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Source: theguardian.com

<p>Darializa Avila Chevalier criticizes NYPD’s ‘inaction’ in protecting Marble Hill protesters after ICE shot a man</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/democrats" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Democratic</a> congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier believes that the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-york" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">New York</a> police departments’ conduct towards protesters after an ICE agent <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/08/nyc-shooting-federal-agent" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">shot and wounded</a> a man in the district she is running to represent violated “the spirit, if not the letter” of the city’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/06/sanctuary-movement-lessons-ice" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">sanctuary laws</a>. These rules ban local police from helping federal immigration authorities in civil immigration enforcement operations.</p><p>Protests <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/09/marble-hill-new-york-city-ice-shooting-reaction" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">broke out</a> in Manhattan’s Marble Hill neighborhood after a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">ICE</a>) agent shot Oscar Belgal, a 28-year-old Dominican man, while he was sitting in his car with a five-year-old in the backseat. The child was physically unharmed, and Belgal was taken to the hospital. He was reported as being in <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/person-shot-ice-officers-new-york-city-rcna602413" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">stable condition</a>, before ICE <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/new-york-city/ny-judge-orders-friday-hearing-for-man-shot-by-ice-with-5-year-old-in-car/6557717/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">reportedly</a> <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/nyc-man-shot-by-ice-still-has-bullet-in-body-lawyers-say/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">took him into custody</a> again. The Department of Homeland Security has said Belgal was undocumented.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/11/darializa-avila-chevalier-nypd-ice-protests-shooting" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>