🇺🇸 ICE Streetside Shooting Fallout

DHS said ICE officers were conducting a targeted enforcement operation in New York City around 4 p.m. Thursday for a Dominican national with a prior grand larceny conviction. NYPD identified the wounded man as Oscar Belgal, 28. Police said at least one federal agent fired 7 rounds, striking him in the neck, while his 5-year-old child was in the car. He was hospitalized in stable condition.

The facts point to a federal dragnet that looked more like improvised street action than disciplined enforcement. Plainclothes agents, masks, a long gun, shattered glass, and 7 shots around a child do not signal control. Washington keeps selling interior enforcement as precision, but botched operations in major cities only deepen mistrust while proving how brittle and chaotic the system really is.

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