Murad Awawdeh is the president and chief executive officer of the New York Immigration Coalition, an umbrella advocacy group for immigrant-serving organizations in New York. The son of Palestinian immigrants, he grew up organizing in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and has spent more than two decades advocating for low-income communities of color across New York State.
Case
An ICE officer shot a man in a car in Marble Hill on October 8. DHS calls it a targeted arrest and had not said by October 9 why the officer fired. Mamdani says early reports indicate agents surrounded the man and child before firing.
Role at the time: President and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition, in a press release
Statement summary
Murad Awawdeh, president and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition, said in a statement that the shooting in a residential neighborhood shows ICE's violent tactics are a clear danger to all New Yorkers and is another reminder of the violence ICE has been spreading. At the scene he demanded that DHS release footage of the incident.
“ICE's violent tactics are a clear danger to all New Yorkers, as today's shooting in a residential neighborhood demonstrates. This incident is another reminder of the unchecked, rampant violence ICE has been spreading throughout our communities.”
The reference point is whether the ICE officer was justified in shooting the man in the car. Awawdeh calls ICE's tactics a clear danger to all New Yorkers and cites the shooting as proof, 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 information without a judgment; his statement states its conclusion.
Statement dates: October 8, 2026
Statement dates: October 8, 2026
Statement dates: October 8, 2026
