New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday night that he would seek to remove Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from the city after federal officers shot a man inside a vehicle carrying a five-year-old child.

The shooting took place shortly after 4 p.m. in the Marble Hill neighborhood of the Bronx.

Video obtained by the New York Daily News showed police removing the wounded man from a silver SUV before placing him in a black vehicle that quickly left the scene.

The unidentified man was taken to a hospital and was conscious while receiving treatment, according to police. His injuries were not considered life-threatening, law enforcement sources told the New York Post.

A five-year-old child was reportedly inside the SUV when the shots were fired. The child was not hurt.

Mamdani described the episode as “unconscionable and incredibly serious” in a social media post, where he also outlined plans to push federal immigration 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 wrote.

“I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities,” Mamdani added. “Our 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,” Mamdani said. He ended his statement with: “Abolish ICE.”

Several elected officials called for an independent investigation during a Thursday night news conference, saying key details about the events leading to the shooting remained unclear.

Law enforcement sources familiar with the case told NBC New York that an ICE team had been searching the neighborhood for a man with a criminal history. A senior official said the person sought had previously been arrested for robbery, had a grand larceny conviction and faced an open drug case.

According to PIX 11, the man who was shot was not the person ICE agents had been trying to locate.

Scene video showed police officers pulling a man from the silver SUV and placing him in handcuffs as armed federal agents surrounded the vehicle.

The footage also showed a man wearing a construction vest and a badge around his neck moving through the area with a semi-automatic rifle, apparently working to keep bystanders away.

Images taken after the shooting showed a large police response, with officers appearing to close off portions of the roadway.

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. 

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But some outraged residents have since flocked to the corner following the shooting, chanting ‘Murderers!’ ‘F**k ICE’ and ‘ICE out of the Bronx,’ the Daily News reports. 

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.

‘Take the mask off!’ the residents screamed, according to the Daily News.

The agent was then 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. 

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.

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

‘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.’ 

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. 

The Daily Mail has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, for comment. 

California’s largest state employees’ union is moving ahead with a strike threat, sharply escalating its long-running dispute with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration over wages, benefits and remote-work policies. The walkout could disrupt some government services.

SEIU Local 1000, which represents roughly 100,000 state workers, said Thursday that 96.2% of members who voted support a one-day strike on October 21. The planned walkout would take place before Newsom leaves office in January and could delay basic services Californians depend on.

“State workers have spoken loud and clear,” union President Anica Walls said in a video message. SEIU Local 1000 said the strike is being organized in response to what it described as the state’s “bad-faith bargaining.”

In California’s capital, striking workers will hold demonstrations outside the California Department of Human Resources, the Secretary of State building, the Department of Education’s May Lee Complex, the Department of Motor Vehicles headquarters and the Resources Building, Walls said.

The union’s website lists additional strike lines outside government buildings in Oakland, Fresno, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Norwalk and San Bernardino.

Residents could face delays at DMV facilities as well as state unemployment and disability insurance offices, Walls said.

The contract dispute could affect any service delivered by state employees, including operations involving Caltrans and the State Department of Food and Agriculture, according to the Porterville Recorder.

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If it takes place, the October 21 walkout would be the first strike in the history of the massive union.

SEIU Local 1000 last held a strike vote in 2016, but the sides reached a labor agreement just days before workers were scheduled to walk off the job.

“It is an important step that state employees are taking,” Walls told CalMatters. “They’re exercising their right to hold the line and say, we deserve to be respected, paid and protected for the work that we do.”

The conflict centers on the union’s accusations that the Newsom administration has negotiated in bad faith. The two sides remain divided over pay and working conditions, including Newsom’s refusal to reverse a return-to-office order that triggered an angry response from state employee unions.

The union’s previous contract expired on June 30, and a replacement agreement has not yet been reached.

A spokesperson for the California Department of Human Resources told The Post that “CalHR remains ready to sit down anytime with the union to negotiate a fair and responsible agreement.”

