{"id":776771,"date":"2026-05-06T07:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/776771\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T07:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:32:22","slug":"advocates-question-nypds-role-in-immigration-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/776771\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocates question NYPD\u2019s role in immigration enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn after an immigrant they arrested needed medical attention.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-ICE protesters gathered outside, leading the police to be called to try to calm a chaotic scene.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s a violation of the city\u2019s sanctuary city laws.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani is pushing back, saying no coordination occurred between ICE and the police.<\/p>\n<p>Murad Awawdeh, the president and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition, joined NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on \u201cInside City Hall\u201d Tuesday to discuss more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[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\u2019s the piece and we\u2019ll call it what it is, it was crowd control. But to what extent does crowd control equal collusion?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn after an immigrant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":776772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,40910,7448,40909,40911,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,13570,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-776771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-inside-city-hall","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-inside-city-hall-segments","12":"tag-inside-city-hall-shows","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa","28":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116526471325961764","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}