Mamdani faces backlash after NYPD aids ICE at Brooklyn hospital

Community members in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, spontaneously protested the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center last week.

In response, the New York Police Department (NYPD), overseen by police commissioner and billionaire heiress Jessica Tisch, attacked and arrested protesters, clearing the path for ICE operations. This collaboration between NYPD and ICE directly violates New York City’s sanctuary laws and has led to a wave of denunciations of Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

According to reports, federal immigration agents brought Nigerian immigrant Chidozie Wilson Okeke to Wyckoff hospital for medical assistance for injuries sustained during ICE’s violent arrest. In a video of the arrest that has circulated on social media, Okeke is tasered in his car and screams, “Somebody help me! They are killing me!”