Espaillat says ICE is "a rogue agency that must be reigned in" after the Marble Hill shooting
Adriano EspaillatU.S. representative for New York's 13th district, in a post on X
Rep. Adriano Espaillat, who represents the area, said he was at the scene being briefed by the NYPD, that he was demanding that all body camera footage and evidence be preserved and a full investigation with full cooperation from the federal government, and that ICE is a rogue agency that must be reigned in.
“I am demanding all body camera footage and evidence be preserved, a full investigation with full cooperation from the federal government, and accountability. ICE is a rogue agency that must be reigned in.”
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Where this statement fits
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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The congressman's own post on his official account.
Before the quotation
Espaillat posted from the scene about two and a half hours after the shooting. He later told reporters that federal agents did not let him see the man in the hospital, The Intercept reported.
After the quotation
The post begins by saying he was being briefed by the NYPD on the shooting involving federal law enforcement agents in the Bronx.
How this statement is classified
The label describes this statement's response within the context above.
Why this label?
The reference point is whether the ICE officer was justified in shooting the man in the car. Espaillat calls ICE a rogue agency that must be reigned in in the same post that demands preservation of evidence and accountability for the shooting, which rejects the shooting as justified, so we labeled it Condemned. The closest competing label is Mixed or conditional, which would fit a call for an investigation alone; he states a conclusion about the agency.
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