Politics & Government
ICE Agent Shoots Man While Arresting Brooklyn Immigrant: Report
The man was shot in the face but is expected to survive, according to the report.
BROOKLYN, NY – A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent trying to arrest a man under a deportation order in Brooklyn shot the target's brother, according to reports.
The federal officer was trying to walk the man out of a building on W. 12th St. in Gravesend about 8:15 a.m. on Thursday when the brother began to struggle with the agent and his partner, the New York Daily News reported.
The agent fired a shot which hit the brother in the cheek, the paper reported. Calls to the Department of Homeland Security were not immediately returned.
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The Daily News reported that the shot man was unarmed and surrendered to the agents after the incident.
“The person was lying on the floor with a towel on his head, bleeding profusely,” a witness told the newspaper.
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