An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer-involved shooting in New York last week sent Democratic politicians scrambling to the nearest camera to issue thunderous denunciations. Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who used the occasion of Columbus Day to promote a fellow communist, referred to the supposed victim in the incident as a “New Yorker.”

In fact, he was an illegal immigrant from the Dominican Republic with a significant criminal history beyond his unlawful presence in the Big Apple. He was shot as he rammed officials with his car while trying to flee authorities — which he’d already successfully done on a previous occasion. Here are a few details on this new leftist cause celebre (emphasis added):