“The state remains focused on protecting the critical and essential services that Californians rely on,” the department added.

The Post left a voicemail with SEIU Local 1000 seeking additional information about the potential impact of the strike.

A person was wounded Thursday afternoon in a shooting connected to an encounter involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the Bronx, according to information shared with News Media.

The incident unfolded at about 4 p.m. in the Marble Hill section of the Bronx, the New York Police Department (NYPD) reported on X.

NYPD officials said the wounded person was transported to a nearby hospital and remained conscious while receiving treatment.

Authorities had not immediately released the person’s name or provided details about the severity of the injuries.

The NYPD said none of its officers were involved in the shooting, and police were not at the location when the gunfire occurred.

An NYPD spokesperson said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is leading the investigation. The spokesperson referred further questions to federal officials.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she was briefed on the shooting Thursday and urged federal authorities to publicly explain the events surrounding it.

“We expect federal authorities to provide a full and transparent accounting of the circumstances surrounding this incident,” Hochul wrote on X. “New Yorkers deserve to know exactly what happened and why.”

ICE and DHS representatives did not immediately reply to News Media’s requests for comment.

Investigators have not said what led to the shooting, identified the person who fired the weapon or confirmed whether the injured person was the target of a federal law enforcement operation.

An Ohio firefighter and emergency medical technician has been awarded $1.7 million after suing her former boss, whom she regarded as a father figure, over alleged sexual harassment and abuse.

Rebekah Huskey-Archacki, 35, filed a lawsuit in 2023 against fire chief Kent Johnson, 68, accusing him of groping, repeated sexual assaults and harassment. The allegations included obscene text messages, including one about placing face masks down her pants.

Johnson received a six-month jail sentence in the criminal case. Huskey-Archacki was awarded $1.7 million in a settlement reached at the Henry County Courthouse in Napoleon, Ohio, roughly 45 miles southwest of Toledo.

Her attorney, Subodh Chandra, said Huskey-Archacki faced “broader retaliation and efforts to undermine the investigation,” ultimately forcing her out of the career she had dreamed of. She resigned in 2024.

According to the complaint, Huskey-Archacki had known Johnson since she was seven and considered him a second father.

The complaint said Johnson frequently called her his “sweet, beautiful, special Emma,” a reference to his granddaughter, while Huskey-Archacki often addressed him as “dad.”

Huskey-Archacki worked as a firefighter and EMT for the City of Port Clinton fire department until Johnson reassigned her, against her wishes, to serve as his personal secretary.

After Huskey-Archacki gave birth in 2021, court filings say Johnson made a series of inappropriate advances. He allegedly asked whether he could watch her pump breast milk, rubbed her back and shoulders, and told her that her breasts “look amazing.”

The original complaint also alleged that Johnson repeatedly requested sexually explicit photos, called Huskey-Archacki to ask what she was wearing, and made sexual comments about her feet when she wore open-toed shoes at work.

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Huskey-Archacki further alleged that Johnson took her phone without her knowledge, located private images showing her partially or fully exposed, and copied the pictures to his own device without permission.

According to court documents, Johnson used his phone’s camera to save the images and then uploaded them to cloud storage, making them accessible from other devices. Investigators with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations recovered the photos.

BCI investigators also discovered images of women breastfeeding in Johnson’s Google Drive account, supporting Huskey-Archacki’s claim that his comments about her breastfeeding carried a sexual meaning.

Video footage shown in the case indicated that Johnson gave multiple false accounts of how he obtained the images and why he had them.

Court records said Huskey-Archacki repeatedly told Johnson she did not want a romantic or sexual relationship with him. She also tried to avoid provoking him because she feared losing her job.

Huskey-Archacki resigned on May 27, 2024. 

Johnson pleaded no contest to five misdemeanors and a felony in April 2025, according to The Toledo Blade. 

According to the outlet, Johnson will pay the city a restitution fee of $4,000 in four installments. 

