Federal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn after an immigrant they arrested needed medical attention.
Anti-ICE protesters gathered outside, leading the police to be called to try to calm a chaotic scene.
But advocates and some elected officials say the police crossed a line when they assisted ICE agents in taking the suspect out of the hospital. They claim that’s a violation of the city’s sanctuary city laws.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is pushing back, saying no coordination occurred between ICE and the police.
Murad Awawdeh, the president and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition, joined NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on “Inside City Hall” Tuesday to discuss more.
“[The] NYPD did not pre-coordinate or pre-plan the detention of the individual, but they did, in essence, support to an extent post-detention. I think that’s the piece and we’ll call it what it is, it was crowd control. But to what extent does crowd control equal collusion?” he said.
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