New Yorker on our streets. He had a child in his car. And even as details remain unknown, this wasn't an outlier or an aberration. This is fully in line with ICE's mission of terrorizing immigrant communities. Fully expected when agents are more armed than they are trained, more directed toward public brutality than public safety.”
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Was ICE justified in shooting a man in a car in Marble Hill?
On October 8, 2026, an ICE officer shot a man in a car near Marble Hill Avenue and West 225th Street in Marble Hill, a neighborhood the NYPD placed in the Bronx and ABC News and The Intercept placed in upper Manhattan. DHS said ICE officers were conducting a targeted operation in the Bronx to arrest a man from the Dominican Republic with a prior grand larceny conviction and multiple prior arrests, and that an officer discharged his weapon during the incident. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said early reports indicated agents surrounded the man and his 5-year-old child in the car before firing multiple rounds. The NYPD said it was not involved and that the man was conscious at a hospital. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch later said evidence at the scene indicates at least one ICE agent discharged seven rounds, striking the driver in the neck. As of October 9, DHS had not said what prompted the officer to fire.
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Press statement from Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams. The page gives the date October 8, 2026; the office posted the statement on X at 8:21 p.m. EDT that evening.
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The Public Advocate's office had posted at 6:03 p.m. EDT that Williams was on his way to the scene. The statement followed at 8:21 p.m. EDT.
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He also said he heard fear and anger from Marble Hill residents at the scene and that ICE is not making the city safer.
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Why this label?
The reference point is whether the ICE officer was justified in shooting the man in the car. Williams calls the shooting fully in line with ICE's mission of terrorizing immigrant communities and says it was expected from agents more armed than trained, which rejects the shooting as justified even though he says details are unknown, so we labeled it Condemned. The closest competing label is Mixed or conditional, which would fit a statement that withholds judgment pending facts; his statement draws its conclusion before them.
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