President Trump says "our heroes of ICE" apprehended a dangerous man and that ICE was "scorned" instead of "praised"
Donald TrumpPresident of the United States, speaking at a campaign rally in Syracuse, New York
At a Syracuse rally for Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman, President Trump said that the day before ICE officers had apprehended a man with a criminal record a mile long who was wanted for possible murder and a gang murder, that he is a very dangerous man, and that instead of being praised ICE was scorned by New York politicians who, he said, wanted the man set loose. Newsweek and Newsday reported the remarks as being about the Marble Hill shooting; Trump did not name the man in this passage.
“just yesterday, our heroes of ICE apprehended a man with a criminal record a mile long who was wanted for possible murder and murder in a gang ... He's a very dangerous man and they got him. But instead of being praised, ICE was scorned by New York politicians who set him loose. They want to set him loose.”
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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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Livestream of President Trump's October 9, 2026 rally for Bruce Blakeman in Syracuse, New York.
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Newsweek report of October 10, 2026 on Trump's Syracuse rally, which connects his remarks to the Marble Hill shooting.
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Newsday report of October 10, 2026 on a Saturday protest in Manhattan, which also reports Trump's remarks about the agents.
Before the quotation
Trump was campaigning in Syracuse for Bruce Blakeman on the evening of October 9, 2026, the day after the Marble Hill shooting.
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Trump then said that voters who want to stop illegal alien criminals from being released into their communities must elect Blakeman and a Republican Congress.
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Why this label?
The reference point is whether the ICE officer was justified in shooting the man in the car. Trump calls the officers heroes who apprehended a very dangerous man and says ICE was scorned instead of praised, which treats the officers' actions that day as deserving praise, so we labeled it Defended or excused. He did not name the man or mention the shooting in this passage; Newsweek and Newsday report it as his comment on the Marble Hill shooting. The closest competing label is Challenged the characterization, because he disputes how critics describe the operation; he goes on to praise the officers, so it loses.
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