New York mayor calls for ICE removal after man shot with 5-year-old nearby

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New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday he would ask US President Donald Trump to remove federal immigration agents from the city as tensions flared over the latest shooting involving ICE. The New York Police Department said a man had been shot around 4pm in the Marble Hill neighborhood of the Bronx during an altercation with federal agents. Mamdani and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) later confirmed that the shooting occurred during an operation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency responsible for Trump's immigration crackdown. Mamdani said that a five-year-old child was in the car when the altercation occurred. A DHS spokesperson said in a statement that agents were attempting to "to arrest a criminal illegal alien from the Dominican Republic with a prior criminal conviction for grand larceny, and multiple prior arrests for assault, robbery, possession of drugs, and weapons possession." It did not state how many officers fired their weapons or why. "ICE officers immediately rendered aid. The individual is alive and at a local hospital," the DHS spokesperson said. The department initially claimed that the person targeted had associations with a Do...

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