Ocasio-Cortez calls ICE "a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency" after the Marble Hill shooting
Alexandria Ocasio-CortezU.S. representative for New York's 14th district, in a post on Threads
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said ICE agents fired multiple shots at a man in his vehicle while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat. She called for a full and independent investigation and the immediate release of all body camera footage, said the Target Corporation must stop offering its Bronx properties as staging sites for ICE, and said ICE should not exist and should be abolished.
“ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency. It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE.”
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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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The congresswoman's own post on her official Threads account. The post is an image of a signed statement on House letterhead, captioned "My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill."
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Ocasio-Cortez posted the statement on Threads at 11:52 p.m. EDT, nearly eight hours after the shooting. It opens by saying ICE agents fired multiple shots at a man in his vehicle while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat.
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The statement also calls for "a full and independent investigation of this incident" and the immediate release of all body camera footage, and says the Target Corporation must stop offering its Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE. On October 5, eight elected officials had asked Target and Kingsbridge Associates to bar ICE from a West 225th Street parking lot.
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Why this label?
The reference point is whether the ICE officer was justified in shooting the man in the car. Ocasio-Cortez calls the shooting "a grave development" that requires an immediate response to protect New Yorkers, demands an independent investigation and the release of body camera footage, and calls ICE "a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency" that should not exist. That 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; she states a conclusion about the agency.
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The Dispute Index. "Ocasio-Cortez calls ICE "a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency" after the Marble Hill shooting". First published: 2026-10-09. Last updated: 2026-10-09. https://disputeindex.com/events/5279-rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-said-ice-agents-fired