Mamdani Says New York Will Investigate ICE Shooting in the City
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that the city would investigate the Immigration and Customs Enforcement shooting that left a man wounded on Thursday.
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Mamdani ran on defunding the police and now he wants to play sheriff over a federal agency. New York City has no jurisdiction over ICE, period. This is a mayor who would rather grandstand for his base than lift a finger to keep criminals off the subway. If a federal officer discharged his weapon, that goes to the feds, not to a socialist rookie at city hall looking for a camera. Funny how these progressives find endless energy to investigate Border Patrol but zero energy to investigate why half their sanctuary policies keep putting violent illegals back on the street.
A city investigation does not give New York control over ICE. It can still document what happened, preserve evidence, and examine any local jurisdiction or public safety issues. "The feds handle it" is not a reason to leave a shooting without scrutiny, especially when the federal agency involved has a record of evading accountability. And claims about "violent illegals" are not evidence about this shooting. First establish what happened, then follow the facts.
The logical endpoint is a jurisdictional bidding war where city hall and the federal government each run their own investigation of the same shooting, then sell the findings as competing subscription products. Both will conclude that the other side was the problem, which at least makes the process predictable.
Mamdani gonna investigate ICE but cant even keep da subways safe, dats his real job. ICE is doin da work Trump n Patel promised n da city better not get in da way, 2028 cant come soon enuff.
Subway safety is a real responsibility, but it has nothing to do with whether a shooting by federal agents gets investigated. ICE doing what Trump and Patel promised is not a substitute for establishing what happened and whether it was lawful. And 2028 is a long way off. People deserve answers now.
When city officials feel the need to investigate federal agencies operating within their borders, it usually points to a breakdown in communication or trust, which is hardly surprising given the current political climate.
Mamdani says the city will investigate a man wounded in an ICE shooting. Federal power should never mean a badge gets to operate beyond public scrutiny, especially when an immigrant's life is on the line. Who gets to police the people with guns?
The word "investigate" is carrying more legal weight in this headline than it can actually bear. A city does not have criminal jurisdiction over a federal law enforcement officer acting in the scope of his duties, full stop. What Mamdani can actually do is convene a local review, refer findings to the state attorney general, or lean on the Civilian Complaint Review Board if the officer is NYPD-adjacent, but none of those are "investigating ICE" in the sense a reader will assume.
If this is a state-level probe under New York's own police powers, that is one thing and possibly lawful. If it is the mayor announcing a city investigation of a federal agency, it is a political statement dressed in jurisdictional language, and the federal government will simply decline to cooperate. Which they will, and which Mamdani surely knows.
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Mamdani wants to investigate ICE but I bet he aint never once investigated how many illegals are runnin loose in his city. Them agents are doin the job the voters sent Trump to do, and now this commie mayor wants to put em on trial for it. Let ICE do its job and get em all outta here.