Pierina Sanchez
Role at the time: New York City Council member for the 14th District, quoted by Gothamist
Statement summary
Council Member Pierina Sanchez, who represents the area, told Gothamist that ICE agents are terrorizing communities and are reckless, and that she wants them out. She said she had heard reports that agents fired through a car's windshield, that as many as seven shots were heard and that a child was in the car; Gothamist did not independently verify those reports.
“They're terrorizing our communities ... They're reckless. We want them out of here.”
Gothamist report of October 8, 2026 with quotes from Council Member Pierina Sanchez, a witness and Target, and a summary of the DHS statement and of the October 5 letter about ICE staging in a West 225th Street parking lot.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
The reference point is whether the ICE officer was justified in shooting the man in the car. Sanchez calls the agents reckless and says they are terrorizing communities after reports that they fired into a car with a child inside, 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 an investigation without a judgment; she asks for the agents to leave and states no condition.