ICE Agent Shoots Driver in New York City, Sparking Protests
The Facts
- A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fired into a vehicle in the Marble Hill neighborhood of New York City on Thursday afternoon, injuring the driver. A five-year-old boy in the back seat was not hurt. The New York Police Department (NYPD) was not involved in the shooting.
- Police chief Jessica Tisch said evidence collected at the scene showed that at least one ICE agent fired seven rounds, striking the 28-year-old driver in the neck below his left ear. The FBI and Homeland Security Investigations responded.
- The Department of Homeland Security said officers were conducting an operation to arrest a Dominican national living in the U.S. illegally, alleging he had a grand larceny conviction, prior arrests and ties to the Trinitarios gang.
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The Spin
Left narrative
Firing multiple rounds on a residential block with a small child in the back seat is the predictable result of letting an agency operate without the accountability every other law enforcement body accepts. Body camera footage and an independent investigation are the bare minimum, since claims from an agency policing itself mean little. No badge puts anyone above the law.
Right narrative
Street arrests only happen because sanctuary politicians refuse to hand over violent offenders already in custody, turning quiet neighborhoods into the only place left to make an arrest. Someone with a violent record and suspected gang ties should never have been turned loose in the first place. Blaming officers for the danger sanctuary policy created is backwards.
