Brenden Cuni, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) supervisor, has drawn attention online after a federal agent shot and wounded a man during an operation in New York City ’s Marble Hill neighborhood on October 8. The person shot was identified as Oscar Belgal .
The department confirmed that federal law enforcement agents were involved and stressed that NYPD officers neither participated in the incident nor were present when the shooting occurred. The New York Police Department said the shooting occurred at around 4 p.m. in Marble Hill, near West 225th Street.
Cuni is identified by New York Daily News as a supervisory detention and deportation officer with ICE. The report stated that Cuni was involved in a case where federal judge ripped ICE agents for giving false testimony to justify violent immigrant arrests. The man alleged that agents knocked him to the ground and that Cuni discharged the stun gun several times.
One lawsuit alleged that Cuni repeatedly used a Taser on a 21-year-old man during an arrest in the Bronx. The New York Daily News reported on October 6 that Judge Gary Brown questioned the government’s account and the handling of an arrest warrant.
The judge involved in the case had said, “Cuni attempted to reconcile these falsehoods by subsequently collecting the information, adding it to those systems and, after issuing the warrant, searching the databases again to ‘find’ him.”
