NYC Comptroller And Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander Arrested While Impeding ICE Outside Court

Posted • June 17, 2025: A New York City mayoral candidate was arrested in a chaotic skirmish outside a federal immigration court on Tuesday. NYC Comptroller Brad Lander demanded to see a warrant and was taken into custody for impeding the arrest of a suspected illegal alien by ICE agents. 🚨 City comptroller Brad Lander was arrested by ICE agents outside a federal immigration court. Lander repeatedly insisting on seeing a judicial warrant as immigration agents took the man into custody—his hand firmly placed on the detainee’s shoulder the entire time. Don’t come between Democrats and their beloved illegal aliens. We're sensing a pattern of Democrats who are causing public spectacles. These are all calculated stunts. The goal seems to be to make look ICE seem like they are out of control by arresting Democrats… …but Democrats are doing illegal things. Just stay frosty and watch the details. They want “martyrdom shot”. 🙄

They are trying to get arrested. Trump getting arrested helped him; they think it will help them. It's gonna back fire too. Challenge: what have Dems done that is not a political stunt/theater? Go. —— The theater kid party seems to revel in these staged events. They’re just not very good at pulling them off. Democrats think they are above the law - it’s almost as if they think they’re kings or something. “I broke the law and got arrested, this is fascism” — every Democrat said. “Arresting me for assauIting federal officers is unconstitutional!” (…)

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