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ICE Arrest Sparks Chaos at Brooklyn Hospital - Here’s What Happened
Red State ^ | 05/04/2026 | Ward Clark

Posted on 05/04/2026 10:50:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Only a few short years ago, most of us would have deemed it unthinkable that an angry mob would turn out to impede the arrest of a career criminal with arrests for assault and drug-dealing in his rap sheet. But now, today, if that career criminal is an illegal alien, and if it is Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) that is doing the arresting, it seems that in any major city we can expect to see an angry mob show up to defend the criminal.

The latest example comes to us from Brooklyn, New York, where a riot broke out over the arrest of one Chidozie Wilson Okeke, a criminal illegal alien from Nigeria.

ICE agents dragged a man out of a hospital in New York City Saturday night ... all while chaos broke out in the streets outside due to a mob of livid protesters.

🎥 https://t.co/TuBHEGVATu pic.twitter.com/NjWsN9wOgD— TMZ (@TMZ) May 3, 2026

Now, here's the thing: Okeke wasn't arrested at the hospital.

Last night, @ICEgov conducted a targeted enforcement operation in Brooklyn that resulted in the arrest of Chidozie Wilson Okeke, a criminal illegal alien from Nigeria with previous arrests for ASSAULT AND CRIMINAL DRUG POSSESSION.

During his arrest, Okeke refused to comply with officers’ lawful commands to exit the vehicle and weaponized his vehicle to attempt to hit ICE officers. Okeke became physically combative attempting to punch and elbow ICE officers. Our officers followed their training and used the minimum amount of force necessary to make the arrest.

After his arrest, Okeke requested medical assistance, so ICE officers escorted him to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center for a medical evaluation. Okeke remained non-compliant during the medical evaluation throwing himself to the floor and screaming. The medical staff cleared him.

During the medical evaluation, a significant crowd of anti-ICE agitators gathered at the hospital and became violent. The protestors damaged several ICE vehicles and assaulted ICE officers, resulting in minor injuries to the officers. Assaulting law enforcement is a felony and crime

Officers from the New York Police Department responded to the scene and arrested several rioters. https://t.co/9lNyrELwHA— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) May 4, 2026

Homeland Security's X post reads in full:

Last night, @ICEgov conducted a targeted enforcement operation in Brooklyn that resulted in the arrest of Chidozie Wilson Okeke, a criminal illegal alien from Nigeria with previous arrests for ASSAULT AND CRIMINAL DRUG POSSESSION.

During his arrest, Okeke refused to comply with officers’ lawful commands to exit the vehicle and weaponized his vehicle to attempt to hit ICE officers. Okeke became physically combative attempting to punch and elbow ICE officers. Our officers followed their training and used the minimum amount of force necessary to make the arrest. 

After his arrest, Okeke requested medical assistance, so ICE officers escorted him to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center for a medical evaluation. Okeke remained non-compliant during the medical evaluation throwing himself to the floor and screaming. The medical staff cleared him.

During the medical evaluation, a significant crowd of anti-ICE agitators gathered at the hospital and became violent. The protestors damaged several ICE vehicles and assaulted ICE officers, resulting in minor injuries to the officers. Assaulting law enforcement is a felony and crime.

Officers from the New York Police Department responded to the scene and arrested several rioters.

The question is, what will happen to the rioters? What penalty will they face for interfering with federal law enforcement in the legal conduct of their duties?  In New York, it's a safe bet that the answer will be "little or nothing." As for Okeke, he's in federal custody, and he will presumably be repatriated once any federal charges he faces are resolved.


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What in the world are these people's priorities? Chidozie Wilson Okeke is a criminal, and not just due to his being in the United States illegally. Even setting his being an illegal alien aside, in what way has a person like Okeke ever contributed to the United States, to our culture, our economy, our way of life, our society, by his presence here? He's a career criminal. He has a rap sheet. The only good thing about his being an illegal alien, on top of all that, is that he can be dealt with quickly by sending him back to where he came from.

Meanwhile, ICE and DHS still have to deal with angry mobs, and it seems no illegal alien criminal is so nasty, so odious, so greedy, mean, and stupid, that these anti-ICE mobs, fueled by Stage IV Trump Derangement Syndrome, won't show up to protect them.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: brooklyn; ice; illegal; riot

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1 posted on 05/04/2026 10:50:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
What in the world are these people's priorities?

