WATCH: Dramatic Footage Shows ICE Confrontation With Illegal Gang Member Before NYC Shooting

The NYPD has released body-cam footage showing the moments after an ICE agent shot a man in NYC. Read more and see the latest on the investigation at the link in the bio pic.twitter.com/SrxOazwIwd

— PIX11 News (@PIX11News) October 9, 2026

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The Dominican Republic native shot by ICE agents in The Bronx was a migrant with an alarming rap sheet — who apparently benefited from New York’s lax bail and sanctuary laws, allowing him to remain on the streets, according to sources and court records.

Oscar Belgal, 28, is believed to have entered the US illegally around 2022, robbed someone at gunpoint in Fordham Heights a year later, allegedly sold dangerous drugs within months of his conviction in 2025 and was even allegedly connected to a violent street gang.

None of that stopped Mayor Zohran Mamdani from referring to Belgal as “a New Yorker” in a raging tribute Thursday against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement — a label some Bronx locals took offense to.

“I don’t consider him a New Yorker,” fumed Bronx mom Migdalia Martinez, whose 12-year-old son Jacob Freytas was killed in gangland crossfire while riding his bike in July.

“The only thing I do consider him as is trash, nothing else but trash. And I don’t consider New York, my home, as trash,” she told The Post Friday.

Asked if Mamdani was wrong to call Belgal a New Yorker, Martinez said: “The mayor is wrong in many ways — that’s definitely one.”

Martinez’ son was tragically struck by a stray bullet in Mt. Eden, known Trinitarios territory, and authorities said they suspected the vicious gang was involved in the violence.

US Department of Homeland Security officials have said the same gang was involved in the July 2025 shooting of an off-duty CBP officer at Fort Washington Park — and that they were investigating alleged links to Belgal when they approached him Thursday.

Security footage showed plainclothes ICE agents rushing Belgal’s parked car in Marble Hill at around 4 p.m. with guns drawn, before he peeled away, and out of the view of the CCTV cameras.

Marcos Charles, the head of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division, said Belgal “accelerated” at the agents, “smashing” into two of them.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin confirmed the ICE agents were wearing body-worn cameras, but the feds didn’t immediately release the footage.

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NOW: DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin is BLOWING UP on Ugandan Mayor Mamdani calling for abolishing ICE after yesterday's shooting involving a criminal alien

"We arrest thousands, weekly, that are criminals and HE turns a blind eye to it and won't even stand up for his own NYPD… pic.twitter.com/KqwKmuc7xt

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 9, 2026

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NOW: DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin is BLOWING UP on Ugandan Mayor Mamdani calling for abolishing ICE after yesterday’s shooting involving a criminal alien

“We arrest thousands, weekly, that are criminals and HE turns a blind eye to it and won’t even stand up for his own NYPD officers, that by the way, protect HIM every single day!”

“You’re going to call that a New Yorker?! I think that’s a far cry. He said that ICE is rotten to the core. REALLY? When men and women at ICE each day are enforcing the laws that HE refuses to enforce!”

“He said he wants to abolish ICE. Well, Mayor, if you abolish ICE, who’s going to take your criminals off the streets of your own town? Who’s going to take the m*rderers and the thieves and the gangbangers? ”

“Who’s going to take them off the streets because YOU are not allowing NYPD officers to do it and they want to!”

Perfectly said.

NO CAVING TO MAMDANI.

According to DHS, the guy who got shot is an illegal alien from the Dominican Republic with a grand larceny conviction and arrests for assault, robbery, drugs and weapons, and he has ties to the Trinitarios gang

Mamdani tried to get him RELEASED

That’s who he’s fighting for. Not the NYPD, not regular New Yorkers

Mullin is 100% right!

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A federal judge on Friday barred the government from deporting a man shot by an ICE agent in Manhattan with his 5-year-old son in the back of his car.

The Department of Homeland Security said 28-year-old Oscar Belgal was an undocumented immigrant with a long history of run-ins with police.

Authorities said ICE agents were trying to detain Belgal at about 4 p.m. Thursday when agents opened fire, striking him in the neck in the Marble Hill neighborhood.

Immigration advocates filed a petition to block his deportation, which a federal judge approved.

“Regardless of whether or not someone has a criminal history, it is not lawful, it is not okay, to shoot a father in the afternoon with his son in the backseat. That is not how we resolve legal disputes in this country. We resolve them in buildings like these, in courtrooms,” said Harold Solis, a lawyer with Make the Road New York who is representing Belgal.

Belgal was booked into MDC-Brooklyn on Friday after he was transported from ICE custody in Newark, New Jersey, according to a federal prosecutor.

“He remains in pain. He told us he still has a bullet in his body,” said Paige Austin, another lawyer with Make the Road New York who is representing Belgal.

The 5-year-old boy in the back of the car was not injured. He is with his mother, according to a lawyer.

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