'ICE out of our neighbourhoods’: Shooting of man sparks protests in New York

File photo: Demonstrators protest near the scene of a shooting reportedly involving US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in the Bronx borough of New York City, US An ICE agent shot and wounded a Dominican man during an arrest in New York City on Thursday, triggering protests and drawing sharp criticism from local leaders over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.The shooting took place in the Marble Hill neighbourhood of Manhattan, near the Bronx, during what the department of homeland security (DHS) described as a “targeted enforcement operation”. The man survived and was being treated at a hospital, the agency said, but it did not explain what led the officer to open fire.According to preliminary information cited by CNN, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations branch encountered a person they were targeting shortly after 4 pm. DHS said agents were attempting to arrest a Dominican man with a prior criminal conviction and a history of other arrests when an officer discharged his weapon.Early reporting also indicated that there was a five-year-old child in the same car. The child was physically unharmed...