Chuck Schumer calls the Marble Hill shooting "deeply disturbing" and says "enough is enough"
Chuck SchumerU.S. Senator for New York and Senate Minority Leader, in a post on X
Sen. Chuck Schumer said the shooting of a New Yorker by ICE agents is deeply disturbing, especially amid reports that a child was in the car, and that enough is enough. He said DHS must immediately release all body camera footage and ensure a full, independent investigation, that there must be accountability when excessive force is used, and that the footage will speak for itself.
“The shooting of a New Yorker by ICE agents today is deeply disturbing, especially amid reports that a child was in the car when shots were fired. I'm relieved the man is receiving medical care and the child was unharmed. But enough is enough. New Yorkers deserve the full truth about what happened. DHS must immediately release all body camera footage and ensure a full, independent investigation. When excessive force is used, there must be accountability. No one is above the law. DHS can make all the claims it wants. The footage will speak for itself. Release it.”
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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. At a press conference on October 9, ICE's Marcos Charles said the man accelerated into two ICE vehicles and toward other officers, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the agents feared for their lives. A federal judge later barred ICE from removing the man from the country or moving him outside New York and New Jersey while his habeas corpus petition proceeds.
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The senator's own post on his official account.
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Schumer posted about four and a half hours after the shooting, after reports that a 5-year-old child was in the car.
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He added that he has warned for months that ICE's increasingly aggressive tactics put lives at risk.
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The reference point is whether the ICE officer was justified in shooting the man in the car. Schumer calls the shooting deeply disturbing, says enough is enough and says DHS can make all the claims it wants, which rejects the shooting as justified, so we labeled it Condemned. The closest competing label is Mixed or conditional, which fits his point that accountability follows when excessive force is used and his call for the full truth; he states his reaction to this shooting first, so it loses.
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