Watch: NYC Anti-ICE Agitators Finally Hit With Large Batch of Arrests - Were Protesting Rescue of 5-Year-Old from Illegal Drug, Gang Suspect
About 14 anti-ICE protesters were arrested Wednesday after they shut down the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge, blocking traffic to protest federal agents who shot an illegal alien drug dealer with gang ties while his 5-year-old son was in the car.
🚨WATCH: Chaos on the Brooklyn Bridge as anti-ICE protesters block traffic and call for ICE to leave New York City.
Some protesters also demanded NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch be fired. Police say officers issued multiple warnings before taking demonstrators into custody. 👇👇👇👇— America Reports (@AmericaRpts) October 28, 2026
The demonstrators sat in the roadway, chanting and waving banners that read “STOP SHOOTING US” and “STOP SHOOTING OUR NEIGHBORS.”
The blockade backed up traffic until police cleared the bridge and reopened all lanes shortly before 1:30 p.m., according to WABC.
WPIX reported that the protest was a response to the recent ICE shooting in Marble Hill.
Over a dozen anti-ICE protesters arrested after blocking Brooklyn Bridge traffic: police sources https://t.co/r40DfJ9tgf https://t.co/20b3MkSVar
— New York Post (@nypost) October 28, 2026
That incident involved Oscar Belgal, a 28-year-old illegal alien from the Dominican Republic.
An ICE agent fired multiple rounds into Belgal’s vehicle after he accelerated toward officers who had tried to box him in.
Belgal was hit in the neck; the child in the backseat was unharmed.
The Department of Homeland Security described Belgal as a criminal illegal alien and an associate of the Trinitarios gang. He had been free on supervised release after being indicted on multiple counts of selling fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine to an undercover officer, and he already had a prior conviction for grand larceny, the New York Daily News reported.
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Agents had attempted to arrest him weeks earlier, but Belgal successfully fled. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said force was necessary after Belgal escalated by trying to drive into the officers.
Journalist Oliya Scootercaster posted a video on X of the Brooklyn Bridge blockade, showcasing the line of protesters that caused a traffic jam.
BREAKING: MASS ARRESTS on Brooklyn Bridge after Anti-ICE protesters SHUT DOWN all entrances on Manhattan side, backing up traffic for miles. https://t.co/Qmg5sVBcqI
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) October 28, 2026
NOW: Drivers REACT as Anti-ICE Protesters block ALL Entrances to the Brooklyn Bridge on Manhattan side. https://t.co/Jv3lc71oev
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) October 28, 2026
The protesters’ priorities are clear. They are objecting to the removal of an illegal alien who was selling hard drugs while free on supervised release, who had already fled ICE once, and who then tried to run over federal officers with his 5-year-old son in the backseat.
That child was removed from the situation and placed with relatives.
For the demonstrators, protecting the drug dealer and gang associate from consequences matters more than the danger the boy was placed in.
Anti-ICE protesters shut down the Brooklyn Bridge today, sitting in the road and chanting “NYPD, KKK, ICE, they’re all the same” while traffic backed up for miles. About 30 of them blocked every entrance on the Manhattan side, and police took about 13 into custody. Working people trying to get to their jobs got stuck in it so these activists could make a scene.
And who were they demanding be released? Oscar Belgal, an illegal alien from the Dominican Republic. According to the criminal complaint, in 2023 he pointed a gun at two people in his car and said “give me your jewelry or I will shoot you.” He pleaded down to a lesser larceny charge and got one month in jail and probation. Then in August 2025 he was arrested again for allegedly selling fentanyl, cocaine and heroin, and that case is still open. New York ignored ICE’s request to hand him over. When ICE finally went after him this month, officials say he drove his SUV into two agents, with his 5 year old son in the back seat, and an agent shot him.
Mayor Mamdani called this man “a New Yorker.”
Oscar Belgal is not a New Yorker, he is a dangerous illegal!
This is what sanctuary policies get you. A man with a gun robbery on his record gets turned loose again and again, and these protestors blocking the bridge are fighting for him instead of for the families he put in danger.See the link to the article in the comments.
— sandym (@Sandy1Texas) October 28, 2026
New York’s sanctuary policies continue to limit cooperation with ICE.
The facts about Belgal have not changed: he is an illegal alien with gang ties, serious drug charges, and a record of resisting arrest.
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