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Mayor Mamdani Orders NYPD Use-of-Force Review After Shooting

By Drooid · Oct 14, 2026, 2:53 PM UTC · How we work

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Funding Police Oversight

ICE agents shot 28-year-old Oscar Belgal in his Marble Hill car, wounding his neck while his five-year-old son sat in the back on Thursday.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani allocated $2.6 million to the NYPD Office of the Inspector General to strengthen accountability.
Progressive activists and mayor’s base have pressed for NYPD accountability and reforms after the shooting.
Progressive leaders urged disbanding the NYPD Strategic Response Group, citing its aggressive protest tactics.

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Detectives Back Tisch

ICE agents shot 28-year-old Oscar Belgal in the neck while he was in car at Marble Hill, Bronx, on Thursday, with five-year-old son in back.
Mamdani praised Tisch’s record, saying her tenure produced the lowest ever number of murders and shootings in New York City history.
Detectives’ Endowment Association president Scott Munro said detectives back Tisch.
Mamdani ordered a full NYPD use-of-force review after hospital protests.

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Mayor Halts ICE

ICE agents shot 28-year-old Oscar Belgal in his Marble Hill car, injuring his neck while his five-year-old son sat behind him on Thursday.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he spent two hours speaking with President Donald Trump and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin to try securing Belgal’s release.
The mayor will retain Commissioner Jessica Tisch, citing her crime-reduction record.
He called ICE ‘ripping families apart’ and will end its NYC operations.

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Historical Context

The 1999 Diallo shooting, where four NYPD officers fired 41 rounds, killing Diallo and leading to a $3 million settlement and the 2002 disbanding of the Street Crime Unit, set a precedent for calls for federal-local oversight that echo in today’s ICE shooting of Oscar Belgal and Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s $2.6 million funding for an NYPD Inspector General.

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Funding Police Oversight

ICE agents shot 28-year-old Oscar Belgal in his Marble Hill car, wounding his neck while his five-year-old son sat in the back on Thursday.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani allocated $2.6 million to the NYPD Office of the Inspector General to strengthen accountability.
Progressive activists and mayor’s base have pressed for NYPD accountability and reforms after the shooting.
Progressive leaders urged disbanding the NYPD Strategic Response Group, citing its aggressive protest tactics.

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