Ritchie Torres
Role at the time: U.S. Representative for New York's 15th District, in a post on X
Statement summary
Rep. Ritchie Torres, who represents the Bronx, said he is outraged by the shooting of a man in his car beside a 5-year-old child, called firing multiple rounds into a car with a child inside on a busy residential street abhorrent and indefensible, and said ICE has long operated as a rogue agency. He called on the DHS Inspector General to open an immediate and independent investigation and on ICE to release all footage of the shooting.
“I am outraged by the ICE shooting of a man in Marble Hill today as he sat in his car beside a 5-year-old child. Firing multiple rounds into a car with a child inside, on a busy residential street in the Bronx, is abhorrent and indefensible. It put an entire neighborhood in danger and left a man seriously injured. ICE has long operated as a rogue agency, and today's shooting is a chilling reminder of how little regard it has for the safety of New Yorkers.”
Why we used this label
The reference point is whether the ICE officer was justified in shooting the man in the car. Torres says he is outraged and that firing multiple rounds into a car with a child inside is abhorrent and indefensible, which rejects the shooting as justified, so we labeled it Condemned. The closest competing label is Mixed or conditional, which would fit a statement that withholds judgment pending an investigation; he states his conclusion and also asks for an investigation, so it loses.