Resistance. This is Occupy/Antifa/BLM, etc. Same same. Democrat brownshirts.

2 posted on 05/04/2026 10:53:54 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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To: SeekAndFind

That boy used up his “due process”. Either deport or, better yet, shoot the knuckledragging scumbag. We don’t need his primitive, subhuman carbon footprint in America.


3 posted on 05/04/2026 10:59:50 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Remember, King Hakeem and his butt buddy, Schumer are still going to try to reopen the border.)
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To: SeekAndFind
***** Assaulting law enforcement is a felony and crime *****

I realize that this is a brave new world, but are there felonies that aren't crimes? I though felony was a type of crime, not a separate thing onto itself.

4 posted on 05/04/2026 10:59:54 AM PDT by Bernard ("Nothing is as expensive as that which the government provides for free." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: SeekAndFind

For a while, I could go into Walmart, Ross and other stores and never heard Spanish. Now it is everywhere and back to what it was. Again. Sometimes, I never even hear English in those stores.


5 posted on 05/04/2026 11:02:15 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: SeekAndFind

Prosecute them at the federal level if NY isn’t going to do it.


6 posted on 05/04/2026 11:05:20 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (RL)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

> For a while, I could go into Walmart, Ross and other stores and never heard Spanish. <

Same here. But the real threat is with the Muslims. I’m starting to see them more and more of them in my old mill town.

The Latinos come to America for many reasons. Some of those reasons are good, some are bad. But the Muslims come for one reason only: to conquer.


7 posted on 05/04/2026 11:09:39 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: SeekAndFind

A Mob of VERY VERY VERY stupid people


8 posted on 05/04/2026 11:10:52 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Those illegal aliens spend most of their time vomiting Spanish when in the Walmart toy departments looking for stuff to sell on ebay. Biden’s 20 million are totally worthless subhumans. They only came here to eat and shop on the Gringos’s dime and to run for Congress. The ignorant gringos stand there eating their road kill tacos and nachos while letting them do it.


9 posted on 05/04/2026 11:11:03 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Remember, King Hakeem and his butt buddy, Schumer are still going to try to reopen the border.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What in the world are these people’s priorities?


getting renumerated for professional protesting


10 posted on 05/04/2026 11:13:40 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Some people just enjoy watching the world burn.

And, they will do whatever they can by voting, encouragement or active participation to enable it.


11 posted on 05/04/2026 11:17:25 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

What state do live in?


12 posted on 05/04/2026 11:21:43 AM PDT by Destroyer Sailor (This Phone)
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To: SeekAndFind
Our officers... used the minimum amount of force necessary to make the arrest.

That's anything up to, but not to including, a fracture of the skull.
13 posted on 05/04/2026 11:22:02 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (YMMV)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Half the crap they are selling in our Walmarts is Mexican crap. There’s a new line to “Where have all the flowers gone?”. WHERE HAVE ALL THE AMERICANS GONE?


14 posted on 05/04/2026 11:22:38 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Remember, King Hakeem and his butt buddy, Schumer are still going to try to reopen the border.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Still no military/national guard to protect these heroes.


15 posted on 05/04/2026 11:23:30 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: SeekAndFind

Riot?
Riot Guns!


16 posted on 05/04/2026 11:23:35 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This TagliCanne CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Deem it unthinkable? With all the culturally incompatible people brought here in the last 40 years? Unless they aggressively step up enforcement this will only get worse


17 posted on 05/04/2026 11:24:12 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: ComputerGuy

18 posted on 05/04/2026 11:24:35 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: SeekAndFind
Officers from the New York Police Department responded to the scene and arrested several rioters.

I'll bet you dollars for donuts that all of the arrested rioters are both paid, and have priors arrests for similar behavior.

19 posted on 05/04/2026 11:25:38 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection you may achieve excellence - - Vince Lombardi)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

When I visit family in Massachusetts and go to a Walmart...ALL announcemets over the overhead speakers are in Spanish. No English.


20 posted on 05/04/2026 11:27:51 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection you may achieve excellence - - Vince Lombardi)
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