Massive protests erupted in New York City on Thursday night after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot a father in the car with his young child in an incident Mayor Zohran Mamdani called ‘unconscionable.’

Hundreds of outraged residents flocked to the Marble Hill section of the Bronx chanting ‘Murderers!’ ‘F**k ICE’ and ‘ICE out of the Bronx’ following the shooting of an unidentified Dominican man at around 4pm.

In one heated exchange, more than a dozen people were said to have grabbed and pinned a masked ICE agent against a wall when he got too close to the police tape lining the street, the New York Daily News reports.

‘Take the mask off!’ the residents screamed, before the agent was saved by NYPD officers, who swooped in and pulled him back behind the police tape.

Protesters were also seen apparently blocking Homeland Security agents from responding to the scene. 

At least one protester was arrested, according to the New York Post. 

Amid the protests, Mamdani suggested he would reach out to President Donald Trump to force ICE agents out of the Big Apple.

Mamdani called the incident ‘unconscionable and incredibly serious’ in a post on social media as he announced his plans to get federal agents out of New York City.

‘I have called the President; when we speak, I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city,’ the mayor said. ”I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.’

Massive protests erupted in New York City on Thursday night after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot a father in the car with his young child

Protesters marched through the streets of the Bronx demanding ICE leave the city

Members of the NYPD were seen standing behind a barricade during a demonstration at New York Presbyterian Hospital, where the unidentified Dominican man was reportedly brought

Mamdani went on to say his ‘thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.’

‘Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children,’ the mayor concluded. ‘Abolish ICE.’ 

But, Mamdani said at a news conference Thursday night that his conversation with President Trump and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin was unsuccessful. 

‘What happened today was an outrage,’ he declared, calling ICE ‘rotten to the core.’ 

The agents had been in the Bronx on Thursday ‘conducting a targeted enforcement operation’ to arrest a noncitizen from the Dominican Republic with a prior criminal conviction for grand larceny and multiple other arrests for assault, robbery, possession of drugs and weapons possession when the shooting occurred, the Department of Homeland Security said.

The noncitizen victim also has associations with the Trinitarios gang, the same gang that was responsible for the killing of a Customs and Border Patrol officer last year,  officials noted.

‘This criminal illegal alien was arrested by the NYPD on December 7, 2023, but was released into the community a few days later by reckless Democrat sanctuary policies that put American lives at risk,’ the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement on social media.

‘When dangerous illegal aliens are released back onto the streets by radical sanctuary politicians, our officers are forced to make arrests at large in the community in unpredictable and dangerous environments,’ it continued. 

‘Our officers should not have to risk their lives, and innocent Americans should not have to face unnecessary danger, because sanctuary politicians refuse to cooperate with federal law enforcement.’ 

An unidentified individual was shot during an interaction with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in New York City on Thursday

The shooting involved ICE agents who fired at a man inside a vehicle at 2 Marble Hill Avenue. ICE agents are pictured in New Jersey in August

Police officers in New York City stood guard amid the massive protests Thursday night

In a statement Thursday night, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the shooting ‘an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation’ as he announced he was calling for ICE to end their operations in the Big Apple

Footage from the scene of the shooting obtained by the Daily News showed police officers carrying the wounded man from a silver SUV and putting him in the back of a black car, which sped off.

One man in a construction vest with a badge around his neck was also seen in the footage roaming the area holding a semi-automatic rifle to keep bystanders at bay.

The unidentified man is now in the hospital, where police officers said he is conscious and receiving medical attention. His wounds are not considered life-threatening, law enforcement sources told the New York Post. 

A five-year-old was also said to have been in the vehicle at the time of the shooting, but was uninjured.

A damaged SUV is pictured at the scene of a shooting reportedly involving ICE officers in the Bronx on Thursday

Bullet holes could be seen in the back of the SUV

Witnesses described how the neighborhood descended into chaos after they heard gunshots.

‘I only heard four shots, but I thought it was a car backfiring,’ one woman told ABC 7. 

‘I thought “No, that’s definitely gunshots,” so I ran to my window and all of a sudden I heard cops running, not walking down the streets, followed shortly thereafter by more cops and then more cops and ICE agents. Everybody was running,’ she recounted.

‘I think it’s horrifying.’

Another witness told the Post how he was shopping when someone alerted them to the shooting.

‘And then I came out and there was someone on the ground in handcuffs,’ he said. ‘There was a guy holding a gun up, looking around in case someone wanted to interfere. He was ICE.’

Homeland Security and the FBI are responding to the scene in addition to the NYPD. 

Law enforcement officers are pictured investigating the shooting Thursday evening

Homeland Security Investigations agents work at the scene of a shooting

New York City police officers apparently closed off the road following the shooting

The shooting comes just days after a coalition of West Bronx and Upper Manhattan officials sent a letter urging the owners of the Shops at Marble Hill to prohibit federal immigration agents from using the plaza’s Target parking lot as a staging area for enforcement activity. 

‘This is private property operated by or for Target, where our neighbors shop, work and bring their families,’ the lawmakers said in their letter on Monday, according to the Bronx Times.

‘In a borough home to hundreds of thousands of immigrants, our residents should not have to fear that their neighborhood shops are being used as a staging ground for immigration enforcement.’

The Target is located just across the street from where the shooting is said to have occurred.

Some local officials are now demanding an independent investigation into the shooting. 

Outraged residents gathered at the scene Thursday night to protest ICE’s presence in the city

It comes days after New York City lawmakers asked the owners of the Shops at Marble Hill to prohibit federal immigration agents from using the plaza’s Target parking lot

In a statement Thursday night, New York Governor Kathy Hochul said she was briefed about the incident.

‘We expect federal authorities to provide a full and transparent accounting of the circumstances surrounding this incident,’ she posted on social media.

‘New Yorkers deserve to know exactly what happened and why.’ 

She later posted online that she had spoken with President Trump and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin about the shooting.

‘I expressed outrage on behalf of New Yorkers and urged them to halt ICE enforcement operations in New York,’ she wrote. 

‘I also asked that any body camera footage of the shooting be released to the public so we can establish the fats and get to the truth.’ 

Congressman Adriano Espaillat also shared online that he was at the scene and speaking with police officers.

‘I am demanding all body camera footage and evidence to be preserved, a full investigation with full cooperation from the federal government and accountability,’ he said, arguing: ‘ICE is a rogue agency that must be reigned in.’ 

At a press conference on Thursday night, the congressman also shared that he had spoken with the family of the victim and they are left ‘shaken.’ 

But when he went to visit the victim in the hospital, Espaillat said he was not allowed in the room. 

Meanwhile, the New York City Council Progressive Caucus said it was ‘outraged by the horrific news that ICE agents have shot our neighbor, a fellow New Yorker in the Bronx.’

‘This is a terrifying, violent reminder of the immediate danger that the Trump regime poses to our city and our immigrant community,’ the caucus continued.

‘We must abolish ICE and hold those fascists accountable for the terror they are inflicting. We need ICE out of our city now.’

Murad Awawdeh, president and CEO of New York Immigration Coalition, added that: ‘ICE’s violent tactics are a clear danger to all New Yorkers, as today’s shooting in a residential neighborhood demonstrates.

‘This incident is another reminder of the unchecked, rampant violence ICE has been spreading throughout our communities,’ he argued.