ICE SHOOTING: Over 1,000 protesters rally in Foley Square to demand agency leave NYC after Marble Hill incident

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : " Other speakers on Friday called for "clarity" in how the NYPD is acting during ICE operations.
50% : "We can't call ourselves a sanctuary city when the NYPD clears a path for ICE and goes after protesters like we saw last night," Basnet said.
49% : The group later marched from Foley Square to 201 Varick St., which houses United States Customs and Immigration Services offices as well as immigration courts, calling on ICE to release bodycam footage from Thursday's shooting.
46% : " The DHS claimed Bergal was the target of a Homeland Security Investigations probe and alleged that he had gang ties and direct or indirect knowledge related to a previous shooting of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer.
45% : Just moments ago, ICE put the man in an unmarked vehicle and whisked him away."
44% : He said ICE agents wore construction-style vests during the operation and used masks to conceal their faces, making it almost impossible for Bergal to identify them as law enforcement.
43% : Natalia Aristizabal, co-executive director of Make the Road NY, said the organization is seeking to ensure that the NYPD is "protecting our community members and not ICE agents.
42% : Friday's rally, organized by Hands Off NYC, saw representatives from the New York Immigration Coalition, Make the Road New York, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the New York Working Families Party and several other immigrant advocacy groups gather in front of ICE's New York City headquarters to demand that the agency be removed from New York City.
42% : Mullin, meanwhile, claimed earlier on Friday that Bergal ignored orders to exit his vehicle, struck two ICE vehicles and then accelerated toward officers before an agent opened fire.
42% : "For the past two hours, I have been on the phone with President Trump and Secretary Mullin, negotiating the release of the man ICE agents shot," Mamdani said.
41% : In a statement to amNewYork earlier on Friday, a Target spokesperson said, "Target has no cooperative agreements with ICE or any other immigration enforcement agency."
41% : DHS official Marcos Charles, meanwhile, claimed that ICE agents had attempted to box Bergal in as part of an operation to arrest him.
40% : However, investigators determined that at least one ICE agent fired seven rounds into Bergal's vehicle, striking him in the neck just below the ear.
39% : " Meanwhile, Devashish Basnet, immigration strategist with the New York Civil Liberties Union, demanded an independent investigation into the NYPD's role in ICE operations, accusing the police of targeting protesters in Marble Hill on Thursday night.
38% : "ICE undermines public safety.
37% : The NYPD said at least one ICE agent fired seven shots at 28-year-old Oscar Bergal, striking him in the neck below the ear, during an incident in Marble Hill Thursday afternoon.
37% : "We will not normalize ICE's viciousness.
37% : "I expressed outrage on behalf of New Yorkers and urged them to halt ICE enforcement operations in New York," Hochul said.
36% : Basnet also demanded that ICE be removed from New York and abolished, calling for an independent investigation into the shooting.
35% : Federal claims about Marble Hill shooting ICE has not responded to a request for comment.
34% : ICE has claimed that Bergal refused to comply with an order to exit his vehicle, also accusing him of attempting to "weaponize" his vehicle against agents.
32% : Murad Awawdeh, CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition, accused ICE of "waging a war" against New Yorkers.
31% : Further demands at Friday's protest included that Bergal be released immediately from ICE custody, that the shooter be charged and prosecuted and that Target and other businesses refuse to allow ICE to use their parking lots as staging posts for operations, with protesters alleging that ICE have used the parking lot at Marble Hill Target to stage operations in the Bronx.
30% : Mamdani, meanwhile, criticized ICE over the incident during a press conference Thursday night, questioning how Bergal could have reasonably identified masked, plainclothes federal agents.
29% : Mamdani further criticized ICE agents for firing rounds into a car with a five-year-old child.
23% : Echoing Mamdani's call demanding 'ICE out of NYC' Awawdeh and other speakers also called for the removal of ICE from New York and the abolition of the federal agency.
22% : Gov. Kathy Hochul also said Thursday night that she had spoken with Trump and Mullin, urging them to halt ICE enforcement operations in New York.

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