Protests broke out in New York City after a man from the Dominican Republic was shot and wounded by federal immigration agents during an arrest, drawing crowds into confrontation with officers. Altercations broke out in front of a Bronx hospital that Thursday evening, hours after a man with a gunshot wound to the neck had been brought in for treatment.

Calls for the removal of border enforcement and immigration agents from local streets drew several hundred people to the area outside the medical facility. Chants of "No justice, no peace" rose from the gathering as portions of the crowd moved against the police barriers, with officers and demonstrators pushing against one another at the line. News outlets reported that a number of individuals were taken into custody.

According to a Homeland Security statement — issued by the agency that oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement — the gunfire occurred along Marble Hill Avenue at around 4 PM that Thursday afternoon. The statement said shots were discharged by federal agents during an attempt to take a person into custody — someone who had been inside a vehicle carrying a child in the back. No account was offered of what may have led up to the gunfire.

According to DHS records, the man — aged 28 at the time — had one prior conviction for grand larceny on his record, along with a history of arrests spanning assault, robbery, drug-related offences, and weapons charges. The person injured in the incident was reported to be in a condition that doctors considered non-fatal. A boy of around five, reported to be the man's son, came through the episode without injury.

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced plans to contact President Donald Trump, calling for a halt to Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the city and stating in a post on X that he would not remain passive while federal agents carried out enforcement actions in local communities. In a written post, he called for the elimination of ICE.

Protesters called for immigration enforcement agencies to withdraw from residential communities, for enforcement agents to be barred from operating within hospital premises, and for agents to be kept away from schools and children. Calls for the removal of Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel from residential areas were also voiced by advocates opposed to the agency's local operations.

Mamdani, who described himself as an immigrant proud to call the city home, told those gathered that enforcement actions of this kind leave the city's roughly three million migrants uncertain about their safety and sense of belonging. He made those remarks after arriving at the location.

Separately, the New York incident follows one in Austin, Texas, within the past month, where a Venezuelan man was struck by gunfire from federal immigration agents while making a food delivery from his vehicle. Assault charges against an officer were subsequently filed against the individual.

Calls from within the Democratic Party to dismantle ICE have grown louder in the weeks following January protests over the deaths of two US citizens shot by federal immigration agents in Minnesota. Tom Homan — the White House official responsible for border enforcement — defending ICE and its operations before an audience the previous month, conveyed that agency personnel had accepted the reality of public hostility directed at them. The group has stated its intention to remain in place.