![The protesters demanded that the NYPD stop cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and called for the release of Oscar Belgal from federal custody. Belgal, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, was shot by an ICE agent in Manhattan's Marble Hill neighborhood on Oct. 8 while sitting in his car with his son in the back seat. "We will not stand by while our neighbors and children, our mothers and brothers, are shot in the streets, terrorized as they go to school, feed our country, and care for our sick," Climate Defiance organizer Nate Smith said. "We will not pretend we aren't at the epicenter of a colonial power that harvests other countries' resources and burns those resources, collapsing the climate [...] The 28-year-old father of two is being held in solitary confinement at the MDC in Sunset Park where protestors say his condition is deteriorating because the bullet is allegedly still lodged in his neck.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HWEHZYqbsAAYueY.jpg?name=small&format=webp)
ALT The protesters demanded that the NYPD stop cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and called for the release of Oscar Belgal from federal custody. Belgal, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, was shot by an ICE agent in Manhattan's Marble Hill neighborhood on Oct. 8 while sitting in his car with his son in the back seat. "We will not stand by while our neighbors and children, our mothers and brothers, are shot in the streets, terrorized as they go to school, feed our country, and care for our sick," Climate Defiance organizer Nate Smith said. "We will not pretend we aren't at the epicenter of a colonial power that harvests other countries' resources and burns those resources, collapsing the climate [...] The 28-year-old father of two is being held in solitary confinement at the MDC in Sunset Park where protestors say his condition is deteriorating because the bullet is allegedly still lodged in his neck.


















