rowd of protesters at Foley Square.

Chair of the Manhattan Democratic Party Kyle Ishmael, 41, said he's  marching because we are a country and a nation, a city and a state of immigrants. 

7 Belgal was shot in his car in Marble Hill while Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were trying to nab him over his alleged ties to a blood-thirsty gang. Obtained by the NY Post

 That's what we do as New Yorkers until we abolish ICE,  Ishmael said, adding that  no one deserves to be shot. Especially when they're in their car with their five year old child. 

Mayor Zohran Mamdani slammed the shooting of  a New Yorker by ICE agents in Marble Hill  at a late-night press conference Thursday.

But Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin pushed back at Hizzoner's description of Belgal as a  New Yorker. 

7 Mayor Zohran Mamdani slammed the shooting of  a New Yorker by ICE agents in Marble Hill  at a late-night press conference Thursday. Kevin C. Downs for NY Post

 You're going to call that a New Yorker?! I think that's a far cry,  Mullin said Thursday.

Mullin said that Belgal  was known to be affiliated with  the Trinitarios, a violent street gang that started as a protective band of Dominican inmates at Rikers Island in the early 1990s and has since grown into a multinational crime empire with footholds in the Bronx and upper Manhattan.

7 But Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin pushed back at Hizzoner's description of Belgal as a  New Yorker.  Getty Images

The NYPD confirmed to The Post that Belgal has two prior arrests in the city - one for robbery in 2023, in which he pleaded guilty to fourth-degree grand larceny and received five years' probation, and one for criminal sale of a controlled substance in 2025, which is still pending.

Federal officials said Beglal had a detainer on him and was out on probation.