Tom Homan says the man "tried to run an officer over" and that the men and women of ICE "are patriots"

Tom HomanWhite House border czar, speaking on Fox News' Saturday in America

Defended or excused

Mediaite reported that White House border czar Tom Homan told Fox News the man "tried to run an officer over" with his car and did not comply with lawful orders, and blamed Gov. Kathy Hochul's and Mayor Zohran Mamdani's sanctuary policies. Homan said that if federal agents had had access to him when the NYPD first arrested him, none of this would have happened, and that the men and women of ICE are patriots.

“tried to run an officer over ... If we would have had access to him when he was originally arrested by NYPD, none of this would have happened ... The men and women of ICE are patriots.”

Reporting

Open source (opens in a new tab)Tom Homan Rages at Mamdani for 'Emboldening' People 'Not to Comply' with ICE After Agent Shoots Man While 5-Year-Old Is In the Car (Mediaite)Paragraphs quoting Tom Homan on Fox News' Saturday in America: the claim that the man tried to run an officer over, the access remark, and the closing remark about ICE officers.

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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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Reporting

Tom Homan Rages at Mamdani for 'Emboldening' People 'Not to Comply' with ICE After Agent Shoots Man While 5-Year-Old Is In the Car (Mediaite) (opens in a new tab)Paragraphs quoting Tom Homan on Fox News' Saturday in America: the claim that the man tried to run an officer over, the access remark, and the closing remark about ICE officers.

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Mediaite report of October 10, 2026 on Homan's Fox News interview about the Marble Hill shooting.

Before the quotation

Homan spoke a day after DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and ICE's Marcos Charles defended the officers at a news briefing at ICE headquarters.

After the quotation

Mediaite reported that host Kayleigh McEnany then played a clip of Mayor Zohran Mamdani accusing ICE of terrorizing the city.

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Defended or excused

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. Homan says the man tried to run an officer over with his car, says sanctuary policies are to blame for the confrontation and calls ICE's men and women patriots, which supports the officer's conduct as justified, so we labeled it Defended or excused. The closest competing label is Challenged the characterization, because he rebuts critics' account of the shooting; he goes on to defend the agents themselves, so it loses.

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