New York, NY — State Senator Julia Salazar, Chair of the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction, released the following statement yesterday: 

“The NYPD, the NYS Police and other New York law enforcement agencies must protect New Yorkers from the violent actions of ICE officers and other federal officers. If an ICE officer assaults a New Yorker, that officer must be arrested and prosecuted by state and local authorities."

"Assaulting someone is a crime in New York State. It is no less a crime because the violent attack is undertaken by a law enforcement officer, whether that is a correction officer, an NYPD officer, or a federal officer. Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins recently made clear that if federal officers engage in unlawful excessive force in San Francisco, local authorities can and will arrest them. I call on New York's law enforcement and political leaders to publicly make the same commitment to uphold the law. New Yorkers have the right to expect our law enforcement officers to enforce the law."