NYC Mayor Faces Radical DSA Pressure to Oust Police Commissioner After Lawful ICE Operation
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The Democratic Socialists of America are demanding Mayor Zohran Mamdani fire Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, accusing the NYPD of supporting ICE after a justified law enforcement action in Marble Hill.
The New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is once again attacking law enforcement, this time demanding Mayor Zohran Mamdani remove Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents shot and arrested a 28-year-old man in Marble Hill on Thursday night. The DSA, notorious for its anti-police stance, accused the NYPD of 'aiding' ICE agents and claimed that officers mistreated unruly protesters who gathered at the scene, insisting the mayor punish Commissioner Tisch for simply doing her job.
"ICE is a terrorist agency that must be expelled from New York City and abolished," the DSA outrageously claimed in a press release, threatening that Tisch must end NYPD cooperation with ICE or be dismissed, despite ICE's vital role in upholding federal law.
Mayor’s office spokesperson Dora Pekec responded responsibly, stating there are no plans to replace Tisch and that the administration will review the events of the past 24 hours. Another spokesperson, Sam Raskin, noted that ICE’s convoy left the hospital at a high speed, but this was in the context of a dangerous situation.
The incident involved ICE agents shooting Oscar Belgal while he was in a car with his five-year-old son; Belgal was taken into custody and held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. DSA co-chair Grace Mausser cited social-media video showing police officers moving bystanders aside as an unmarked vehicle left, a standard and necessary procedure for public safety.
The DSA has a history of attacking Commissioner Tisch’s tough-on-crime policies, including the enforcement of low-level offenses, the use of a gang database to combat organized crime, and the deployment of the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group (SRG). NYPD spokesperson Brad Weekes clarified that the SRG was not involved in Thursday’s protests, and former NYPD deputy commissioner Richard Esposito explained that police road-clearing is standard to ensure federal agents’ safety.
Democratic congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, a close ally of the mayor, echoed the DSA’s radical demands for Tisch’s resignation and the disbanding of the SRG. The mayor has not publicly commented since a late-night phone call with Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and President Donald Trump regarding the detained individual.
This episode marks the most direct confrontation yet between the mayor and the DSA, the far-left group that helped elect him, as they continue their relentless campaign against law enforcement and public safety in New York City.