Murad Awawdeh
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.”
Press release of the New York Immigration Coalition dated October 8, 2026, with a statement from its president and chief executive officer on the shooting in the Bronx.
Why we used this label
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.