New York Governor Kathy Hochul said she spoke with President Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Mullin on Thursday night about the shooting of a person by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Manhattan's Marble Hill neighborhood, and urged them to halt ICE enforcement operations in New York.
"Tonight, I spoke with President Trump and DHS Secretary Mullin about the shooting in Marble Hill," Hochul said in a post from her official account, @GovKathyHochul. "I expressed outrage on behalf of New Yorkers and urged them to halt ICE enforcement operations in New York."
In the same post, the governor said she asked that any body camera footage of the shooting be released to the public, adding that she was seeking answers about what happened.
The shooting took place Thursday afternoon in Marble Hill, according to a statement from the New York Police Department. CBS News reported, citing law enforcement sources, that a person was hospitalized after being shot by an ICE agent, and that the shooting took place around four in the afternoon. The NYPD's statement, as reported, did not name the person or describe the circumstances that led to the gunfire.
Earlier in the evening, Hochul said New Yorkers were outraged and immigrant communities were terrified, and that the state was demanding answers. "There is still much we don't know about what happened in Marble Hill," she said. "But initial reports indicate ICE agents fired into a vehicle with a five-year-old child inside." She did not say what source the initial reports came from.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani also weighed in, saying he called President Trump in order to demand answers about the shooting, according to CBS News. Mamdani, reported the Hindustan Times, called for ICE to be abolished after the man was shot. The Daily Express US reported that Mamdani branded the shooting an "outrage" and described the agency as "rotten."
The Intercept reported that ICE agents shot a person in New York City on Thursday afternoon, citing police. The shooting took place around four in the afternoon in Manhattan's Marble Hill neighborhood, according to the NYPD statement.
By Thursday evening, protests had broken out in the Bronx, according to the Gateway Pundit, which reported that an ICE agent shot and wounded an illegal alien from the Dominican Republic in Marble Hill. Video circulating on social media, the outlet said, showed anti-ICE activists blocking federal vehicles and confronting ICE agents. The nationality and immigration status of the person shot were reported by the Gateway Pundit and have not been independently confirmed in the accounts reviewed here.
The sequence of events unfolded over several hours Thursday. CBS News first reported shortly after eleven o'clock Eastern that a person had been shot by an ICE agent in Marble Hill, citing law enforcement sources. By midnight, Hochul had issued her first statement, describing New Yorkers as outraged and immigrant communities as terrified. Roughly twenty minutes later, the Gateway Pundit reported that protests had erupted in the Bronx. Early Friday morning, Hochul issued a second post describing her call with the president and the DHS secretary, and reiterating her demand that enforcement operations be halted and that body camera footage be released.
The White House did not immediately respond publicly to the governor's account of the call, and no statement from President Trump or Secretary Mullin on the conversation was included in the material reviewed. The Department of Homeland Security has not issued a public account of the shooting in the posts and coverage examined here.
Hochul's call for a halt to ICE operations in New York marks an escalation in the state's posture toward federal immigration enforcement, which has been a flashpoint in New York City politics. The governor's request that body camera footage be released is a demand for evidence, not an assertion that such footage exists or that it has been withheld.
Mamdani's call to abolish ICE goes further than the governor's request to pause operations. The mayor's office did not provide additional detail on his call with the president beyond what CBS News reported.
What is known publicly at this stage is limited: a person was shot by an ICE agent in Marble Hill on Thursday afternoon, that person was hospitalized, and New York's governor and New York City's mayor have both demanded answers. The circumstances that led an ICE agent to fire, the condition of the person shot, and the status of any body camera footage have not been laid out in the accounts reviewed here.
Our Take
Two of New York's most prominent Democrats responded to a federal agent's shooting of a man in Manhattan by demanding that the federal government stop enforcing immigration law in their state and hand over its footage. That is a remarkable posture: the governor of New York, within hours of a shooting whose facts she herself acknowledged were largely unknown, asked the president of the United States to stand down his own law enforcement agency in her jurisdiction. Whatever the merits of the underlying incident — and the public does not yet know them — the reflexive move to halt enforcement before the facts are established tells you what the priority actually is. It is not the truth about what happened in Marble Hill. It is the political containment of a federal agency that New York's elected leadership has spent years treating as an occupying force. The mayor went further, calling for ICE to be abolished outright, a position that requires no knowledge of Thursday's facts at all. Meanwhile, the one detail the governor chose to elevate from "initial reports" — a child in the vehicle — did the work of coloring the incident before any investigation could. New Yorkers deserve answers. They also deserve leaders who wait for them.
