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White House Called New York City To Arrest The Man ICE Had Just Shot
By BSN Staff, . BSN Network. Satire.
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The Department of Homeland Security, following an incident in which one of its agents shot a man named Oscar Belgal in the Marble Hill neighborhood of the Bronx, contacted Mayor Zohran Mamdani's office to request that the New York Police Department arrest Oscar Belgal.
The shooting had occurred minutes earlier. Oscar Belgal was, at the time of the call, still Oscar Belgal.
Sources familiar with the conversations described a series of phone calls between the mayor and Trump administration officials in which DHS made clear that it considered the NYPD's next step to be handcuffing the man federal agents had just put in the hospital. City officials refused, explaining that the New York Police Department cannot legally arrest a person for the crime of having been shot by a federal agency, a position that reportedly required more than one phone call to convey.
"The city's position," said a senior official close to the mayor, "was that we are not going to arrest someone because you shot them. That was essentially the whole argument. We said it several times."
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said the request reflected the administration's commitment to "complete enforcement outcomes," which is a phrase that was used without any apparent awareness of what had just happened in the Bronx.
President Trump, reached for comment through a post on Truth Social made forty minutes after the calls concluded, described Mamdani as "a radical open-borders obstructionist who refuses to clean up crime," which is one reading of a mayor who declined to arrest a shooting victim, and also the other reading.
Representatives for ICE confirmed that an agent discharged a firearm at Belgal during what they described as an enforcement operation. They did not address whether the sequence of events, specifically the part where they created the situation and then called someone else to resolve it, had been discussed internally.
Legal scholars contacted on Thursday noted that the request, if followed, would have established a novel principle in American law: that being shot by the government constitutes probable cause for arrest by a different part of the government.
"It's efficient, in a way," said one constitutional attorney who asked not to be named because she was still processing the premise. "You generate the suspect and the evidence in the same incident. The paperwork practically writes itself."
The NYPD did not arrest Oscar Belgal.
He had been shot.
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