US immigration officials have defended the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers who shot a man on Thursday in New York, while his five-year-old son was in the back seat of the car.
Markwayne Mullin, head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), stated that officers fired their weapons while attempting to arrest Oscar Belgal, a man with a criminal history. Mullin said the officers were unaware of the child’s presence and argued that Belgal endangered his son by being in the car. Belgal is currently in a detention facility.
ICE official Marcos Charles explained that agents used their vehicles to stop Belgal, but he resisted and accelerated, hitting two ICE vehicles. Charles added that Belgal then used his vehicle as a weapon, accelerating towards officers, who then fired their weapons believing their lives and those of the public were in danger.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani described the incident as
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Source: bbc.co.uk
