ICE Officer Shoots A Man While Making An Arrest In New York, Officials Say

A federal immigration officer shot Oscar Belgal, 28, in the neck as he drove in Marble Hill on Thursday with a 5-year-old child in the car; Belgal survived and was hospitalized. DHS said it was conducting a 'targeted enforcement operation' against a man with a prior grand larceny conviction but did not explain what led to the shooting.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said plainclothes federal officers approached Belgal's car with guns drawn as he was parking, and at least one officer fired seven rounds after Belgal pulled the car forward; the child was unharmed. City police were not involved in the operation but responded after hearing shots.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the shooting an outrage and said officers wore construction vests and masks that made them hard to identify, and that federal authorities removed Belgal from the hospital overnight despite his two-hour appeal to the President and Homeland Security Secretary. Gov. Kathy Hochul said she delivered a similar message directly to the White House.

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