ICE shoots father with child in car during Marble Hill arrest attempt
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Summary
The MS NOW segment aired footage of Thursday's Marble Hill incident involving pushing between NYPD and protesters, then interviewed Darializa Avila-Chevalier, the Democratic candidate for New York's 13th Congressional District and a democratic socialist who ousted Rep. Adriano Espaillat. She discussed the shooting of Oscar Belgal (also spelled Belgal/Bergal), a 28-year-old Dominican national, while his 5-year-old son was in the car, described his ongoing custody in Brooklyn MDC with the bullet still in his body, criticized DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin's remarks blaming Belgal, and detailed her interactions at the scene questioning NYPD and federal agents' roles. The conversation covered ICE's plainclothes tactics, alleged failure to identify themselves, door-to-door inquiries, and her view that the incident exemplified why ICE must be abolished as an agency inherently enacting cruelty rather than enforcing civil immigration law.
Editorial Assessment
Viewer perception is heavily skewed toward viewing the shooting as unprovoked terror by an irredeemable agency, with the candidate's unchallenged assertions that agents violated basic procedures and that immigration is strictly civil (ignoring criminal warrants or detainers). Missing context includes DHS and NYPD accounts that Belgal refused orders, rammed two ICE vehicles, and accelerated toward officers, prompting seven shots; his documented criminal history including grand larceny conviction, probation, drug charges, and alleged gang ties; and that the child was unharmed. The segment's one-sided sourcing from the candidate and unnamed former prosecutors, plus loaded language like "concentration camps" and "enacting terror," presents a partisan activist narrative as fact. While some community confusion over plainclothes agents and questions about scene control are legitimate, the broadcast omits bodycam and surveillance details supporting the federal timeline and treats abolition as self-evident rather than a policy debate.
Key Moments
Oscar Belgal remains in Brooklyn MDC custody with the bullet still in his body
Confirmed by his lawyers and multiple outlets including amNewYork and NewsNation; he was moved from hospital to federal detention with a court hearing scheduled.
Plainclothes ICE agents failed to identify themselves, leading people to fear carjacking, and violated rules against engaging a moving vehicle
NYPD surveillance shows plainclothes officers approaching with guns drawn; DHS maintains they identified as ICE, but bodycam of shooting is unreleased and Reuters notes prior ICE accounts have been contradicted by video.
The incident shows ICE is enacting terror on communities and must be abolished, as it was created for cruelty rather than public safety
Opinion from the candidate; ICE was established in 2003 under DHS for immigration enforcement, and DHS described this as a targeted operation on a man with criminal history and prior evasion.
Mullin's statement blaming the father for knowing the child was in the car is asinine, especially for a targeted arrest
Mullin explicitly said agents did not know about the child; DHS timeline states Belgal refused to exit, rammed vehicles, and drove toward officers, justifying use of force independent of the child's presence.
HSI agents went door-to-door pretending to seek evidence but were actually gathering immigration information, and residents should demand warrants
Candidate's observation at the scene; federal agents may conduct canvassing post-incident, but no independent verification of deceptive intent was provided.
Notable Concerns
- Exclusive reliance on one political candidate's account without opposing viewpoints or primary footage of the shooting
- Unsubstantiated claims that ICE was created solely for cruelty and uses detention as concentration camps
- Omission of the suspect's criminal record and the official justification that he weaponized his vehicle
Sources Consulted
- What We Know About the Man Shot By ICE
- ICE SHOOTING: DHS defends agents firing on Oscar Bergal, but admits they didn’t know child was in car
- US immigration chiefs defend shooting of New York man, attack 'sanctuary' policies
- DHS officials defend their actions in shooting of NYC immigrant amid outcry
- What we know about the ICE shooting in NYC
- Darializa Avila Chevalier, a Mamdani Ally, Ousts Espaillat in Primary
- After ICE shot him, a NYC man’s lawyers couldn’t find him for hours
- ICE agents in Marble Hill shooting of Oscar Belgal 'not aware' 5-year-old child was in car: DHS