A Wisconsin congressional hopeful has been arrested after allegedly launching a profanity-laced, anti-Israel tirade at an Israeli father whose young son was riding in the car. Police say the confrontation began after the candidate noticed a bumper sticker criticizing Hamas.

Matthew Arndt, 54, allegedly cut off the 41-year-old driver Thursday morning in Mequon, a Milwaukee suburb. He reportedly made an obscene hand gesture and shouted at the man before stopping at a gas station, where the father followed and began recording the encounter.

“Is there something you want to tell me?” the father asked as the exchange began.

Arndt allegedly responded by calling him a “f—king piece of s—t” and a “f—king traitor,” while pointing at the motorist.

“Why are you saying that?” the father asked.

“You’re a f—king Israel f—king traitor! F—k you! F—k Israel! Go f—k yourself!” Arndt allegedly shouted.

Police said Arndt was arrested later Thursday and booked on a disorderly conduct allegation enhanced as a hate crime.

As the confrontation continued, Arndt reportedly challenged the father to publish the video online.

“Go ahead and put it on social media. I’m running for Congress in the 6th District, and f—k Israel! Go f—k yourself!” he allegedly yelled.

“Wait, you’re running for Congress?” the stunned father asked.

Arndt allegedly continued: “F—k the Israel lobby! F—k the neocons!”

When asked to identify himself, he reportedly replied, “Free Palestine! Matthew Arndt.”

The father responded sarcastically, “You’re a great guy. I’m definitely going to vote for you.”

The Israeli immigrant, who has lived in the United States for roughly 12 years, told The Post that the incident unfolded while he was taking his young son to school.

“I was driving my son to school this morning. Someone was behind me. I have an Israeli flag sticker that says ‘F—k Hamas,’ which, as far as I understand, is a terrorist organization designated by the United States,” he said.

He said the sticker appeared to anger the other driver, who eventually pulled alongside him, lowered his window, began shouting and gesturing, and seemed to try to force him out of his lane.

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Because his young son was sitting in the back seat, the father said he attempted to avoid escalating the situation and kept as much space as possible between the vehicles.

“My son was in the back seat, so I tried to keep away from him. I followed from a distance, photographed the license plate, and then pulled into the gas station when he stopped,” he recalled.

“I don’t know why I did it, but I went in with my camera recording and asked, ‘Hey, what’s going on?’ The rest is captured in the video,” he said.

The father said he did not know Arndt’s identity or political plans until the candidate disclosed both during the heated exchange.

“The first thought that comes to mind is, even if I disagree with someone, I would never want someone that acts like this to run for congress,” he said.

“Even if he and I don’t hold the same opinion, that’s fine, but that was violent. That was very aggressive and violent, and obviously having my son in the back seat, it was definitely uncomfortable for him,” he said.

“He was getting nervous in the back seat.”

The father insisted his bumper sticker was directed solely at Hamas, not Palestinians.

“It doesn’t go against the Palestinians. I have nothing against the Palestinians. I definitely have an issue with an organization that wants the Jews dead,” he said.

Arndt, a certified public accountant and investment adviser, is running for Wisconsin’s 6th Congressional District on a Green Party platform, which includes breaking up monopolies, providing Medicare for All and severing US ties with Israel.

His campaign website, titled “End the Cartel,” calls for an overhaul of the political establishment and vows to take on powerful interests in Washington.

“I’m not here to ‘restore norms’ or ‘reach across the aisle’ or have ‘the courage to compromise’ just to preserve a corrupt system,” Arndt declares on the site.

The website also touts religious tolerance, declaring that America belongs to people of all faiths, including Jews and Muslims.

“America is for all of us—or it is not America at all. And any politics that teaches us to hate each other is not patriotism. It is poison,” the site proclaims.

However, the Green Party has taken a major anti-Israel stand across the world. The party in the UK voted to adopt a measure the treats Zionism — support for the Jewish state of Israel — the same as bigotry, including racism.

Arndt did not respond to a request for comment.